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| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Calendar with the months of February and March, 1893. Features an illustration of a woman sitting on the top of a globe. She is holding a wreath, and is re... |
| Date: | 05 02 1902 |
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| Description: | Front cover and first two pages of the menu and program for a dinner honoring newspaperman Opie Read. There is a tipped-in drawing of Read on the cover, dr... |
| Date: | 09 09 1940 |
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| Description: | Teenagers modeling for the Teen Shop at Manchester's. They are sitting outdoors looking at a book. A college building is in the background. |
| Date: | 05 19 1961 |
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| Description: | Aurilla Dorer's fourth grade class at Middleton's Elm Lawn school wins a set of the World Book Encyclopedia from Wisconsin State Journal columnist "Uncle R... |
| Date: | 06 19 1953 |
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| Description: | The cornerstone for the new University of Wisconsin YMCA building at the corner of W. Johnson and N. Brooks Streets is laid. Copies of the bible, a Wisc... |
| Date: | 1992 |
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| Description: | Prime Minister of Israel Shimon Peres and Congressman David Obey talk in Obey's office. Papers cover his desk and a large map of Wisconsin is mounted on th... |
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| Description: | Photographs illustrating the general history of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Included are interior and exterior views of facilities and build... |
| Date: | 03 1965 |
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| Description: | The caption with this photograph reads: "Dr. Walter Peterson (right), professor of history at Lawrence University, Appleton, with F. Gerald Ham, Wisconsin ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior view of office, looking towards open office door. Painted on the door: "McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., A.I. Dourgherty, Gen. Ag't." |
| Date: | 12 18 1963 |
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| Description: | A photo book recording the visit of Oslo Norway's Mayor Rolf Stranger is presented to Mayor Henry E. Reynolds (seated at right) by John Kreissler, Wiscons... |
| Date: | 06 1963 |
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| Description: | August Derleth (seated) signs books at a meeting of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. Behind him are (l to r): Star Powers, Marvin Davis Winsett, Mildred ... |
| Date: | 06 1963 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men and woman at a Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets convention. Names, (l to r): Marvin Davis Winsett, Poet Laureate of Texas; Edna Kristin ... |
| Date: | 06 1963 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men and woman at a Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets convention. Names, (l to r): Mildred Breedlove, Nevada; August Derleth, Wisconsin writer... |
| 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 ... |
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| Description: | Newton Minow is sworn in as Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman. He has his right hand raised and the left hand on a bible as he takes the oat... |
| Date: | 07 30 1961 |
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| Description: | Newton Minow, chairman of the Federal Communications Comission (FCC), and Harold C. Ostertag, Report From Congress representative are seated together with ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | "This picture is of the first telephone exchange that I established in Laona. The girl standing is my youngest daughter. This exchange is still operated in... |
| Date: | 11 1907 |
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| Description: | Three men are sitting in an office around a large desk with stacks of books, papers and a telephone. They men are wearing suits, ties and watch fobs, and ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Governor Emmanuel Philipp sits at his desk in a group portrait with his senators. Three other men sit in chairs behind the desk, and eleven men stand in a ... |
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| Description: | Governor John J. Blaine, Wisconsin's 24th governor, sits in an office next to a desk in a leather chair. Papers, books and a telephone are on the desk. On ... |
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