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Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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Description: | Seaman 1st class Tom Teeley with newsboy, Bernard Ehrmann, holding a copy of the Wisconsin State Journal with headline declaring peace in the Pacific. Cele... |
Date: | 06 29 1946 |
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Description: | An African American mechanic works on a car up on the rack for servicing at the gas station Meehan Motor Mart, 209 East Washington Avenue. |
Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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Description: | Fred Boyle, clerk at the post office, looks overwhelmed surrounded by a mountain of Christmas parcels to be sorted for shipment overseas to men and women i... |
Date: | 03 1944 |
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Description: | Wendell Willkie visits with Aaron Martin Brayton, retired editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, on his bed in a local hospital room during Willkie'... |
Date: | 03 25 1944 |
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Description: | Wendell Willkie speaking with Ed Mergen, "Wisconsin State Journal" veteran typesetter in charge of page layout, in the composing room during Willkie's 194... |
Date: | 02 24 1950 |
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Description: | A group of workmen posing in front of the First Unitarian Society Meeting House during construction. This is one of two "work days" the men donated to the ... |
Date: | 03 01 1951 |
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Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr. signs a bill that would liberalize state housing loans to veterans. The legislators grouped around him in the Governor's off... |
Date: | 01 01 1951 |
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Description: | Newly inaugurated Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr. sits at his desk in the Governor's office. Behind him are several bouquets of flowers and a Wisconsin flag... |
Date: | 01 01 1951 |
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Description: | Walter J. Kohler, Jr. is sitting on an oversized sofa in the Governor's office prior to his inauguration ceremony. With him are Wisconsin's other constitut... |
Date: | 12 27 1945 |
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Description: | John Steuart Curry standing next to an action painting of David N. Schreiner, an All-American end in 1942 who was killed in action on Okinawa in 1945, whil... |
Date: | 1944 |
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Description: | A woman operates a lathe at the Gisholt plant on East Washington Avenue. |
Date: | 06 15 1948 |
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Description: | Uncollected garbage on South Hamilton Street being viewed by two children during a walkout strike by Local 236 Municipal Garage Department Union. |
Date: | 01 1947 |
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Description: | Joseph W. Jackson (Col. Bud), executive director of the Madison and Wisconsin Foundation, standing next to a map of the isthmus. |
Date: | 01 14 1954 |
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Description: | Nancy Staudenraus, "Wisconsin State Journal" librarian and assistant Spelling Bee director, and Ernest P. Green, day foreman of the press room, looking at ... |
Date: | 1944 |
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Description: | A man works on an armature at Fuller & Johnson, 52 North Dickinson Street. Fuller&Johnson produced war material during World War II. |
Date: | 1945 |
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Description: | Three women work in the Community War Chest office. One of the women is typing and one is about to use the telephone. A sign on the wall behind the women r... |
Date: | 10 04 1945 |
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Description: | Madison Building and Construction Trades workers on the job at the Hoofer Glass Co. take time out to sign their pledge cards for one day's pay to the Madis... |
Date: | 08 06 1944 |
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Description: | War workers, families and friends of Gisholt Machine Company at the company picnic held at the Blooming Grove Firemen's Park on Monona Drive. There is a ca... |
Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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Description: | A woman is feeding hemp stalks into a crusher for rope production during World War II. |
Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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Description: | Two women processing hemp fibers at the DeForest hemp mill during World War II. |
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