Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 86

Photograph

Ethel Anderson, Linotype Operator

Date: 08 31 1955
Description: Ethel Anderson at the linotype machine in the composing room of Madison Newspapers Incorporated.
Photograph

Jeanne DeBarr, Forsberg Box Company Employee

Date: 02 01 1945
Description: Jeanne DeBarr, a blind employee working at Forsberg Box Company, with her dog.
Photograph

Patient in Wisconsin General Hospital Hallway

Date: 02 08 1945
Description: Patient being wheeled past laundry baskets and lockers in overcrowded Wisconsin General Hospital basement hallway.
Photograph

Modern Furniture Shop Upholsterer

Date: 02 08 1945
Description: An upholsterer at Modern Furniture Shop, 2111-19 Atwood Avenue, restores an antique chaise longue. W.E. Schmidt is the owner of the shop.
Photograph

Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac Picnic

Date: 07 28 1945
Description: Group portrait of RMR employees at a picnic.
Photograph

Family Service Agency

Date: 05 04 1949
Description: Mrs. Margaret Mentzner, a fulltime employee of the Family Service Agency, is shown caring and cooking for two small children whose mother is sick and absen...
Photograph

University of Wisconsin Medical School Program

Date: 06 27 1949
Description: University of Wisconsin Medical school and the State Department of Public Welfare have started a program of mutual-help. Dr. Walter J. Urben, superintenden...
Photograph

Summer Vacation Jobs for Youth

Date: 07 11 1949
Description: Ronnie Kurth, a recent graduate of East High School, has a summer job of making fruit-flavored Popsicles and ice cream bars at Schoep's, 514 Division Stree...
Photograph

Ground-Breaking Ceremony for Addition to Wisconsin General Hospital

Date: 08 09 1949
Description: State and University of Wisconsin officials join in ground-breaking ceremonies for additions to the Wisconsin General hospital. left to right: Governor Osc...
Photograph

First Staff of Oakwood Village Lutheran Home

Date: 10 23 1949
Description: Three of the first staff members of the Oakwood Lutheran Home on Mineral Point Road stand side by side. Left to right: Mrs. A. Staehling, matron; Mrs. O.D....
Photograph

Walgreen Employee Honored

Date: 11 15 1949
Description: Robert A. Knoll (left) receives a gold watch in honor of his 25 years of service with Walgreen Drug Stores. It is being presented by E.A. Rintelmann. Mr. K...
Photograph

Birthday Party for a Madison Businessman

Date: 12 06 1949
Description: A group gathers for a portrait around a table at the Park Hotel during the birthday dinner of Madison businessman Louis Hirsig. Seated at the dinner table ...
Photograph

Rennebohms Moving to New Governor's Residence

Date: 12 13 1949
Description: Sixteen employees of the Rennebohm Drug Company carry miscellaneous furnishings from the old executive residence to the new one in Maple Bluff. The "moving...
Photograph

Park Hotel Employees Party

Date: 01 04 1950
Description: Alfred Ellickson and Alfred Randall playing violin and guitar, while Adolph, standing at right, is holding a lighter up to a large cigar held in the guitar...
Photograph

Teen Summer Jobs

Date: 08 09 1950
Description: Charlene Schaefer, East High School 1950 graduate, is shown operating the telephone switch board at Lake View Sanatorium.
Photograph

Teen Summer Jobs

Date: 08 09 1950
Description: Peggy Huiskamp, soon to be a Wisconsin High School senior, holds a tray of cookies at her summer job at Langdon's Home Bakery and Delicatessen on State Str...
Photograph

Teen Summer Jobs

Date: 08 09 1950
Description: Sherwyn Woods, 1950 Wisconsin High School graduate, is shown spending his third consecutive summer as an employee of the Rennebohm Drug Company.
Photograph

Gisholt Employees Donate to Good Neighbor Fund

Date: 09 16 1950
Description: Caroline Genske, an office worker at Gisholt Machine Company, starts the process of check writing for the nearly one hundred percent participation of the c...
Photograph

Madison General Hospital Auxiliary

Date: 01 02 1951
Description: Catherine Coleman, standing right, chair of the Madison General Hospital Auxiliary Memorial Fund, showing her card file to Grace Crafts, hospital administr...
Photograph

Red Cross Blood Bank Drive

Date: 12 13 1951
Description: Dane County Highway Department employees line up to donate blood during the annual Red Cross blood bank drive. Left to right: James O'Connell, Russell Roed...

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: