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Filter: Subject of Signs and signboards
Filter: Creator Name of Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Baron's Department Store at 12-18 West Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 12 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Two African American women at a counter in the USO Service Club. There is a Coca-Cola machine behind a counter. Probably taken in First Unitarian Society P... |
| Date: | 10 04 1945 |
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| Description: | Madison Building and Construction Trades workers on the job at the Hoofer Glass Co. take time out to sign their pledge cards for one day's pay to the Madis... |
| Date: | 11 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Lt. Col. Frieda Nolte, officer in charge of the Madison post, welcomes Jenny Frothingham to a Thanksgiving dinner served by the Volunteers of America to 56... |
| Date: | 11 11 1952 |
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| Description: | Franz Haas, sheriff elect, washing the windshield of a car at his Standard Gas Station, 318 South Park Street. |
| Date: | 02 23 1955 |
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| Description: | Two grocery store employees placing Dean's Milk in grocery cart for a woman and her two children. |
| Date: | 01 23 1953 |
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| Description: | A woman purchases a can of Del Monte pineapple from a male clerk at Hi-Lo Supermarket, 2038 Jenifer Street. They are standing in front of a Del Monte "Suns... |
| Date: | 02 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from street towards the Oscar Fridblom's Health Food Store at a new location, 120 East Washington Avenue. A Heintz ketchup billboard is sitti... |
| Date: | 03 28 1944 |
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| Description: | League of Women Voters dinner ticket committee. Standing at left is Mary Rennebohm, and seated left to right are: Harriet J. Morris, Caryl A. Regan, Lucill... |
| Date: | 04 15 1944 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Goodland seated with handicapped children, probably in a movie theater. A large cutout of Dopey, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is o... |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Carol Ann Nelson and her sister, Patty, observing the sign stating the hours that lifeguards are on duty at the beach. |
| Date: | 06 26 1944 |
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| Description: | Two Wisconsin delegates to Republican Party National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. William Campbell, Oshkosh, left, and Arthur Prehn, Wausau, right. |
| Date: | 08 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Dr. Alanson H. Edgerton, a professor of guidance and director of guidance at the University of Wisconsin. His special interests lie in the stud... |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Victory Arms apartment building, 2420 - 2428 East Washington Avenue, built by Vogel Brothers. A sign partly behind the automobile parked at the curb reads,... |
| Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Betty Lou Borenson and Cynthia Alexander preparing University of Wisconsin-Madison Homecoming decorations in the Memorial Union student workshop. |
| Date: | 11 10 1944 |
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| Description: | Madison branch of the Filmite Oil Corporation building (a Trachte metal building), located at 828 East Main Street. Also pictured is W.K. Wilson, warehous... |
| Date: | 02 12 1945 |
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| Description: | Red Cross Motor Corps workers, Mrs. John (Marjorie) Haley and Mrs. E.W. (Thelma) Nystrom, loading a large basket of Navy kits into a truck to await distrib... |
| Date: | 08 11 1945 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Dane County Oil Company, 1854 South Park Street, following an explosion of an anti-freeze can which killed one person and injured five. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Lapham School students with gift boxes prepared by Junior Red Cross members to be sent to boys and girls overseas. Shown with teacher Gladys Halvorsen are,... |
| Date: | 03 15 1947 |
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| Description: | Joseph F. Krizek, Berwyn, Illinois, an honorary life member of the Elks Bowling Association of America, is shown on the left with Ray Farness and Harold La... |
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