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Poster

The Dawn of Plenty

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for speaker Ralph Bedford and his program: "An Illustrated Story, the Dawn of Plenty." The program is described as a "Vital Entertaining...
Poster

The Dawn of Plenty

Date: 1913
Description: Advertising poster for speaker Royce Hamilton and his program: "An Illustrated Story, the Dawn of Plenty." The program is described as a "Vital Entertainin...
Photograph

Radio Lecture Set-Up with Glenn Morris

Date: 09 09 1941
Description: Set-up of radio equipment for a lecture. The man is probably Glenn Morris.
Photograph

Mrs. Margaret Wells Wood

Date: 09 27 1933
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Margaret Wells Wood, speaker on "Petting Parties," at the Loraine Hotel. A lecturer and field worker for the American Social Hygiene Assoc...
Photograph

Janette Serrec with Bicycle

Date: 05 23 1933
Description: Janette Serrec, lecturer and writer on the "Fine Art of Successful Living," standing beside a Hawthorne bicycle from Ward's. She is wearing jodhpurs and bo...
Photograph

Robert M. La Follette Addressing a Crowd

Date: 04 1907
Description: Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., speaking to a crowd in a Los Angeles park. This photograph was used to illustrate the brochure "La Follette on the Firi...
Photograph

Eleanor Roosevelt at Press Conference

Date: 01 18 1953
Description: Eleanor Roosevelt interviewed by the press prior to her Sunday afternoon talk in the Memorial Union Theater.
Photograph

Eleanor Roosevelt Press Conference

Date: 01 19 1953
Description: Eleanor Roosevelt interviewed by the press prior to her Sunday afternoon talk in the Memorial Union Theater.
Photograph

Dr. Alanson H. Edgerton

Date: 08 03 1944
Description: Portrait of Dr. Alanson H. Edgerton, a professor of guidance and director of guidance at the University of Wisconsin. His special interests lie in the stud...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Margaret Mead Newspaper Article

Date: 
Description: A newspaper photograph of Margaret Mead with an article about her appearance and speech at a Civics Club event.
Photograph

Dr. Karfft A. Ehricke, Space Scientist

Date: 08 22 1961
Description: Portrait of Dr. Krafft A. Ehricke, program director of the astronautics division of General Dynamics Corporation. He spoke at the Wisconsin Union Theater t...
Photograph

Carolyn Howe Porter

Date: 
Description: Quarter-length profile portrait of Caroline Porter, wife of Lew Porter, the state supervising architect and secretary of the Wisconsin State Capitol Commis...
Photograph

Minetta Leonard

Date: 05 24 1957
Description: Indoor portrait of Minetta Leonard, who will give an illustrated travel talk to the Christian Mothers and Altar Society at St. Bernard's Catholic Church in...
Photograph

The Lecture Platform

Date: 1882
Description: Collage of portraits for 45 different people. Caption on reverse lists the lecturers: 1. Rev. Talmage; 2. E. Yates; 3. "Eli Perkins"; 4. "Josh Billings"; 5...
Photograph

G.A. Newman, Canadian Consul General

Date: 11 20 1957
Description: Portrait of G.A. Newman, Canadian Consul General stationed in Chicago, when he spoke to the Madison Rotary Club at the Park Hotel about U.S. tariff policie...
Photograph

Dr. Theophilus Taylor, Presbyterian Minister

Date: 03 09 1959
Description: Dr. Theophilus Taylor, Presbyterian world leader, spoke in Madison at a banquet at the Memorial Union, about the current and growing complexity of the mini...

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