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| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | A group of Fond du Lac women sews clothes for a Civil Works Administration project in 1934. The CWA was an emergency program that lasted from November 1933... |
| Date: | 11 06 1946 |
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| Description: | Joseph R. McCarthy in the home of friends Urban and Margery Van Susteren of Little Chute, on the morning after his election to the U.S. Senate. Van Sustere... |
| Date: | 10 26 1945 |
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| Description: | The silver service, which was a gift of the State to the USS "Wisconsin," on display during the presentation ceremony. |
| Date: | 02 10 1934 |
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| Description: | A Civil Works Service employee with a check and equivalent in groceries. |
| Date: | 04 17 1907 |
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| Description: | Large group of men sitting and posing at long dining tables in the Club House of International Harvester's McCormick Works factory. The men are attending t... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Betty Sullivan, a Red Cross worker, serves coffee in the interrogation room at Kobler Field, Saipan, for a B-29 flight crew that had just returned from a b... |
| Date: | 03 31 1937 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Lions Club members seated around tables in the Neighborhood House, 768 W. Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 12 20 1933 |
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| Description: | Governor Schmedeman presenting Christmas basket provided by the Volunteers of America to Mrs. Catherine Schwartz and daughter, Frances. Captain George Lawt... |
| Date: | 11 29 1933 |
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| Description: | A table and chairs are laden with rows of Thanksgiving baskets prepared by the Volunteers of America for distribution to needy families. |
| Date: | 11 29 1933 |
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| Description: | Volunteers of America volunteer handing out a Thanksgiving food basket. |
| Date: | 09 30 1930 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. at the La Follette Farm in Maple Bluff. There is a spinning wheel beside him on the right near a bookcase. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Irvine Lenroot, a leader in the La Follette-Progressive wing of the Republican Party in Wisconsin, with Belle Case La Follette and Mary La Follette at Mapl... |
| Date: | 11 22 1947 |
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| Description: | Buffet table for State Hotel Manager's convention, featuring ice carving of the State Capitol building. Taken in the Blue Room at Park Hotel, 22 South Carr... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Mayor Carl Zeidler of Milwaukee and Mayor Leo J. Promen of Fond du Lac at the Wisconsin State Fair. Zeidler is sipping Coca-Cola from a bottle and Promen i... |
| Date: | 08 02 1971 |
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| Description: | Site of a demonstration by Lac Courte Oreilles Chippewa against the Northern States Power Company dam on the Chippewa Flowage, Sawyer County. There is an A... |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John Wise), Wisconsin's first woman Secretary of State, posing in the kitchen cooking. |
| Date: | 01 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin's new Secretary of State, Glenn M. Wise, pours coffee for her husband, John E. Wise, Sr., who is an electrical engineer with the state Industrial... |
| Date: | 04 26 1944 |
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| Description: | Group of women surrounding a serving table at the Silver Tea, benefiting the YWCA at the Governor's residence, 130 E. Gilman Street. |
| Date: | 07 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Madge Goodland, wife of Governor Walter Goodland, displaying a quilt with a patriotic design. |
| Date: | 10 01 1944 |
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| Description: | Officers of the Wisconsin Business and Professional Women's Club attending a tea at the Governor's Residence, 130 E. Gilman Street. Left to right around th... |
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