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| Date: | 08 24 1934 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist. |
| Date: | 05 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Janette Serrec, lecturer and writer on the "Fine Art of Successful Living," standing beside a Hawthorne bicycle from Ward's. She is wearing jodhpurs and bo... |
| Date: | 05 22 1933 |
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| Description: | Janette Serrec, University of Wisconsin graduate, lecturer and writer on the "Fine Art of Successful Living," standing beside a Pontiac automobile she drov... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Lutie Stearns, copied from 'The Echo' of 1922, the Milwaukee Normal Annual. |
| Date: | 03 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Charles B. (Chuck) Seals, with pipe, a 25 year-old handicapped shut-in, who is a painter, a sculptor, a student and omnivorous reader, a fisherman, a swimm... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Author Alex Haley and actor LeVar Burton visit the grave of Haley's ancestor, the slave Kunte Kinte, in Spottsylvania County, Virginia. In the television ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Cartoon drawn by Clare V. "Dwig" Dwiggins depicting himself and August Derleth. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Writer and conservationist Wallace Stegner, and his wife Mary, during a visit to Alaska as a member of the National Parks Advisory Board and special assist... |
| Date: | 03 30 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Joe Mercedes of Rhinelander, Wisconsin. He was the Executive Director of the Wisconsin Tourist Bureau and publisher of at least 23 editions of ... |
| Date: | 01 26 1956 |
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| Description: | Family portrait of Humbert and Marie Versace with their four children. Colonel Versace, a West Point graduate, is senior advisor for the Wisconsin National... |
| Date: | 04 28 1956 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Cockefair sit for a portrait while holding the book "The Story of You" that they authored. |
| Date: | 09 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Three women are attending an autographing tea at Graham's Book and Stationary Store, 3238 University Avenue. They are, left to right: Helen Fairchild, Hele... |
| Date: | 12 01 1961 |
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| Description: | Front cover and menu listing from a party given on the occasion of Rex Stout's 75th birthday, with a drawing of Stout's head by Austin Briggs, who illustra... |
| Date: | 04 30 1961 |
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| Description: | Ethel Parker, center, holds the Writer's Cup which she was awarded for outstanding work in communications at the annual Ladies of the Press breakfast. Ethe... |
| Date: | 03 1965 |
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| Description: | The caption with this photograph reads: "Dr. Walter Peterson (right), professor of history at Lawrence University, Appleton, with F. Gerald Ham, Wisconsin ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Zona Gale reading for WHA radio station. She is sitting at a table looking down at a script. |
| Date: | 11 30 1964 |
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| Description: | James B. Conant, author of books on American education, speaking at a press conference at the end of a two-day visit to the U.W. campus, praised the U.W. t... |
| Date: | 09 02 1965 |
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| Description: | Lloyd Besant, author of a "Happening" and president of the Village Playhouse that will produce it, is shown discussing his script with Donna Zegarowicz (le... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Angela Lobo-Cobb is sitting sideways in a chair in front of a desk at a window. She is looking down at papers in her hands. On the desk is a typewriter. Tw... |
| Date: | 06 13 1975 |
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| Description: | A man is looking at a copy of E.E. LeMasters' book, Blue-Collar Aristocrats, at a book signing party at the Club Tavern. The author is holding the b... |
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