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| Date: | 05 14 1950 |
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| Description: | President Harry S. Truman greets a crowd from the back platform of a NorthWestern train at the Commercial Ave. crossing. Others with him from the left are... |
| Date: | 05 14 1950 |
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| Description: | President Harry S. Truman getting out of a car outside the Field House, trailer housing in the background. He came for a 5 1/2 hour visit, gave a "peace" a... |
| Date: | 04 1963 |
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| Description: | John F. Kennedy and another man by a white car at West Palm Beach. The caption on the back of the photograph reads, "on Lake Worth while visiting Fred and ... |
| Date: | 11 05 1932 |
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| Description: | Herbert Hoover stands with Governor Kohler on the back of a train during a campaign visit. The man in the hat holding the rail of the train car is U.S. Sec... |
| Date: | 12 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Charles H. Cashin (right) of Stevens Point being sworn in by Clerk of Court Herbert C. Hale as the U.S. Attorney for the Western Wisconsin District. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Destroying slot machines and other illegal gambling devices at Law Park. From L to R: John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigaret tax division; ... |
| Date: | 09 04 1943 |
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| Description: | Governor Goodland conferring with District Attorney John Grindell and Sheriff Aloys Klaas about gambling in Grant County. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg received a death sentence in 1951, not long after Joseph R. McCarthy burst into the headlines with his charges a... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | View of the doors of the back of a police vehicle. An American flag sticker is visible in the window. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Myles Horton watching as the local sheriff puts a padlock on Highlander Folk School, following a trial in which Highlander was accused of propagating Commu... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Mothers and infants at a demonstration against the war in Vietnam. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Robert Warren, then the District Attorney of Brown County, tries out a breathalizer machine. With him are Glenn Cunningham and Ray Bayley, officers of th... |
| Date: | 12 13 1948 |
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| Description: | The street directory for Maple Bluff was delivered by Marshall A.J. Taft around the Christmas season. The contents of the directory reveal the growth of Ma... |
| Date: | 06 28 1949 |
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| Description: | Police Chief Bruce Weatherly meeting with members of the National Federation of Republican Women's Clubs who were touring government offices while in Madis... |
| Date: | 03 30 1951 |
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| Description: | Thomas Fairchild, right, former Wisconsin Attorney General, is sworn in as United States Attorney for the Western Wisconsin District. D.M. Alsad, Clerk of ... |
| Date: | 02 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Attorney General Vernon W. Thompson sitting at his desk while signing an endorsement of the Madison observance of Crime Prevention Week. The nati... |
| Date: | 04 1997 |
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| Description: | Arrest of Nukewatch demonstrators at a Nevada test site. |
| Date: | 04 1960 |
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| Description: | In April 1960 a student uprising created a crisis within the South Korean government and the army was called out to keep the peace. Ultimately President Sy... |
| Date: | 01 18 1975 |
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| Description: | Negotiations between leaders of the Menominee Warrior Society and the American Indian Movement with General Hugh Simonson (in the Army jacket) of the Wisco... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Negotiations between Neil Hawpetoss, a leader of the Menominee Warrior Society that had seized the Alexian Novitiate at Gresham in January 1975, and a memb... |
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