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| Date: | 08 24 1934 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist. |
| Date: | 05 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Janette Serrec, lecturer and writer on the "Fine Art of Successful Living," standing beside a Hawthorne bicycle from Ward's. She is wearing jodhpurs and bo... |
| Date: | 05 22 1933 |
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| Description: | Janette Serrec, University of Wisconsin graduate, lecturer and writer on the "Fine Art of Successful Living," standing beside a Pontiac automobile she drov... |
| Date: | 09 28 1932 |
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| Description: | Mrs. C.D. Lehman, a writer of children's books, with her son, John, a University of Wisconsin student. They are pictured in their home in the Princeton apa... |
| 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: | 01 26 1956 |
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| Description: | Family portrait of Humbert and Marie Versace with their four children. Colonel Versace, a West Point graduate, is senior advisor for the Wisconsin National... |
| Date: | 04 28 1956 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Cockefair sit for a portrait while holding the book "The Story of You" that they authored. |
| Date: | 09 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Three women are attending an autographing tea at Graham's Book and Stationary Store, 3238 University Avenue. They are, left to right: Helen Fairchild, Hele... |
| Date: | 09 21 1957 |
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| Description: | William F. Steuber Jr. autographs a copy of his book, "The Landlooker," for Mrs. Robert Cromey at an autographing tea at Graham's Book and Stationary Store... |
| Date: | 09 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Tere Rios (Mrs. H.J. Versace), left, chatting with the store proprietor who holds a copy of her book "An Angel Grows Up." They are at an autographing tea a... |
| Date: | 04 17 1959 |
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| Description: | Advice columnist Ann Landers is shown with two writers who received awards at the Ladies of the Press breakfast. Standing left to right are: Ann Landers, M... |
| Date: | 04 30 1961 |
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| Description: | Ethel Parker, center, holds the Writer's Cup which she was awarded for outstanding work in communications at the annual Ladies of the Press breakfast. Ethe... |
| Date: | 06 03 1961 |
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| Description: | Seated are, Mrs. Mary Ingraham Bunting, president of Radcliffe College, and Louis P. Lochner, Fair Haven, New Jersey, Pulitzer prize winning foreign corres... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Zona Gale reading for WHA radio station. She is sitting at a table looking down at a script. |
| Date: | 07 23 1964 |
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| Description: | Betty Friedan, author of the best-seller, "The Feminine Mystique," spoke on "The Crisis in Women's Identity-A Challenge to Education" in the Great Hall of ... |
| Date: | 09 02 1965 |
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| Description: | Lloyd Besant, author of a "Happening" and president of the Village Playhouse that will produce it, is shown discussing his script with Donna Zegarowicz (le... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Angela Lobo-Cobb is sitting sideways in a chair in front of a desk at a window. She is looking down at papers in her hands. On the desk is a typewriter. Tw... |
| Date: | 12 13 1957 |
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| Description: | At the typewriter is Marie Teresa Rios Versace, mother of five children. At her side, daughter Tracy is reading a book. Versace has published her first boo... |
| Date: | 12 29 1960 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin faculty members Louise A. Young (R) and L. G. Sorden have developed a "Family Record Book" that allows for a complete listing of fa... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Vignetted waist-up portrait of Mary Matthews Adams, wife of Charles Kendall Adams, 1890-1902. She was a philanthropist and poet, whose published works incl... |
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