Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-10 of 10

Photograph

Rosie the Riveter

Date: 09 1943
Description: A real-life Rosie the Riveter instructs journalists on the Aviation Writers' Tour at the Goodyear Aircraft Factory. This plant manufactured Martin Marauder...
Photograph

Consolidated Paper War Work

Date: 03 03 1944
Description: Consolidated Paper executive Jim Plzak (in the suit), watches as workers pull laminate from the Number #1 press at the Consolidated Paper Company. The lam...
Photograph

Gliders for the War

Date: 02 03 1944
Description: Employees of the Consolidated Paper Company Plastics Division constructing the floors of lightweight gliders to be used by the military.
Photograph

Gliders for the War

Date: 01 25 1943
Description: An employee of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company holds up a structure for it to be photographed. The object is thought to be a prototype...
Photograph

Gliders for the War

Date: 05 29 1943
Description: Four employees of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company with the first glider floor manufactured by the company for the military during World...
Photograph

Prototype Plastic Glider

Date: 05 07 1943
Description: Floor for a military glider constructed of a paper-based plastic laminate by the Plastics Division of Consolidated Papers of Wisconsin Rapids. This photog...
Photograph

Sigurd Olson Going Home

Date: 06 06 1946
Description: Sigurd F. Olson, standing, on a C-47 plane en route from Berlin to Frankfort, and then home to Minnesota.
Photograph

War Correspondent in B-24 Warplane

Date: 11 13 1943
Description: Robert Doyle in a Consolidated B-24 Liberator warplane during the Alexishafen strike. Alexishafen was a Japanese occupied airbase located on the northeast ...
Photograph

Three Men from Milwaukee Journal

Date: 03 1945
Description: From the caption that accompanied the image: "Fellow workers in civilian life, these Milwaukeeans met recently on Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall islands. ...
Photograph

Autographed Portrait of General Douglas MacArthur

Date: 02 1944
Description: An autographed quarter-length portrait of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur seated on an airplane near a window. He is wearing his uniform with a jacke...

Have Questions?

If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.

Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: