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| Date: | 08 21 1917 |
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| Description: | Original caption: "The above picture is the first that has been taken of Mrs. Vernon Castle and her soldier husband since he returned to this country aft... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the motion picture, "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" (RKO, 1939). Although Astaire and Rogers were ideally cast to... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The glamorous dancer Irene Castle wearing a World War I "Preparedness Uniform" of her own design. The dress was based on the uniform worn by her husband an... |
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| Description: | The real flying nun, Sister Mary Aquinas Kinskey, O.S.F., in a B-52 simulator with Major Ralph M. Hanson. Sister Mary Aquinas was fulfilling her dream of f... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Betty Sullivan, a Red Cross worker, serves coffee in the interrogation room at Kobler Field, Saipan, for a B-29 flight crew that had just returned from a b... |
| Date: | 04 04 1969 |
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| Description: | Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird of Wisconsin (on the far right) with astronaut James Lovell, a former student at the University of Wisconsin, and his wif... |
| Date: | 01 03 1949 |
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| Description: | Glady McConochie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chris McConochie of Pardeville, in center, taking her oath from Elmer H. Gibson, at left, commanding officer of ... |
| Date: | 07 15 1949 |
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| Description: | Family portrait of Lieutenant and Mrs. Leon B. (Florence) Stephens Jr. and their eleven-month old son, Timothy, who are visiting in the home of the officer... |
| Date: | 04 29 1952 |
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| Description: | As a promotion stunt, several of the committee members, and 11 girls who were semi-finalists in the court of honor contest for the University of Wisconsin-... |
| Date: | 04 29 1952 |
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| Description: | As a promotion stunt, several of the committee members, and 11 girls who were semi-finalists in the court of honor contest for the University of Wisconsin-... |
| Date: | 04 29 1952 |
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| Description: | As a promotion stunt, several of the committee members, and 11 girls who were semi-finalists in the court of honor contest for the University of Wisconsin-... |
| Date: | 06 17 1952 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Mary Ellen Fletcher used an inheritance to fly her mother and father in-laws from Birmingham, England to Madison to witness their sons graduation from... |
| Date: | 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Gwen Jensen, a female flight nurse, poses for a photograph during flight training at Alameda Naval Air Strip. In an anoxic faint chamber, used to simulate ... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Betty Sullivan, a Red Cross Worker, serving coffee and talking with B-29 crew at Kobler Field in Saipan. Sullivan is reaching for a large coffee pot and is... |
| Date: | 11 01 1960 |
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| Description: | Maj. Alexander de Seversky (right), speaker at the Air Power banquet at the Wisconsin Memorial Union, speaks with Donald Alexander and Marian Alexander. |
| Date: | 11 01 1960 |
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| Description: | Attendees at the Air Power banquet include, from left to right: Patricia Jensen; Brig. Gen. Kenneth H. Gibson, commander of the Chicago Air Defense Sector;... |
| Date: | 11 01 1960 |
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| Description: | Among those attending the Air Power Banquet at the Wisconsin Memorial Union (left to right) are: Dr. Conrad Elvehjem, president of the University of Wiscon... |
| Date: | 05 16 1958 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Madison wrestling promoter Jimmy Demetral donating to a fund established for the welfare and education of the 3-month-old son of an Air Force p... |
| Date: | 01 02 1962 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Charles & Victoria Slayton, parents of astronaut Donald "Deke" Slayton, sitting in their home in Leon, Wisconsin with framed photographs of the... |
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