Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 20

Photograph

Modern 1970s "Pad" Furnished in Plexiglas

Date: 1971
Description: "Modern" 1970s style room with "love" design, white vinyl chairs, flowered coffee mugs and Plexiglas furnishings. Includes a stack of records with "The In ...
Photograph

School Project

Date: 04 22 1967
Description: Two junior high students work on a project that requires making a vocal recording.
Photograph

Couple Looking at Record

Date: 11 10 1963
Description: A couple that used a "couple computer" that matched preferences choose a record.
Photograph

Language Lab Reel-To-Reel Tape Machines

Date: 02 18 1959
Description: Language teachers listening to foreign languages on tape decks at an institute for public school language teachers at Mount Mary College.
Postcard

Alice in Dairyland

Date: 1948
Description: A crowd surrounds a 10-foot mechanical mannequin of Alice in Dairyland at an Alice display for the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The Alice could raise h...
Photograph

IH Truck Dealer Sleeping with Dormiphone

Date: 1959
Description: International Harvester truck dealer Vern Netteschiem listening to recorded truck specifications while he sleeps. The Dormiphone was a clock-controlled tap...
Photograph

Public and Human Relations Workshop

Date: 
Description: Public and Human Relations workshop at Highlander Library: second from left, Bill van Guill; on right, Myles Horton; third from left, Catherine Winston; be...
Photograph

Zilphia Horton Playing Her Accordion

Date: 
Description: Zilphia Horton playing her accordion at a meeting of the Food and Tobacco Workers Union. On stage behind her is a "Farmers Union" sign with a graphic logo.
Photograph

Martin Luther King, Jr. at Wage Policy Conference

Date: 10 1957
Description: Martin Luther King, Jr., during his appearance at the United Packinghouse Workers of American Wage-Policy Conference. With him are Russell Lasley (left), ...
Photograph

U.W. Houses Nursery and Play School

Date: 07 30 1951
Description: Six children are sitting on a canvas with Mrs. Ralph Huitt while listening to a record at U.W. Houses Outdoor Nursery and Play School. Children include Cyn...
Photograph

Chiang Kai Shek Press Conference

Date: 
Description: Chiang Kai Shek during a press conference shortly after his arrival in Taiwan. Seated beside him is Madame Chaing Kai Shek and standing is reporter Cecil B...
Photograph

Interviewing Madame Chiang

Date: 
Description: Cecil Brown, a reporter for the Mutual Broadcasting System, recording an interview with Madame Chiang Kai Shek.
Photograph

Music Store

Date: 
Description: Interior view of a music shop with phonographs, violins, phonograph records displayed on the wall, and wax cylinders lining a shelf.
Photograph

Sound Booth Operator

Date: 1931
Description: The mixer in a sound booth talks to actor Ramon Novarro and director Jacques Feyder as they record dialogue for the film "Son of India."
Photograph

Bellafonte and Obey

Date: 04 1987
Description: Singer Harry Bellafonte, then the ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) testified on behalf of the fund before the House Appropriation...
Photograph

Robert Doyle

Date: 1945
Description: Robert Doyle, Journal war correspondent, took his wire recorder aboard the battleship Wisconsin while it was part of Admiral Halsey's 3rd fleet off ...
Photograph

Will Ferderer Calling Square Dance

Date: 05 01 1989
Description: A man is speaking into a microphone in the foreground, while several people are dancing in the background. Caption reads: "The Clover Leaf Squares, a Menom...
Photograph

Electronic Instruments

Date: 07 18 1978
Description: From left to right, Stu Baker and Gregory Patrick Garvey are working at a synthesizer panel, while Serge Ossorguine is playing electronic drums. There are ...
Photograph

Practice Job Interview

Date: 03 13 1968
Description: A woman and a man are sitting at a table. The woman is speaking into a microphone. A tape deck in the foreground is connected to a television. Caption read...
Photograph

Brooks Memorial Union Mixer

Date: 09 17 1954
Description: Two women and two men are looking at a pile of vinyl record albums. Caption reads: "Foreign students were among guests of honor at a mixer at Brooks...

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: