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| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Visitors of Milwaukee's sixth annual Midsummer Festival. Men and women walk on the lakefront walkways. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A small crowd gathers for a Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) ceremony under an open air structure, probably in the Wisconsin Dells. Two men in ceremonial dress stand i... |
| Date: | 06 14 1940 |
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| Description: | Boy Scouts and others recite the Pledge of Allegiance during Madison's first public Flag Day ceremony held at the UW football stadium. |
| Date: | 09 19 1942 |
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| Description: | Presidential Tour - Series IV. Official party views women at work in Allis Chalmers factory. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is looking through rear wind... |
| Date: | 10 1942 |
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| Description: | Governor Julius P. Heil (1876-1949) speaks to Shawano High School students and others during his gubernatorial re-election campaign. He arrived during the ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Territorial Capitol, a building rented by the Legislature for 46 days in 1836. Caption from calendar: "Wisconsin's first Capitol — Belmont — Lafa... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Goodland and his wife Madge in their kitchen pickling pears. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Smith's Store, featuring a glass topped case filled with merchandise. Pails and a large light fixture hang from the ceiling, and boxes of ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Color guards marching past the Wisconsin State Capitol carrying flags as a crowd looks on. |
| Date: | 09 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the sideways launching of Hull 418, the Detroit Edison at Manitowoc Shipbuilding, Inc. A group of people are gathered at the wharf ... |
| Date: | 07 12 1956 |
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| Description: | The front of the Wisconsin Historical Society building taken from the Library Mall. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Spectators near the grandstand at the Road America sports car race. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | A crowd gathers to watch men and women dance the polka at the Verona Legion Hall. A man plays a banjo in the background. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | The State Historical Society of Wisconsin building and grounds after a snowstorm. State Street is on the far left, with Bascom Hill in the background. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | A bust of George Washington in the Grand Army of the Republic Civil War memorial hall on the top floor of the Wisconsin State Capitol. This photograph was ... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Color postcard of the exterior of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin from across the Library Mall. The University of Wisconsin Memorial Library is o... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Boats moored at a boat slip. In the foreground is a bench near a concrete wall over which rope is hanging in loops. |
| Date: | 09 1963 |
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| Description: | Harness racing at a County Fair. The horses pulling sulkies are making the turn in front of the grandstand. Another building and trees are in the backgroun... |
| Date: | 06 1968 |
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| Description: | An older gentleman with a handlebar mustache is handing out American flags to Cub Scouts. Several Scouts are drinking bottles of soda pop. |
| Date: | 05 26 1969 |
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| Description: | Cub Scouts marching in a Memorial Day parade. Two scouts are holding flags, and spectators are in the background. |
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