Part 9 (PH 464, PH 1133, PH 1372, PH 1400, PH 1481, PH 2026, PH 2216, PH 2581, PH 4370, PH 4370 (5), Audio 354A/1-2): Additions, circa 1870-1970, undated
Physical Description: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box), 48 photographs, 35 negatives (35 mm), 91 transparencies, and 2 tape recordings 
Scope and Content Note: Photographs and tape recordings from various exhibits and gatherings of the Friends of the Wisconsin Historical Society, documenting its activities on behalf of the state's history and culture.

Women's Auxiliary

Members and officers at several meetings and events, 1950-1951

Mormon house near Burlington, Wisconsin, circa 1955
Note: Zinc mounted line cut printing block of the Mormon house near Burlington, Wisconsin, made circa 1955, with proof, used by the Women's Auxiliary of the Wisconsin Historical Society on various announcements.

Special committee, 1961
Note: Photographs created by Paul Vanderbilt showing members of a special committee of the auxiliary engaged in examining ceramic objects in the collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1961.

Exhibits

"The Village Green: where the peoples of Wisconsin meet," exhibits, 1956-1957
Note: Exhibit on history of ethnic groups in Wisconsin ran from October 1956 to February 1957.

Color transparencies featuring costumed mannequins and objects from different immigrant groups

Negatives of handicraft objects: apparel, embroidery, household utensils, flatiron, decorated eggs, wooden shoes

Tape recordings

Speech by Marshall Arrich of Milwaukee

Tour and description of exhibit

"Tides of Taste," 1957-1958
Note: Color transparencies, 1957-1958, consisting of images of displays of china, silver, and other decorative objects arranged as period table settings for the exhibition "Tides of Taste" at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, sponsored and in part executed by the Women's Auxiliary of the Society.

"They did it themselves - fifty years or more ago," 1955
Note: Color transparencies, 2 x 2 inches mounted in glass, photographed by George Gamski, Madison, Wisconsin, of displays and installations of an exhibition, "They did it themselves - fifty years or more ago," October 1955, sponsored by the Women's Auxiliary of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The exhibition consisted of household objects and women's handicraft from 1890-1910 with period settings and costumed mannequins.

Memorial Art Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1960
Note: Color transparencies of an exhibition sponsored by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin Women's Auxiliary at the Memorial Art Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 1960. The exhibition featured American period furniture of the 18th and 19th centuries in group arrangements with prints, paintings, ceramics displayed as part of the settings.

Wisconsin history exhibit
Note: An exhibition of photographs of family groups and community groups from circa 1870 to 1970 gathered from the Visual Material Archive at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The images document the state's history and show how people used the camera to preserve and celebrate the rituals and events of everyday life.