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| Date: | 04 02 1945 |
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| Description: | U. S. Navy V-12 Chorus, sailors and WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), at the Stock Pavilion, "3rd Anniversary Happy Hour." |
| Date: | 02 07 1945 |
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| Description: | Female clerk selling items to Naval trainees at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio) ship's store. The store was located in a University of Wisconsin dor... |
| Date: | 12 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Large group of U.S. Naval Training School (Radio) trainees, at the Van Hise dormitories, standing at the grave site of Sparky, with one man playing taps. ... |
| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Crowd with two sailors hugging each other. Sailor with his back to the camera is Seabee B. O. Pledger; other sailor is unknown. They are celebrating V-J Da... |
| Date: | 02 29 1944 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of group of women gathered around a table. "Leap year baby" of 1924, Anita Burr, is shown with a birthday cake, after enlisting in t... |
| Date: | 06 17 1944 |
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| Description: | The Memorial Union Campacabana club was attended by (at the top) Pvt. Donald Christesen, Bradley, Mich., and Kathleen McGuine, Madison. Seated are: La Vonn... |
| Date: | 07 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Crowd of Navy men and women in the stands watching the Madison-area amateur baseball all-stars in a game against the Navy's Great Lakes Bluejackets at Bree... |
| Date: | 06 28 1945 |
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| Description: | Vice-Admiral Marc A. Mitscher stands with his mother, Mrs. Oscar A. Mitscher (left), and smiles at his wife, Frances Smalley Mitscher, after a reunion at h... |
| Date: | 06 28 1945 |
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| Description: | Vice-Admiral Marc A. Mitscher sitting at the dining room table waiting for breakfast to be served to him, his wife Frances Smalley Mitscher (left), and mot... |
| Date: | 07 25 1945 |
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| Description: | Lieut. Albert L. David showing his wife, Georgia, the souvenirs he brought from the capture of the German U-505 underseas craft. He stood two days and nigh... |
| Date: | 01 21 1948 |
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| Description: | Chief Petty Officer Earl Woodward of the Madison navy recruiting office installing newly elected officers of the Navy Mothers' club. From the left are: Mrs... |
| Date: | 11 29 1949 |
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| Description: | Naval Reserve sailors Ralph Bakken (left), and Richard J. Nelson show a ship's maneuvering or plotting board to Irene Strand, second from the left, and Kay... |
| Date: | 11 29 1949 |
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| Description: | Pictured while enjoying refreshments are, from left to right: Bruce Cartter, Jr., Doris Evans, James Evans, and Elizabeth (Mrs. Bruce, Sr.) Cartter, at the... |
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| Description: | William Howard Taft (S9/15/1857 – 3/8/1930), the 27th President of the United States (3/4/1909 – 3/4/1913), wearing a top hat and sitting in a boat with a ... |
| Date: | 12 04 1951 |
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| Description: | Navy Radioman Burton Fischer is shown on a cot as he donates blood during a blood drive for naval reservists from the naval reserve training center. At lef... |
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| Description: | A view of a formation of sailors during an exhibition drill at Naval Station Newport, established in 1883. A United States flag and military buildings stan... |
| Date: | 06 17 1952 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Mary Ellen Fletcher used an inheritance to fly her mother and father in-laws from Birmingham, England to Madison to witness their sons graduation from... |
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| Description: | Two instructors, Beatrice and Leon Lamoreux, teaching Naval students telegraphy at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Ceremony beneath the guns on board the U.S.S. Wisconsin. A number of spectators and sailors are seated in the foreground, and uniformed sailors line... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Six Coastguardsmen pose with an officer on the shore at the Coast Guard Station at Baileys Harbor. The men are identified as (left to right) Reinhart Hicke... |
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