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| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Schlitz train and group of revelers, celebrating the end of prohibition in Milwaukee. Schlitz Engine #8027 departs to deliver the first Schlitz beer at 12:... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi with his fist in the air at the Wisconsin State Capitol during welfare demonstrations.He is surrounded by other protesters. |
| Date: | 12 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Governor Walter S. Goodland sitting at his desk in the Capitol with pipe in hand. |
| Date: | 06 02 1933 |
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| Description: | Governor Albert G. Schmedeman signing the Beer Bill with 14 men observing. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of International Harvester's Evansville Works employees wearing suits assembled in front of the factory. The Evansville Works produced refri... |
| Date: | 11 1956 |
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| Description: | Russell Jones, facing camera wearing a light trench coat, standing with a group of journalists on a street corner during the fighting in Budapest, Hungary.... |
| Date: | 08 29 1966 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi leading a fair housing march. |
| Date: | 12 05 1924 |
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| Description: | Klansmen of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) wearing conic masks and white robes gather in front of St. James Lutheran Church, Verona, for the funeral of Herbert C. ... |
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| Description: | Men approaching a train at the railroad depot carrying farm machinery from the J.I. Case Company. |
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| Description: | People sitting at tables, drinking and talking. A large banner with a picture of Thaddeus Kosciuszko hangs on the wall. |
| Date: | 04 18 1946 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Goodland, seated at his desk, talking with two Mexican men. |
| Date: | 06 13 1952 |
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| Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy chats with other officials at the Wisconsin State Republican Convention. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt and national co-chair Leon Henderson (right) at a dinner sponsored by the Union for Democratic Action (later Americans for Democratic Act... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Three men power boating on Lake Superior. Two of the men are smoking cigarettes. |
| Date: | 02 13 1948 |
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| Description: | Town of Madison Volunteer Firemen Association holding their first meeting under its new constitution at the Hillcrest School, Mineral Point Road. Pictured ... |
| Date: | 04 1966 |
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| Description: | Cover of "Ramparts," an underground newspaper, featuring a drawing of then Vietnamese first lady Madame Nhu in a Michigan State University cheerleading uni... |
| Date: | 03 17 1970 |
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| Description: | Cover of "Burning River Oracle," a free underground newspaper, featuring a drawing of Jesus Christ crucified in front of the silhouette of an urban landsca... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Three construction workers standing near a truck outside the office for the Sand Chapter of Mechanical Contractors at the construction site for the World T... |
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| Description: | A meeting at Highlander Folk School. Guy Carawan is holding a banjo on far left. Septima Clark is standing third from the left. Matt Sturgis, holding an ac... |
| Date: | 09 1957 |
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| Description: | The police used fire hoses to control the angry crowds that gathered near Central High School during the integration crisis. There is a boy on the ground w... |
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