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| Date: | 08 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of six customers celebrating Bootleg Days at Arthur Janik's tavern "The Balcony Inn" at Lincoln and 33rd Streets. Arthur Janik was the propri... |
| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Schlitz train and group of revelers, celebrating the end of prohibition in Milwaukee. Schlitz Engine #8027 departs to deliver the first Schlitz beer at 12:... |
| Date: | 08 12 1932 |
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| Description: | RKO motion picture actress Raquel Torres christening the new model airplane manufactured in Madison by Orland Corben. Corben had flown the airplane that br... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Daisy Bates shakes hands with President Eisenhower at the Summit Conference. |
| Date: | 10 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Kathryn Piper, widow of Frank Piper and president of the Madison chapter of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) for 12 years prior to 1941, is ob... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt and national co-chair Leon Henderson (right) at a dinner sponsored by the Union for Democratic Action (later Americans for Democratic Act... |
| Date: | 03 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (second from the right), seated at the head table at a banquet meeting of the Dane County Young Republicans' Club. Other people ... |
| Date: | 12 20 1947 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men and women at the Madison Dye Works party. Included in the portrait on the left is an accordion player. One man sitting on the floor ... |
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| Description: | Rubber Workers during a workshop at the Highlander Folk School. Myles Horton on far left. |
| Date: | 05 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Retiring mail carrier, Mike Cawley, accepting an envelope containing a token of appreciation from Myrtle L. Hansen, clerk of circuit court at the Dane Coun... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Rosa Parks attending a Highlander Christmas vacation event for Clinton Black High School Students, the first integrated in the South. |
| Date: | 08 1956 |
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| Description: | Four women and a man eating at a table at a Civil Rights banquet at Highlander Folk School. Septima Clark, second from left. |
| Date: | 09 02 1957 |
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| Description: | 25th Anniversary event in the Highlander Folk School Library. Pictured are Rosa Parks, Myles Horton, Aubrey Williams, and Martin Luther King, Jr. among ot... |
| Date: | 1983 |
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| Description: | Eddie Carthan, the black mayor of Tchula, Mississippi, seen at the party celebrating the commutation of his sentence. Carthan was jailed on charges thought... |
| Date: | 12 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Dressed in Elizabethan costume during the University of Wisconsin Beefeaters' Dinner in Tripp Commons are: center, Richard Lewis, Eau Claire, president of ... |
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| Description: | A burlesque of the Bloch's marriage, taken shortly after the real ceremony. Left to right: Robert Vail, Robert Bloch, and Marion Bloch. Gauer said at the t... |
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| Description: | Angie Vail and Alice Bedard pose in an attempt to break up a staged fight between Robert Vail and Sprague Vonier, while Harold Gauer lies on the ground und... |
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| Description: | Robert Bloch (wearing eyeglasses), the author of Psycho, sitting at a table with Janet Leigh. His wife Marion Bloch stands behind him. The man in the bow t... |
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| Description: | Amusing portrait of the gang "spoofing" jazz and beatnik culture. Alice Bedard is receiving a hypo injection labeled "JAZZ" from harold Gauer while Robert ... |
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| Description: | A couple dances behind an oversized cut-out of a bottle of Seagrams Whiskey, with other people seated around them. Some are wearing fake eyes. |
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