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| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
| Date: | 05 17 1934 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of 22 disabled American veterans who are Forget-Me-Not ice cream bars vendors. They are posing in front of 503 State Street with boxes of ic... |
| Date: | 05 18 1933 |
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| Description: | The Battle of Durham Hill during the milk strike, showing sheriff's deputies and National Guardsmen (sworn in as special deputies) charging farmers with ba... |
| Date: | 06 13 1944 |
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| Description: | Employees of Rennebohm Drug Store #2, 204 State Street, photographed in front of the store. The majority of the employees are waitresses. War bond posters ... |
| Date: | 09 1943 |
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| Description: | A real-life Rosie the Riveter instructs journalists on the Aviation Writers' Tour at the Goodyear Aircraft Factory. This plant manufactured Martin Marauder... |
| Date: | 11 08 1943 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of 9 men and 8 women employees (members of AFSCME Local 13 ?) in front of World War II Service plaque. |
| Date: | 09 09 1943 |
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| Description: | Ten Navy cooks and bakers watching meat carving demonstration by Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef. Soldiers include Robert W. Merryman, Vernon R.... |
| Date: | 08 17 1930 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre marquee at 209 State Street reads: "Eric Remarque's World's Best-Seller 'All Quiet on the Western Front,'" with usher and several bystander... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers inspect ball bearings at an International Harvester factory. The factory produced aerial torpedoes for the U.S. Military. |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Female workers assembling torpedoes for the U.S. Military at an International Harvester factory. Original caption reads: "This large group of women employe... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Woman working on a midget mill that cuts spiral grooves and moves at a rate of about 3500 r.p.m. The woman operating this machine was a former drill press ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle posing in Cuba with Major Antonio Lusson, and a group of male and female soldiers. |
| Date: | 05 25 1917 |
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| Description: | A World War I female factory worker dressed in a uniform repairing her own machinery. |
| Date: | 02 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Mable Sawtelle, a Red Cross nurses' aide, tends to baby Sara in a crib with doll. Poster on wall reads: "Rollier demonstrated the value of heliotherapy in ... |
| Date: | 04 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Rosemary Kreilkamp, 222 South Carroll Street, Alice Sanborn, 3005 Harvard Drive, and Ann L. Schmich, director of the Visiting Nurse Service in Madison, exa... |
| Date: | 02 12 1945 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Kenneth (Rachel) Shiels, a Red Cross liaison agent who works with servicemen and their families, is shown with Mrs. Elvin (Edna) Olson, whose husband,... |
| Date: | 05 17 1945 |
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| Description: | Evan M. Hughes, 68, a war-time replacement as doorman at the Capitol Theatre. Mr. Hughes had a son, Pvt. Robert E. Hughes, who was a prisoner of war by the... |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | A work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp marching to trucks to be conveyed to work at a local cannery. |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | German prisoner of war pitching pea vines into a viner at a cannery. |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | German prisoner of war camp with tents and fencing surrounding the area. Several people are on the grounds. Prisoners are working in the local cannery. |
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