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| Date: | 11 05 1952 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr. and Charlotte Kohler, listening to the radio, kept a close tabulation of state and national election returns Tuesday night a... |
| Date: | 01 29 1954 |
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| Description: | Governor and Mrs. Walter J. Kohler, Jr. holding a state flag requested for display by a Pacific Air Force hospital. Behind them some of the wall decoration... |
| Date: | 03 01 1951 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr. signs a bill that would liberalize state housing loans to veterans. The legislators grouped around him in the Governor's off... |
| Date: | 01 01 1951 |
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| Description: | Newly inaugurated Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr. sits at his desk in the Governor's office. Behind him are several bouquets of flowers and a Wisconsin flag... |
| Date: | 01 01 1951 |
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| Description: | Walter J. Kohler, Jr. is sitting on an oversized sofa in the Governor's office prior to his inauguration ceremony. With him are Wisconsin's other constitut... |
| Date: | 10 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., cuts a ribbon to open the "They Did It Themselves: 50 Years Ago" exhibit at the State Historical Society. Mrs. Vincent W. K... |
| Date: | 03 09 1953 |
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| Description: | University President E.B. Fred and former governor Oscar Rennebohm posing in front of the first Rennebohm Drug Store in the 1300 block of University Avenue... |
| Date: | 01 11 1951 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., addresses a joint session of the Wisconsin State Legislature. |
| Date: | 01 11 1951 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin State Legislature listens to a speech by Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr. The senators are seated in the first row, with Warren Knowles seated ... |
| Date: | 05 14 1950 |
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| Description: | President Harry S. Truman greets a crowd from the back platform of a NorthWestern train at the Commercial Ave. crossing. Others with him from the left are... |
| Date: | 01 07 1953 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Kohler sits with 2 1/2 year old Deborah Foster and her mother Ruth Foster, both polio victims. Governor Kohler is proclaiming January as "M... |
| Date: | 01 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Wisconsin's five constitutional officers at the swearing-in ceremony to begin their new two-year terms. Left to right: Lieutenant Governo... |
| Date: | 01 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Kohler taking the oath of office on the balcony of the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda. The oath was administered by Chief Justice Oscar M.... |
| Date: | 06 1955 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., meeting with a delegation of Latin American newspapermen in his office at the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 08 06 1957 |
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| Description: | John Scharnberg and Wisconsin Governor Vernon Thomson in the Governor's Office at the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 11 04 1958 |
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| Description: | Gaylord Nelson, the Democratic candidate for governor, emerging from the voting booth. |
| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Governor Gaylord Nelson signing the bill which created Menominee County as the state's 72nd county. The new county consisted of those portions of Shawano a... |
| Date: | 01 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Entertainer and pianist Hildegarde, born Hildegarde Loretta Sell, is shown in fur coat with Governor Oscar Rennebohm. She is a Wisconsin native born in Ade... |
| Date: | 02 07 1950 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Governor Oscar Rennebohm signing a proclamation officially announcing the observance of Nation Brotherhood Week. With him is Wisconsin Supreme Co... |
| Date: | 02 11 1950 |
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| Description: | Governor Rennebohm (right) is shown receiving an official invitation to the 1950 National Boy Scout Jamboree. Explorer Scout Richard Kessenich of DeForest... |
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