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| Date: | 09 20 1934 |
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| Description: | Howard Miner, disabled World War I veteran, receiving Forget-me-not flower from Florence Palz, ladies auxiliary chairman, marking the opening of the forget... |
| Date: | 08 30 1933 |
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| Description: | Omnibus advertising Marion Cranefield VFW Post 1318 and Fauerbach Beer. The bus is parked in front of Ferdinand C. Jack's Tailor Shop and Edward "Ace" Fisc... |
| Date: | 05 10 1933 |
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| Description: | Mayor James R. Law buying V.F.W. poppy from Miss Jane Elizabeth Ward. |
| Date: | 09 29 1932 |
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| Description: | Chief of Police William McCormick buying the first Forget-me-not from the Disabled American Veterans on the Wisconsin State Capitol steps. Left to right: L... |
| Date: | 08 26 1932 |
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| Description: | Locomotive float which won honorable mention for the Dane County American Legion Voiture No. 683 of the 40 et 8, a replica of French transportation during ... |
| Date: | 03 25 1944 |
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| Description: | Wendell Willkie speaks with Carroll L. Coon, Commander of Madison's William B. Cairns American Legion Post No. 57, during Willkie's 1944 campaign for the P... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Oneida members of the Grand Army of the Republic. The Parish Hall is in the background. |
| Date: | 10 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Four members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, including Mrs. Hazel Miller, the national president, in a horse-drawn carriage in front of the Chic... |
| Date: | 10 10 1944 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of ten members of the Marion C. Cranefield post No. 1318 Veterans of Foreign Wars presenting a United States flag and staff for use at the D... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Grand Army of the Republic in Memorial Day Parade. During the 1890s and 1900s, most of the 45 to 65 age group of men were Civil War veterans, and belonged ... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Grand Army of the Republic in Memorial Day Parade, in front of the Freeman House. Leading the ranks is probably James Livingston, Alvin "Bean" Hagen is pro... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Grand Army of the Republic in Memorial Day Parade, on the north side of Main Street, between First and Water Streets. Iver Erickson's shoemaker shop is at ... |
| Date: | 09 12 1949 |
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| Description: | A gathering of officers and members of the Wisconsin Department of the American Legion, probably at their annual state convention. In Wisconsin the ardent ... |
| Date: | 08 26 1948 |
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| Description: | Lyle T. Beggs, standing on the steps of a Milwaukee Road train, as he is about to leave for VFW camp where he is expected to be elected national commander ... |
| Date: | 11 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Color bearers from the National Guard, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the two American Legion posts, the Spanish-American War veterans, their auxiliaries, a... |
| Date: | 11 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Robert Babcock, Lodi, places the American Legion auxiliary post Number 57 memorial wreath at the front of the memorial obelisk on the grounds of the Wiscon... |
| Date: | 11 11 1948 |
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| Description: | American Legion members in front of a plane at the Madison airport. Membership Chairman R.C. Golden is handing 1949 membership cards to the pilot Colonel L... |
| Date: | 11 14 1948 |
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| Description: | Madison Legion Auxiliary tea at the American Legion clubhouse, 110 West Wilson Street. At the serving table are, left to right: Mrs Oscar (Louise) Onsgard,... |
| Date: | 11 23 1948 |
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| Description: | At a VFW banquet, Lyall T. Beggs, national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, was honored by the VFW and Madison citizens at the Hotel Loraine in t... |
| Date: | 03 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Lyall T. Beggs, former legislator from Madison and presently national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, being escorted to the speaker's rostrum in... |
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