Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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Description: | Fred Boyle, clerk at the post office, looks overwhelmed surrounded by a mountain of Christmas parcels to be sorted for shipment overseas to men and women i... |
Date: | 07 1941 |
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Description: | A man is driving an automobile in a field near two buildings, perhaps outhouses. |
Date: | 07 28 1941 |
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Description: | Charlie Spencer (b.1873?), a Kentuckian who migrated to Crandon, recorded white spirituals for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas. He is sitting in a ch... |
Date: | 08 31 1946 |
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Description: | Fiddle player Emil Boulanger played for dances since he was a boy. He played entirely by ear, and on a violin which he made himself. He was born in Dyckesv... |
Date: | 12 27 1944 |
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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... |
Date: | 1944 |
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Description: | A man works on an armature at Fuller & Johnson, 52 North Dickinson Street. Fuller&Johnson produced war material during World War II. |
Date: | 11 24 1944 |
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Description: | A football player stands on scale weighing in at 183 lbs. A second player is standing nearby. |
Date: | 1944 |
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Description: | Instructor on the wing of a biplane talking with an airman trainee in the cockpit of a plane during flight training at Truax Field during World War II. |
Date: | 05 08 1945 |
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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. |
Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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Description: | Two men processing hemp in a DeForest plant for use as cord and rope during World War II. The men are feeding hemp into a rolling machine which crushes the... |
Date: | 1923 |
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Description: | Tire blowouts were a frequent hazard of early automobile travel. |
Date: | 01 05 1945 |
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Description: | Nakoma Welfare League's traditional Twelfth Night Party at Nakoma School. Admiring the snowman table decoration are Mr. & Mrs. William F. (Marguerite) Grim... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | A group of farmers listening to a talk by an agricultural extension representative (probably the man on the left). |
Date: | 06 1945 |
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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... |
Date: | 07 18 1944 |
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Description: | Dozens of boys at Camp Wakanda on the north shore of Lake Mendota watch rescue work on an airplane which has crashed into the lake near shore. Tom Langloi... |
Date: | 07 04 1913 |
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Description: | Indian "Powwow" and Lacrosse contest between various Indian reservations. |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Army engineer Victor Morris (standing), of Milwaukee, with H.H. Smith. Photographs and correspondence documenting his experiences during training in the Un... |
Date: | 07 17 1917 |
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Description: | ROTC engineers, probably at Fort Sheridan, in training for trench construction. Victor Morris of Milwaukee, in whose wartime album this photograph appears,... |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | A group of Rotarian tourists pose next to their tour bus in England. Joseph Jackson of Madison, the tall man in the back row wearing a hat, was a national... |
Date: | 12 10 1943 |
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Description: | Former mayor James R. Law hands the gavel to his successor, F. Halsey Kraege, who was elected by the common council to fill the unexpired term for Law who ... |
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