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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Cabinet card of an informal full-length portrait. (Mrs. Ben) Jessie Jack Hooper relaxes in a chair. The portrait may have been taken at the Sawyer House in... |
| Date: | 07 16 1960 |
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| Description: | Several participants tell the early history of Mendota State Hospital at the centennial pageant. They are, left to right: Cecilia Shedleski, a nurse at the... |
| Date: | 03 23 1965 |
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| Description: | Members of Madison's Parent-Teacher Associations are attempting to win favor for the $6,450,000 school bond referendum by distributing booklets citing fact... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Jesus Salas, center, is the leader of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), a Chicano migrant workers' rights group started in the 1960s for the improvement of ... |
| Date: | 03 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Martha Hardin reading to Janet Brahn and Betty Thomsen at the nursery school established on the third floor of the home of University president, Charles A.... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A woman is working on a tufting carpet loom. She is leaning into the loom which has a large number of individual strands of yarn on top, and gray material,... |
| Date: | 04 1960 |
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| Description: | When this young man arrived in Madison for a spring vacation visit and no one met him at the bus station, Travelers' Aid stepped in to help. Travelers' Aid... |
| Date: | 01 02 1959 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Helen O'Malley (83), Waunakee, discusses attending the Governor's Inaugural Ball at the State Capitol with her son, David. Mrs. O'Malley, a dedicated ... |
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| Description: | Refugees stand behind supplies in a food warehouse at a displaced persons camp; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wisconsin Survivors... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Fall River Canning Company's president William Evans stands in the center with migrant farm workers around him after their walkout. Eighty workers of His... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Chicano migrant farm workers being transported to a field on a cold Texas winter morning on the back of a truck. This photograph is a part of Wisconsin-n... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Standing on the hood of the car in a striped short-sleeved shirt and sunglasses is Salvador Sanchez, an organizer for Obreros Unidos (United Workers), a Wi... |
| Date: | 03 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Vocational school students and Easter Seal Workers stuffing envelopes for the Easter Seal campaign for mailing to Madison residents. Pictured left to right... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Marilyn Schultz of International Harvester's Lincoln office models a sweater made of twine as part of a district office promotional event. A sign above rea... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Members of a Des Moines United Packinghouse Workers of America local picket outside a Woolworth's store to demonstrate their opposition to segregation of W... |
| Date: | 01 16 1952 |
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| Description: | Organizers of a new YWCA-USO hostess unit discussing social events at Truax Field. Left to right are Mrs. Harris G. (Marion) Allen, senior hostess; Miss Do... |
| Date: | 06 23 1959 |
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| Description: | Dane County foster parents are honored during the statewide observance of Foster Parents' Week. Approximately 200 foster parents attended the meeting held ... |
| Date: | 05 19 1965 |
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| Description: | Four women interested in migrant workers are shown examining foods picked annually by migrants. They will participate in a meeting sponsored by Covenant Pr... |
| Date: | 08 24 1967 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of 150 workers rallying as a part of Obreros Unidos (United Workers) protest against poor working conditions of migrant farm workers in the S... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | A group of National Farm Workers Association members and supporters applauding rally speakers in front of Waushara County Courthouse. A march to the rally ... |
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