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| Date: | 10 15 1934 |
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| Description: | Babe Ruth, wearing dressing gown, stands in the doorway of a train and signs autographs for clamoring fans, with a train porter in uniform standing by. |
| Date: | 04 03 1931 |
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| Description: | Harold Smith, University of Wisconsin football tackle, working his way through school by cleaning windshields at a Valvoline station. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of trapeze artist Emily Schadel, posing on a trapeze. |
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| Description: | Former Olympic athlete Bob Matthias (left) and Republican Senator Chilsen and using exercise equipment. Matthias was also a Republican Congressman from Cal... |
| Date: | 12 07 1948 |
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| Description: | Participants at the head table of the annual University of Wisconsin football banquet in the Great Hall of the Memorial Union. From left are: Robert "Red" ... |
| Date: | 12 18 1948 |
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| Description: | Three female models that took part in a fashion show for the Wisconsin All-State Football Squad during a dinner at Manchester's Madison Room, shown with fi... |
| Date: | 11 19 1949 |
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| Description: | Madison youth organization the LOFT honored Madison high school football players who were selected previously for All-City berths by handing out certificat... |
| Date: | 08 05 1952 |
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| Description: | Softball players and twins Darlene and Arlene Bates are shown in their apartment 'robbing' their cookie jar. They both worked at Oscar Mayer and Co. doing ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Russ Edlerkin, Army Chief Clerk in shorts and tank top; George Arthur Weidner, Army Chief Clerk holding two trophy cups; unknown F.S. Clerk holding two tro... |
| Date: | 03 12 1956 |
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| Description: | Sauk City School superintendent William Leahy goes over some basketball tournament details with Coach Bob Schrader, while players Larry Breunig and Wayne S... |
| Date: | 09 08 1956 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin football player Gene Melvin weighs in at 163 pounds and is the lightest player on the 1956 team. At right is the Wisconsin State... |
| Date: | 09 08 1956 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin football player Bob Nelson weighs in at 239 pounds and is the heaviest player on the 1956 team. At right is the Wisconsin State ... |
| Date: | 11 20 1958 |
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| Description: | Noni Foley and R.R. (Bud) Paunack model ski wear at the Madison YMCA Ski Club's fashion show. |
| Date: | 12 09 1959 |
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| Description: | Lowell "Gooch" Jenkins was a 250-pound tackle on the University of Wisconsin’s football team, but he was also a skilled art student. After graduating, he b... |
| Date: | 07 1960 |
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| Description: | Pauline Erickson, city golf champion, wearing the popular free-action shirt, smooth shorts, and a matching alpaca sweater. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Rohde's Steak House special football luncheon menu, with a photograph of the University of Wisconsin coaching staff for the 1964 season (Fr... |
| Date: | 07 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Journal newspaper carriers attend a Milwaukee Braves versus St. Louis Cardinals baseball game. Carrier Bill Jess (left) gets the autograph ... |
| Date: | 11 22 1962 |
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| Description: | U.W. athlete Pat Richter is shown seated at his home doing late night studying of landscape architecture during the football season. |
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| Description: | Team group portrait of winners for the Mendota League baseball tournament, taken in a Gisholt office that has framed images of lathes hanging on the wall b... |
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