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| Description: | Fireman playing cribbage in a quiet moment at the Dayton and Randall Streets Fire Station Number 4 with spittoon in the foreground. |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Miss Marilla Zearing reading a newspaper on a rocking chair in the screened porch of her home. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agric... |
| Date: | 04 27 1934 |
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| Description: | Three little girls, members of the Emerson Fresh Air school and the Longfellow Nutrition room, playing with puppies in the Capital Times Kiddie Camp... |
| Date: | 02 15 1932 |
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| Description: | Winners and entries in "Capital Times" Valentine contest. The Valentine with the court scene in the center, featuring comic actors in "Ladies of the Jury,"... |
| Date: | 01 08 1932 |
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| Description: | Display of some of the 5,000 entries that came into the "Capital Times" office for the first "Cut Out Puzzle" contest of the "Boots" character from the "Bo... |
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| Description: | The country meets the city as a "Milwaukee Journal" newsboy admires the calf entered in the animal judging competition by a young boy from the country. |
| Date: | 11 24 1952 |
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| Description: | A crowd of University of Wisconsin students rally in front of the Memorial Union on getting a bid for the Rose Bowl. In 1952 the University football team w... |
| Date: | 02 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Phil "Scoop" Wackman, Brooklyn village banker. He is reading a newspaper with a headline that reads: "Wisconsin Wins Double Overtime," which reminded him o... |
| Date: | 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Henry J. "Hank" McCormick, sports editor of the Wisconsin State Journal. |
| Date: | 02 19 1947 |
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| Description: | Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin presenting the Wisconsin State Journal Trophy, emblematic of the suburban Six-Man Football league championship, to two memb... |
| Date: | 08 03 1933 |
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| Description: | A group of young men riding in the back of an International truck used by the "Deseret News" of Salt Lake City, Utah. The truck is parked at the "A Century... |
| Date: | 11 26 1971 |
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| Description: | Cover of "Maine Times," an underground newspaper, featuring a photograph of a boy holding a rifle and posing next to a deer, suspended from his garage. The... |
| Date: | 04 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Joe Dommershausen, Wisconsin State Journal sportswriter. |
| Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of eight veteran Soap Box Derby racers who will be making their second or third attempts to win the city championship. They are shown liste... |
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| Description: | Heavy touring carriages unload passengers in front of the Milwaukee Journal newspaper building. A crowd is gathered, along with a few musicians and ... |
| Date: | 11 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Three Madison high school football players, named to the 1948 Wisconsin All-Star football team. Left to right: Peter Cuilla and Al Trotalli, West High Scho... |
| Date: | 04 05 1949 |
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| Description: | A.F. Ketterer, principal of Franklin elementary school is at his desk looking over Wisconsin State Journal Badger Spelling Bee material with two of h... |
| Date: | 11 19 1949 |
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| Description: | Madison youth organization the LOFT honored Madison high school football players who were selected previously for All-City berths by handing out certificat... |
| Date: | 12 21 1949 |
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| Description: | Dozens of contributed stuffed toys are examined by volunteers for The State Journal Empty Stocking Club. In the front row, left to right, are: Alice Shores... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Stevens Point Public Library. The library opened in 1904 and was funded by a $22,000 donation from Andrew Carnegie. In the room is a p... |
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