Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 81-100 of 816

Photograph

Memorial Day Parade

Date: 05 31 1954
Description: Children lining the street for the Memorial Day parade around Capitol Square.
Photograph

Chitwood-Billings Wedding

Date: 06 12 1954
Description: Marion Chitwood and Leroy Billings exiting St. James Church after their wedding. The couple is met with guests throwing rice in the air.
Photograph

Memorial Day Parade

Date: 05 31 1954
Description: Firing Squad of the 520th Air Defense Group at the Memorial Day parade around Capitol Square. The servicemen are aiming their rifles in the air as children...
Photograph

Reading Outside Dudgeon School in Summer

Date: 06 11 1954
Description: The book, Days of Adventure, being read aloud by Hadi Pankow and Randy Sumner as other boys and girls follow along. The group is sitting on stone st...
Photograph

Backyard Bloom of Pink Day Lilies

Date: 06 25 1954
Description: Matt Berschens shows off blooming day lilies at their peak in his back yard at 17 North Mills Street. The lilies are planted in pedestal container pots and...
Photograph

Reading Outside Dudgeon School in Summer

Date: 06 11 1954
Description: Pupils reading Days of Adventure outdoors: Lucy Hobbins, Dennis Curran and Carlton Enger.
Photograph

Police and Firemen's Show

Date: 07 28 1954
Description: Firemen practice demonstrating the rescue of people from a burning building with an aerial ladder. They are preparing for the Police and Fireman's show at ...
Photograph

Reading Outside Dudgeon School in Summer

Date: 06 11 1954
Description: Teacher Mrs. Gertrude Wilson is sitting outside in the shade and reading to her pupils. She is sitting in a chair on a sidewalk across from the children wh...
Photograph

City Hall Outing

Date: 07 11 1954
Description: City Hall Outing hostess, Alderwoman Ethel Brown (left) is shown laying out a picnic meal with help from Mrs. Norman Moll and Mrs. Lawrence McCormick. The ...
Photograph

Sail Boat Rescue on Lake Mendota

Date: 06 13 1954
Description: Robert Risser, Jr., of 3806 Hammersley Road, on duty watching for boaters in distress on Lake Mendota from the U.W. Lifesaving Services lookout. He is usin...
Photograph

Reading Outside Dudgeon School in Summer

Date: 06 11 1954
Description: Student Joan Woerdehoff with her hand raised, ready to answer her teacher Gertrude Wilson's question. Other students behind her are shown searching their b...
Photograph

Tenney Park Locks Activity

Date: 07 04 1954
Description: Locktender Earl Wood swinging open the heavy lock gate for a speedboat operator passing through the lock on the Yahara River at Tenney Park. A sign above t...
Photograph

Sail Boat Rescue on Lake Mendota

Date: 06 13 1954
Description: Boat rescue crew member, James Crary, is dashing down the pier from the U.W. Lifesaving Services facility to board the rescue boat," Isabel III," to help a...
Photograph

Tenney Park Locks Activity

Date: 07 04 1954
Description: Boaters and fishermen on the Yahara River moving into Lake Mendota just after the water reached exit level at the Tenney Park lock.
Photograph

Maple Bluff Country Club Golf Lessons

Date: 07 09 1954
Description: Man squatting down pointing to a golf ball in a sandtrap at Maple Bluff Country Club, instructing a woman to how to hit it. There are several onlookers beh...
Photograph

City Hall Outing

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: City Clerk A.W. Barels (left), City Attorney Harold Hanson, and Alderman Norman Moll are shown singing at Alderwoman Ethel Brown's picnic.
Photograph

Sail Boat Rescue on Lake Mendota

Date: 06 13 1954
Description: View across water towards the U.W. Lifesaving Services rescue boat, "Isabel III," with Captain Harvey Black at the helm speeding to assist a distressed boa...
Photograph

City Hall Outing

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: Alderman George Reger and Mayor George Forster (right) loading up their plates at the outing. Mayor Foster is dishing up food that is sitting behind an ena...
Photograph

Trick Golf Shots

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: Photograph of Brad Walrath to make a composite image that was published in the newspaper of him holding an enlarged golf club in a sand trap at Maple Bluff...
Photograph

City Hall Outing

Date: 07 14 1954
Description: Police Chief Bruce Weatherly assists his wife, Inez, in the serving line at the city officials and staff picnic hosted at Alderwoman Ethel Brown's summer h...

Have Questions?

If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.

Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: