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| Date: | 08 14 1948 |
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| Description: | Sauk County's Centennial Queen float in Sauk County's Wisconsin Centennial Parade. |
| Date: | 08 14 1948 |
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| Description: | L.C. Welsh Plumbing float entitled "Evolution of the Chamber Pot" in Sauk County's Wisconsin Centennial Parade. |
| Date: | 08 18 1948 |
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| Description: | The delegation of state, county, city, university, and business officials is shown as the caravan is about to leave from the Dane County Courthouse, 207 We... |
| Date: | 09 25 1948 |
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| Description: | Governor Oscar Rennebohm signing a proclamation for Newspaperboy Day. Observing the signing ceremony are four newspaper boys. From left to right are: Ken ... |
| Date: | 04 20 1971 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, who is credited with conceiving of Earth Day, listens while Wisconsin Governor Patrick J. Lucey addresses the Wisconsin L... |
| Date: | 04 20 1971 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson acknowledges the applause of the Wisconsin Legislature at an event held in the Wisconsin State Capitol to mark the second ... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Decorated for the 250th celebration of the discovery of the Mississippi River. The ribbons and banners are all American flag themed. The storefront to the ... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Crowd around fountain at Wisconsin State Capitol for a 50-year celebration. There are decorations hanging from the fountain, and flower arrangements are ar... |
| Date: | 05 1970 |
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| Description: | The front page of "The Gaylord Nelson Newsletter" announcing Earth Day 1970, with the headline: "Mass Movement Begins." |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Peltz family (head table) at son Andre's Bar Mitzvah at the Jewish Community Center. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A Purim party at the Warburg Children's Home; Blankenesse (a suburb of Hamburg), Germany. |
| Date: | 03 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Mailman George A. Perkins receiving a purse containing 25 silver dollars from Marshall Browne, publisher of the East Side News, on the 25th anniversary of ... |
| Date: | 04 25 1949 |
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| Description: | Stephen (left) and Anne Patterson, four month old twins, lying in a bassinet in a portrait taken for National Baby Week. Rev. Patterson is the rector of Gr... |
| Date: | 07 1965 |
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| Description: | Curtis and his friend Pete Sandberg escort Queen of the prom, Marcy Smith and her friend (? Cole), alternate queen. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Seven men are holding the original flag from Perry's Victory. The men are standing on the flagship "Niagara" to celebrate the centennial of the victory. Th... |
| Date: | 10 11 1949 |
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| Description: | A crowd gathers to participate in a service to observe Armistice Day at the State Street entrance to the Wisconsin State Capitol building. At center left, ... |
| Date: | 11 11 1949 |
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| Description: | A community service to observe Armistice Day at the State Street's entrance to the Wisconsin State Capitol building. Flag bearers and a crowd of people sur... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A young boy and girl posed dressed up and wearing a crowns. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A man stands at a podium speaking into a microphone. There is a cake with the number 10 on it, and letters on the curtain behind him spell out "...gratulat... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Tourists look on as a group of Ho-Chunk dressed in traditional regalia are walking down the street during the Homecoming Celebration. |
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