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Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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Description: | Lifeguard Tom Langlois in a rowboat is issuing a warning to James Bergman who is swimming outside the ropes that delineate the safe swimming area. |
Date: | 06 24 1944 |
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Description: | Romance Koopman and her son, Bobby Koopman. She did freelance writing and radio scripts, and was a winner of five national awards for writing. Her mother w... |
Date: | 07 01 1944 |
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Description: | Clifford Thompson, the second tallest man in the world, being sworn into the Wisconsin state bar at the Wisconsin State Capitol by Justice Elmer E. Barlow.... |
Date: | 06 28 1944 |
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Description: | John E. "Hickey" Wilkinson sitting in his office at the Democrat Printing Company from which he is retired after fifty years of service. |
Date: | 06 23 1944 |
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Description: | Preparing for War Bond Drive at Breese Stevens Field are Manchester's, Inc., employees Charmain Sabanske, Jenny McMahon, Helen Heisman, Jean Stehr, Jeanne ... |
Date: | 06 12 1944 |
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Description: | Portrait of Leon A. Smith, Madison's water superintendent since 1916. |
Date: | 06 23 1944 |
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Description: | Tornado damage at Truax Field area. Paul Gritzmacher and a cow are in the damaged barn. |
Date: | 07 20 1944 |
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Description: | Portrait of William E. O'Brien, Wisconsin Director for the War Manpower Commssion. Mr. O'Brien, a civil engineer, was formerly Chairman of the Wisconsin Hi... |
Date: | 07 23 1944 |
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Description: | Tornado damage in Truax Field area. Albert Anderson is shown holding the wire of a fence that held him during the storm. Oscar and Elmer Anderson, Albert's... |
Date: | 07 27 1944 |
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Description: | City of Madison staff demonstrating homemade liquid mosquito sprayer designed by Dr. Bernhard "Dommie" Domogalla, city biochemist. Left to right: LeRoy Joh... |
Date: | 08 04 1944 |
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Description: | Marshall F. Browne at his typewriter. He was editor and publisher of the "East Side News" and several other publications. |
Date: | 08 01 1944 |
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Description: | John J. Walsh, Madison attorney-at-law, standing next to the Tilt-a-Whirl ride at the Madison East Side Festival, the scene of an accident in which a teena... |
Date: | 08 02 1944 |
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Description: | Truax cadets serving as lifeguards while swimming at Warner Beach. Left to right, standing: Karl Peters, George Toothill, John Fink, Norman Finazzo, John O... |
Date: | 08 06 1944 |
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Description: | Five speakers at the Gisholt Machine Company picnic, taken at the Blooming Grove carnival grounds. Left to right: Marion "Red" Borland, president of Gishol... |
Date: | 08 11 1944 |
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Description: | A.A.L., also known as Alva A. Lattimer, columnist and poet whose poems have appeared on the editorial page of the Wisconsin State Journal, working a... |
Date: | 08 05 1944 |
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Description: | Two men at a desk at the National Mutual Benefit Insurance Company. |
Date: | 08 16 1944 |
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Description: | John J. Flad, architect, and John Guy Fowlkes, professor of education at the University of Wisconsin, viewing the exhibit "Modern Architecture for Modern S... |
Date: | 08 16 1944 |
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Description: | Nanette Taylor, dressed in current fashion suit, is viewing Betty Lippman dressed in 1903 style swim suit. |
Date: | 09 08 1944 |
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Description: | Portrait of Arthur G. Tappen, manager of the Madison Office, 21 W. Main Street, of the Western Union Telegraph Company since 1915. The Wisconsin State J... |
Date: | 09 09 1944 |
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Description: | Lois Wiessinger, Michael Mack, and Harold Stone, state employees, filled 21,600 Christmas packages to be sent by the American Red Cross to hospitalized ser... |
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