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| Date: | 11 16 1949 |
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| Description: | Patrick Page, dressed as Captain Kidd, peers at Geraldine Ellis' signboard representing the story of "Homer Price," a literary character who made a signboa... |
| Date: | 05 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Professor Ruth B. Glassow house at 1635 Norman Way, showing a desk, chair, and a bookcase. The house had been a barn on the estate of ... |
| Date: | 01 13 1950 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Don Dickinson of 114 East Mifflin Street, World War II veteran, with his three-year-old daughter Linda Sue seated in his lap. Mr. Dickinson is ... |
| Date: | 02 01 1950 |
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| Description: | Three Central High School students gather at a table to study for final semester exams. A women's pair of ice skates are on the table. They are, from left,... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Madison Public Library. The library opened in 1905 and was funded by a $75,000 gift from Andrew Carnegie. Reverse of cardboard mountin... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Madison Public Library. The library opened in 1905 and was funded by a $75,000 gift from Andrew Carnegie. Reverse of cardboard backing... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Madison Public Library, circulation desk. Cardboard backing reads: "1913, Main Loan Desk." A large group of women in winter coats and ... |
| Date: | 04 07 1950 |
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| Description: | The six finalists in the recent Nakoma School contest to pick a champion for the city finals of the State Journal's Badger spelling bee look up misspelled ... |
| Date: | 04 12 1950 |
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| Description: | Barbara North of 1003 Jenifer Street, the spelling champion of the Madison Lutheran School, sits at a desk while reading a newspaper. A dictionary lies ope... |
| Date: | 04 19 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Willie Lou Harris of 405 Bram Street sits at left with part of her family. Standing left to right are Mrs. James (Georgia Harris) Elvord, Mr. and Mrs.... |
| Date: | 06 16 1980 |
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| Description: | Circuit Judge Michael Torphy, presiding over the murder trial of Barbara Hoffman. |
| Date: | 06 01 1950 |
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| Description: | A book on Girl Souting by a Wisconsin author is presented to Mary Rennebohm, wife of Governor Oscar Rennebohm, for her Wisconsin library. Pictured during t... |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | The playground director from the board of education's recreation division reads a story to children at the Wirth Court playground during storybook hour. |
| Date: | 09 05 1950 |
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| Description: | Three Marine reservists check over reading materials for their trip to the West Coast for active duty. They are: Pfc. D.K. Cartter, 1817 Kendall Avenue,Cor... |
| Date: | 10 03 1950 |
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| Description: | Two Madison pledges of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority, Carolyn Piper (left) and Betty Klein, pose for a portrait. |
| Date: | 10 11 1950 |
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| Description: | Three members of the Madison Business and Professional Women's Club, which is celebrating National Business Women's Week, look at a shelf of books. They ar... |
| Date: | 06 27 1978 |
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| Description: | Wayne Dillabaugh, left, poses with Jack McManus. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | A young girl, Dorothy Hubbard, sits on a hardwood floor surrounded by pillows and reads a book. Next to the girl a large house plant grows in a pot, and a ... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | An interior view of the Wisconsin State Treasurer, Sewell A. Peterson, home on South Fairchild Street. The photograph is taken looking through the parlor a... |
| Date: | 10 08 1950 |
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| Description: | Sydney S. Miller, manager of the Madison Social Security Office, shares a 1950 government-issued booklet explaining a program to employers of household wor... |
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