Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 40

Photograph

Captain Bong and Governor Goodland

Date: 12 27 1944
Description: War hero Capt. Richard I. Bong, of Poplar, Wisconsin, credited with knocking out 21 Japanese planes in the South Pacific, shaking hands with Governor Walte...
Photograph

Display of German "War Junk"

Date: 08 05 1945
Description: Display of German "war junk," including fire arms and clothing, exhibited at the East Side Business Men's Festival. The souvenirs on display were collected...
Photograph

Display of German "War Junk"

Date: 08 05 1945
Description: Display of German "war junk," including fire arms, clothing and a German Nazi flag, at the East Side Business Men's Festival. The souvenirs displayed were...
Photograph

Group Listening to V-E Day Radio Commentary

Date: 05 08 1945
Description: Two women and three men (one in uniform) gathered around a table listening to a radio commentary on V-E (Victory in Europe) Day.
Photograph

Joe McCarthy as Best Man

Date: 06 1945
Description: Joseph R. McCarthy in his Marine uniform acting as best man at the wedding of his best friend (and later campaign manager), Urban Van Susteren, at Syracuse...
Photograph

Victor Morris in Uniform

Date: 1917
Description: Army engineer Victor Morris (standing), of Milwaukee, with H.H. Smith. Photographs and correspondence documenting his experiences during training in the Un...
Photograph

Advanced Trench Digging

Date: 07 17 1917
Description: ROTC engineers, probably at Fort Sheridan, in training for trench construction. Victor Morris of Milwaukee, in whose wartime album this photograph appears,...
Photograph

Roadside Scene with Japanese Women

Date: 1945
Description: A military truck with men in uniform is on a road near three Japanese women and a small child who are sitting on the grass on the roadside. Two of the wom...
Photograph

USS Relief Surgery

Date: 04 1945
Description: View of the gloved hands of a pair of surgeons as they begin to operate on a patient in Japan. One person is holding a scalpel over a portion of an exposed...
Photograph

Sailors Moving Boxes of Human Blood

Date: 04 04 1945
Description: Two men working together to move a box marked "Human Blood" at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, Japan. They are aboard a tank landing ship pontoon float. One man is w...
Photograph

Flight Nurse with Her Father

Date: 1943
Description: Flight nurse Gwen Jensen is posing with her father, during her last hours before leaving U.S. soil at Alameda Navy Landing Strip. She is sitting close to h...
Photograph

Flight Nurses Look for Luggage

Date: 1943
Description: Flight nurses, newly arrived in Agana Airport, Guam, searching for their luggage as two other women are looking on. The two flight nurses have just complet...
Photograph

Group of Soldiers with Dog

Date: 04 05 1954
Description: Soldiers in Ishikowa, Okinawa resting on top of a truck with a dog. This photograph was taken hours after Ishikowa (population 400) fell. The marines, dres...
Photograph

Trainees Set Dynamite Charges

Date: 12 1942
Description: Trainees at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School setting dynamite charges outdoors in Panama. The men are wearing brimmed hats and uniforms. One crouching ma...
Photograph

Trainees Demolish a Bridge

Date: 12 1942
Description: Trainees at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School, Panama, gathered around a wooden bridge they are rigging with dynamite charges. The men are wearing fatigue...
Photograph

Soldier with Submachine Gun

Date: 1942
Description: A soldier from the 14th Infantry points a submachine gun at the camera. He is laying on his stomach with tall grass around him. He is wearing fatigues and ...
Photograph

Soldier Stacking Ammunition

Date: 1942
Description: A soldier stacks ammunition for a coastal gun in Panama near a stone wall. The soldier is being handed a case of ammunition. He is wearing a helmet and pan...
Photograph

Trainees at Outdoor Lecture

Date: 1942
Description: Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School trainees gathered for an outdoor lecture. The men are all wearing helmets and fatigues, with some carrying submachine gu...
Photograph

Soldiers During Barbed Wire Training

Date: 1942
Description: Two men posing during a training exercise on cutting barbed wire at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School, Panama. The men are on their stomachs crawling thro...
Photograph

Soldiers Cutting Barbed Wire

Date: 1942
Description: Two male soldiers wearing fatigues cutting barbed wire during a training exercise at Rio Hato Infantry Artillery School in Panama. The men are on their bac...

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: