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| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | The 1955 Alice in Dairyland, Barbara Brown, stands with four Alice Princesses in front of a Wisconsin Department of Agriculture/American Dairy Association ... |
| Date: | 08 30 1965 |
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| Description: | Press release photograph of a woman holding a picket sign reading "unfairly difficult driving problem" in mock protest of the difficulty of events involved... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates speaking with unidentified man wearing eyeglasses. Copies of her memoir "The Long Shadow of Little Rock", and plaques from the NAACP for the ni... |
| Date: | 02 07 1949 |
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| Description: | Committee members creating the guest program for "A Combine of Comedy" produced by Phi Beta. Left to right: Mrs. Gordon (Eleanor) Rowley, 904 Oakland Avenu... |
| Date: | 01 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Lindley V. (Virginia) Sprague and Mrs. George (Dorothy) Rentschler with the publicity materials they will use at information desks for the Madison Hea... |
| Date: | 10 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Depicting Florence Nightingale at the time of the Crimean war of 1853, a costumed Marie Timlin tends to "wounded soldier" Harold Hermanson. The enactment i... |
| Date: | 10 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Ardis Kirkpatrick, a private secretary to Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Grover Broadfoot, is wearing the costume of an 1800's typist while using a Sholes... |
| Date: | 10 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Nellie A. Brown, night supervisor of nurses, represents a modern nurse as she is pushing a patient in a wheelchair. Posing as the patient is Geneva F. McKa... |
| Date: | 10 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Joy Morrison poses as a worker in a drugstore during the 1800's. Pharmaceutical items on the wall were used in Wisconsin drugstores during the first 50 yea... |
| Date: | 10 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Joy Morrison dresses in costume while working in an old-time drug store at the Wisconsin Historical Society Museum. The pharmaceutical items were used in W... |
| Date: | 10 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Seated at her desk is Lorraine C. Jones, secretary to T.F. Wisniewski, a director at the State Board of Health. She is portraying a "modern" secretary as a... |
| Date: | 05 31 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Robert L. Sakrison, chairman of publicity for the Federated Garden Clubs flower show, arranging a bouquet of tulips. |
| Date: | 09 21 1954 |
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| Description: | Elenor Shefferman, woman's editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, points to a display of woman's page features to Emily Pokorny of the Century Club ... |
| Date: | 01 25 1958 |
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| Description: | Because Chester Hartel, husband of the Wisconsin state president of Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority is a polio victim, the three chapters of the sorority in M... |
| Date: | 10 16 1957 |
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| Description: | The Madison Visiting Nurse Service held its annual meeting at Blackhawk Country Club. The Visiting Nurse Service, a Red Feather agency, is the only service... |
| Date: | 06 21 1976 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a woman standing between two men. In the background is a Northwest Airlines airplane. The woman is wearing a crown, and a sash that reads... |
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