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| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Ronald Reagan, Jane Wyman, Priscilla Lane, and Wayne Morris in a publicity still for Warner Brothers' film "Brother Rat." |
| Date: | 04 19 1942 |
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| Description: | Magazine clipping featuring Ronald Reagan in his army uniform prior to reporting for active duty in 1942. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Lt. Ronald Reagan and Corp. Craig Stevens on the set of the Warner Brothers' film "This is the Army." |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Ronald Reagan on the set of the Warner Bros. film "This is the Army." |
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| Description: | Magazine clipping featuring Ronald Reagan as the host of G.E. True Theatre. |
| Date: | 04 14 1953 |
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| Description: | Five Prairie du Chien women dressed in period dresses and hats posing for a group portrait with Governor Walter Kohler at the Wisconsin State Capitol build... |
| Date: | 05 13 1953 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Kohler (right) visiting with four members in period costume (a woman, a man dressed as an Indian, and two members of the Brothers of the Br... |
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| Description: | "Escape to Wisconsin" bumper sticker to promote tourism. |
| Date: | 07 21 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mary Ellen Jenks, the new Alice in Dairyland welcoming Elsie, the famed Borden Company cow to Madison. Elsie is wearing a heavily decorated lea... |
| Date: | 07 21 1953 |
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| Description: | Elsie, the Borden Co. cow with Gov. Walter Kohler, acting mayor Carl Wilhelm, Alice in Dairyland Mary Ellen Jenks and another man. They are posing together... |
| Date: | 10 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Depicting Florence Nightingale at the time of the Crimean war of 1853, a costumed Marie Timlin tends to "wounded soldier" Harold Hermanson. The enactment i... |
| Date: | 10 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Ardis Kirkpatrick, a private secretary to Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Grover Broadfoot, is wearing the costume of an 1800's typist while using a Sholes... |
| Date: | 10 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Nellie A. Brown, night supervisor of nurses, represents a modern nurse as she is pushing a patient in a wheelchair. Posing as the patient is Geneva F. McKa... |
| Date: | 10 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Joy Morrison poses as a worker in a drugstore during the 1800's. Pharmaceutical items on the wall were used in Wisconsin drugstores during the first 50 yea... |
| Date: | 10 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Joy Morrison dresses in costume while working in an old-time drug store at the Wisconsin Historical Society Museum. The pharmaceutical items were used in W... |
| Date: | 10 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Seated at her desk is Lorraine C. Jones, secretary to T.F. Wisniewski, a director at the State Board of Health. She is portraying a "modern" secretary as a... |
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| Description: | The Harmonicats were a popular jazz harmonica trio, originally known as the Harmonica Madcats, that was formed in 1944. The original musicians were Murad (... |
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| Description: | Magicians Dave (left) and Pauline Coleman performing their famous "Hindu Torture Board" trick using an anvil on a board full of nails positioned on the abd... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Harry Houdini, the well-known escape artist, was born in Budapest, Hungary and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. At the time of his immigration his name was s... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length publicity portrait of renowned escape artist Harry Houdini. |
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