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Filter: Creator Name of Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972
| Date: | 06 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Uncollected garbage on South Hamilton Street being viewed by two children during a walkout strike by Local 236 Municipal Garage Department Union. |
| Date: | 02 25 1947 |
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| Description: | Four men wrestling with escaped pigs in the backyard of a home in the Nakoma neighborhood. A truck loaded with about 80 hogs overturned in the 3600 block o... |
| Date: | 06 25 1948 |
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| Description: | A workbench is pictured on which the desks for the first state constitutional convention in 1848 were made by Deming Fitch, its former owner. Mr. Fitch, wh... |
| Date: | 07 07 1948 |
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| Description: | Maxine Hanson, 133 Talmadge Street, making a deposit from her car at Security State Bank's new drive-in deposit window at 1965 Atwood Avenue. The teller is... |
| Date: | 08 18 1948 |
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| Description: | From the left: Ray Rockow, manager of the Majestic Theater on King Street; Roundy, Wisconsin State Journal; and Cliff Harm, Montgomery-Ward and Co. ... |
| Date: | 12 13 1949 |
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| Description: | Sixteen employees of the Rennebohm Drug Company carry miscellaneous furnishings from the old executive residence to the new one in Maple Bluff. The "moving... |
| Date: | 03 13 1950 |
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| Description: | A familiar sight around Madison is workers framing in houses. Two workers are working on a roof and dormer. |
| Date: | 06 30 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of construction of new concrete bleachers at the north end of Camp Randall Stadium. |
| Date: | 06 30 1950 |
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| Description: | View of the north bleachers at Camp Randall Stadium, with construction started to add additional concrete bleachers on top. |
| Date: | 08 16 1950 |
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| Description: | A lifeguard observes swimmers at the beach in Vilas Park. A rowboat used by the lifeguard is on the beach. |
| Date: | 09 16 1950 |
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| Description: | "Roundy" Coughlin sitting on a stoop with some neighborhood children who put on a magic show to collect money for Roundy's Fun Fund for handicapped kids. |
| Date: | 10 11 1950 |
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| Description: | Pictured is the city of Madison street department's new $4,000 leaf loader during operations in the 12th Ward. The suction unit, which is like a huge "vacu... |
| Date: | 07 18 1937 |
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| Description: | Roundy Coughlin handing Madison soap box derby champion Ken Johnson, age 15, the M.E. Coyle trophy while the crowd applauds in the background. The rac... |
| Date: | 07 17 1953 |
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| Description: | Four members of the Madison Parks Department building the ramp on Midvale Avenue for the upcoming Madison Soap Box derby. Left to right: Vie Cramer, Don Ke... |
| Date: | 08 04 1953 |
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| Description: | Children walking along the sidewalk near the Hoffman Feed Company building, 503 Regent Street, which is being torn down to widen the street at the intersec... |
| Date: | 07 22 1954 |
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| Description: | City parks personnel, left to right: Carl J. Schultz, Herbert Gorman, Daniel Finn and Richard Gilliard put up the starting ramp on South Midvale Boulevard ... |
| Date: | 07 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of city streets department personnel Vincent Mongold (left), Gene Westbury, and Tony Cardarello Jr. The men helped set up the race t... |
| Date: | 05 21 1959 |
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| Description: | Robert Retzlaff (left), manager of the newly opened Ben Franklin variety store at 4204 Monona Drive, posing in the foreground on his store's first day of b... |
| Date: | 06 26 1959 |
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| Description: | Richard Brachman, an engineer, demonstrates his solution for the problem of mowing the grass on a steep slope near his home. He removed the handles of his ... |
| Date: | 09 22 1959 |
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| Description: | Ione Nelson, left and S. Janice Kee are standing next to the Wisconsin Free Library commission's new bookmobile. Ione Nelson is the public library consulta... |
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