Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 41-60 of 93

Photograph

Madison West-Kenosha Football Game

Date: 11 02 1950
Description: The Madison West High School running back picks up a first down in their football game against Kenosha at Breese Stevens Field. Kenosha players are Bob Gil...
Photograph

Jacob Marchowsky and Attorney

Date: 11 14 1950
Description: J.H. "Jake" Marachowsky, right, former president of the bankrupt Portage Wholesale Company, standing beside his attorney, Jacob Geffs, Janesville.
Photograph

Blackhawk Ski Jump

Date: 12 18 1950
Description: Two men bring up a plank for a brace during construction of the Blackhawk Ski Club ski jump in preparation for the second annual jumping meet at Tomahawk R...
Photograph

Blackhawk Ski Jump

Date: 12 18 1950
Description: A man prepares to hoist a plank into place during construction of the Blackhawk Ski Club ski jump in anticipation for the second annual jumping meet at Tom...
Photograph

Nels A. Anderson, Madison Postman

Date: 12 29 1950
Description: U.S. postman Nels A. Anderson delivers mail to a door marked "15." Anderson began delivering mail in Madison in 1912 and is the city's senior postman.
Photograph

Madison Air Force Enlistees

Date: 01 03 1951
Description: A group of air force enlistees poses for a group portrait before departing from Madison for Milwaukee. They are part of the thirty-three who were accepted ...
Photograph

Chinchilla Fur Coat

Date: 01 21 1951
Description: The only "let-out" coat made of matched chinchilla fur in existence is modeled by an unidentified woman at a Milwaukee style show.
Photograph

Roundy Coughlin and Friends

Date: 12 01 1951
Description: Portrait of Roundy Coughlin with three friends.
Photograph

Women Protestors in a Judge's Office

Date: 11 12 1951
Description: Six irate women drivers sit in the office of superior court judge Roy H. Proctor's office to protest his dismissal of a traffic charge against a male drive...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Journal Editor Leaving for World Tour

Date: 01 15 1952
Description: Roy L. Matson, editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, boarding a plane to start a 25,000-mile air tour of Europe and the Near East under the sponsorship of...
Photograph

Two Journalists Depart for World Wide Tour

Date: 01 15 1952
Description: University of Wisconsin journalism professor Graham Hovey (left) and Wisconsin State Journal editor Roy Matson confer at the Madison airport before departi...
Photograph

Madison Tax Payers

Date: 01 22 1952
Description: A line of taxpayers queue up to pay their 1951 city taxes at City Hall, 2-4 West Mifflin Street.
Photograph

Prizes for WSJ Circulation Contest

Date: 03 29 1952
Description: Boy modeling jacket, one of 11 prizes in the Wisconsin State Journal circulation contest. The other prizes pictured on 10 negatives are: flashlight, axe & ...
Photograph

Hi-Lo Supermarket Counter

Date: 01 23 1953
Description: Two checkout counters at the Hi-Lo supermarket at 2038 Jenifer Street, with unidentified clerks and customers.
Photograph

Catholic Church Ground Breaking

Date: 05 24 1953
Description: Ground breaking ceremonies at the site of St. Mary of the Lake Catholic Church to replace the church that was destroyed by fire in 1951. The Reverend Edwar...
Photograph

Law Students at Homecoming Game

Date: 10 31 1953
Description: Senior law students throw canes over the goalpost at the University of Wisconsin Homecoming Game against Iowa. Nearly one hundred students, including four ...
Photograph

Tuberculosis Association Christmas Seals

Date: 11 09 1953
Description: Mail carrier Joseph L. Ripp delivers Christmas seals to Mrs. M. Leslie (Gretchen) Holt at 133 Langdon Street. They are for the traditional fund raising dri...
Photograph

Pearce Roberts

Date: 01 14 1954
Description: Portrait of Pearce Roberts, Executive Secretary of the Madison Building Trades Council and past president of the Madison Federation of Labor.
Photograph

Wisconsin Diagnostic Center

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: An interior view of the new Wisconsin Diagnostic Center for the intensive study of mentally and emotionally disturbed young people, referred to it by the s...
Photograph

Henry J. McCormick

Date: 03 01 1954
Description: Henry J. McCormick, Wisconsin State Journal Sports Editor, stands beside an automobile before his departure for Bradenton, Florida to report on the M...

Have Questions?

If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.

Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: