Part 1 (PH call numbers): Visual Materials (Original Collection), 1945-1974
Physical Description: 5.1 cubic feet of photographs (6 archives boxes, 1 flat box, 11 folders, and 9 oversize folders), 10.0 cubic feet of negatives (28 negative boxes and 1 archives box), and 0.1 cubic feet of contact sheets (1 folder)  
Scope and Content Note: Photographs and negatives consisting primarily of black and white 4x5 inch and 35 mm negatives, made for the State Journal, including extensive aerial views of Madison and the surrounding area, events and places near Madison including sports, construction, cooking, fashion, family life, “Cheese Days” in Monroe, and “Little Norway.” Also includes Monona Terrace and Convention Center project and the University of Wisconsin-Hill Farms development, scale models of agricultural machinery, dams and waterways, visually impaired individuals and their guide dogs, and activities of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

Prints

Events and places near Madison, Wisconsin, 1949-1954
Note: Includes images of buildings, meetings, and celebrations, probably made for feature articles in the Wisconsin State Journal.

Physical Description: 0.8 cubic feet (2 archives boxes) 

Photographs of scale models of agricultural machinery, 1952
Note: Machinery manufactured primarily by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company during the nineteenth century and held in the collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Images were created for feature stories on the models published in the Wisconsin State Journal, December 12, 1952 to February 1, 1953.

Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (12 photographs in 1 folder) 

Celebration of “Cheese day” by Swiss descendants at Monroe, Wisconsin, 1955
Note: Images include groups of people in costume, with an alpenhorn, family register, and wine cask.

Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (18 photographs in 1 folder) 

“Little Norway,” 1951
Note: A group of buildings of folk Norwegian architecture and a Norwegian handcraft museum in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin. Images include views of the buildings, and images of staff from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and the University of Wisconsin selecting objects for an exhibit.

Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (9 photographs in 1 folder) 

“Blind individuals and seeing eye dogs,” circa 1955
Note: Visual impaired undergoing training in self-sufficiency with the assistance of guide eye dogs on a practice trip away from their training station at the Double A Kennel in Cambridge, Wisconsin, to Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin.

Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (6 photographs in 1 folder) 

Gun club members, 1956
Note: Photographs of members of a gun club in Beetown, Wisconsin, shooting antique muzzle-loading rifles. Images include molding bullets, loading rifles, firing at an outdoor range, and examining targets.

Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (17 photographs in 1 folder) 

Dams and waterway system, 1957 October
Note: Photographs of the St. Lawrence Power dam, Long Sault Dam, and Long Sault Canal on the New York border with Canada, and elements of the St. Lawrence waterway system, under construction.

Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (14 photographs in 1 folder) 

Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin, circa 1945-1955
Note: Coughlin was a newspaper sports writer, fundraiser, and philanthropist in Madison, Wisconsin.

Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (8 photographs in 1 folder) 

Publicizing the activities of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, circa 1945-1955
Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (98 photographs in 1 folder) 

Madison, Wisconsin circa 1955-1960s
Note: Photographs, circa 1955-1970s, (black and white 35 mm and 4x5) taken by Wisconsin State Journal photographer John Newhouse. Aerial views of downtown Madison, Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin, and near west side of Madison, are well-represented. Also included are images of the Monona Terrace project.

Physical Description: 1.2 cubic feet of prints (3 archives boxes) 

Aerial views

General

Highways

Industrial views

Madison- Capitol area

Madison- General

Madison-Hill Farms and Hilldale Shopping Center

Rural areas

University of Wisconsin

Photograph of people recording audio

Building construction

Business and technology

Elevated walkways

General

Hospital

Individuals, portraits

"M" stones and maintenance, near Platteville, Wisconsin

Methodist Church, Mount Horeb, Wisconsin

Monona Terrace project

Performing arts

Recreation

Residences

Exteriors

Fixtures and appliances

Interiors

Sciences

Street views

U.S. Air Force

Wisconsin State Journal photographs
Note: Photographs from negatives made by Newhouse, assigned negative control series WHi(N48), to accompany Wisconsin State Journal news stories. Included are images of sports activities, construction, cooking, fashion, local events, and family life. Towns represented include Blue Mounds, Boscobel, Cambridge, DeForest, Dodgeville, Edgerton, Lake Mills, Linden, Madison, Middleton, Monroe, Monticello, Mount Horeb, New Glarus, Oregon, Platteville, Portage, Reedsburg, Sauk City, Soldiers Grove, Whitewater, and Wisconsin Dells.

Physical Description: 0.2 cubic feet (2 folders) 

State capitol and its environs from King Street in Madison, Wisconsin, 1955
Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (1 photograph in 1 oversize folder) 

City-County Building under construction in Madison, Wisconsin, 1955
Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (1 photograph in 1 oversize folder) 

Skyline of buildings, including the state capitol, taken from the roof of the University of Wisconsin library in Madison, Wisconsin, 1955
Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (1 photograph in 1 oversize folder) 

Boy with a broken back in a hospital bed drawing a cartoon, circa 1950
Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (1 photograph in 1 oversize folder) 

Visit by the Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce to the Wisconsin Dells, circa 1958
Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (1 photograph in 1 oversize folder) 

Aerial photographs

Madison, Wisconsin, and surrounding areas, circa 1949-1954
Note: The images were created by John Newhouse, probably for stories in the Wisconsin State Journal, and by the Claberne Studio, De Pere, Wisconsin.

Physical Description: 1.0 cubic foot (1 archives box and 1 flat box) 

Madison, Wisconsin, circa 1945
Physical Description: 0.2 cubic feet (2 folders) 

Catholic seminary on the north shore of Lake Mendota, Wisconsin, 1955
Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (1 photograph in 1 oversize folder) 

Water reservoir at Verona, Wisconsin, 1955
Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (1 photograph in 1 oversize folder) 

Farm in winter, probably in Wisconsin, 1955
Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (1 photograph in 1 oversize folder) 

Gonsted House, designed by architect Herb Fritz, in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, 1955
Physical Description: 0.1 cubic feet (1 photograph in 1 oversize folder) 

Negatives

Negatives and contact sheets, 1960s-1970s
Note: Primarily features and news assignments for the Wisconsin State Journal; aerial views of Madison, Wisconsin are included.

Physical Description: 2.4 cubic feet of negatives (6 negative boxes) and 0.1 cubic feet of contact sheets (1 folder) 

Madison, Wisconsin circa 1955-1960s
Note: Negatives, circa 1955-1970s, (black and white 35 mm and 4x5) taken by Wisconsin State Journal photographer John Newhouse. Aerial views of downtown Madison, Wisconsin, the University of Wisconsin, and near west side of Madison, are well-represented. Also included are images of the Monona Terrace project.

Physical Description: 0.4 cubic feet of negatives (1 archives box and 1 negative box) 

35 mm

Aerial views

Belmont and Cassville, Wisconsin

Madison, Wisconsin

Reedsburg, Wisconsin

Watertown, Wisconsin

4x5

1957 Parade and East Hill Farms

Air, Segoe Road block

East Hill Farms and Hill Farms

East Hill Farms

Looking east toward Capitol

Overall

Pool site, 1956

Hill Farms

Lincoln impersonator, Wisconsin Dells centennial

Truax across Monona Bay

University Hill Farms, 1959 June

South

West

North

[Photographer's note: seconds]

University of Wisconsin students Christmas party, 1955 December 10

UW Shopping Center [Hilldale Mall]

Frank Lloyd Wright project, dock line pix, Monona

35 mm film format negatives
Physical Description: 0.4 cubic feet (4 negative boxes) 

4x5-inch safety film negatives
Physical Description: 6.8 cubic feet (17 negative boxes) 

Part 2 (Audio 126A, SC 3225): Additions, 1967-1974
Physical Description: 125 audio recordings and 0.1 cubic feet of papers (1 folder) 
Scope and Content Note: Audio includes interviews made by Newhouse for the use in writing his newspaper articles. Several interviews are with people who knew President Herbert Hoover and an interview with Joel Geier, National Chairman of the International Socialists on “Watergate: Nixon's Last Crisis.” Also includes a November 26, 1956 interview with Newhouse by Clement Sylvestro of the Historical Society staff concerning controversy over Madison Police Chief Bruce Weatherly which led to a 1956 disciplinary hearing. Newhouse comments on the people involved, their political ambitions, and related issues such as court testament of juveniles and a survey by the Northwest Traffic Institute, and gives his own favorable impression of Weatherly. Notes are available for a few recordings and have been noted in the contents.

Interview with John Newhouse regarding Madison police chief Bruce Weatherly, 1956 November 26
Scope and Content Note: Interview conducted by Clement Sylvestro of the Wisconsin Historical Society, concerning controversy over Madison Police Chief Bruce Weatherly which led to a 1956 disciplinary hearing. Newhouse discusses the people involved, their political ambitions, his impression of Weatherly, and related issues such as court treatment of juveniles, as well as a survey by the Northwest Traffic Institution.

Alice R. Longworth, 1967 June 21

Admiral Joel T. Boone, 1967 June 22-23

Ezra Taft Benson, 1967 November 15

Thomas T. Thalken, 1968 July 11

Dell Agese, 1968 October 7

Frank Caro, New York City 1968 December 2

Milton M. Brown, undated

J. Clifford Folger, 1969 June 3

Elianor Lansing Dulles, 1969 September 13

Mrs. Sidney A. Mitchen, 1969 September 14

F. Trubee Davison, 1969 September 14

Turner Catledge, 1969 September 15

Walter Livingston, 1969 October 13

James H. Douglas, 1969 October 13

Mrs. Preston Davie [Eugenie Mary "May" Ladenburg Davie?], 1969 October 15

Mrs. Oswald B. Lard, 1969 October 17

Henry C. Wolfe, 1969 October 17

Dr. Maynard Wheeler, 1969 October 31

Walter Hoving, 1969 October

Fred G. Clark, 1969 October 29

Robert Moses, 1969 October 31

Henry Hazlitt, 1969 November 19

Arthur Ringland, 1969 November 29

President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1970 January 8

Kay Baden Sexson, wife of Paul A. Sexson, Pheonix, Arizona 1970 January 13

Birge M. Clark, Pennsylvania 1970 January 19

Notes

Mary B. Shockley, Menlo Park, California 1970 January 20

Robert E. Creighton, 1970 January 28

Earl Warren, Right Honerable Chief Justice (confidential memo) 1970 January 30

J. Harold Stewart, 1970 May 7

Notes

Elizabeth Shaler Brouha, wife of Lucien Brouha, Sutton, Vermont 1970 July 16

Notes

Harold M. Fleming, Antrim, New Hampshire 1970 June 17

Don K. Price, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1970 July 20

Charles Francis Adams, Lexington, Massachusetts 1970 July 29

Alonzo Fields, White House domestic staff, Bedford, Massachusetts 1970 July 24

Notes

Herbert Feis, York, Maine 1970 July 25

Katurah and Phillip P. Brooks, Washington, D.C. 1970 September 1

Soloman C. Hollister, Ithaca, New York 1970 October 26

Alan J. Gould, Elmira, New York 1970 October 27

Perry M. Shoemaker, Tampa, Florida 1970 November

Fred Farrar, New York 1970 November 11

John J. McCloy, 1970 December 2

Marshall W. Tuthill, Delray Beach, Florida undated

Lieutenant General Andrew T. McNamara, retired undated

Victor W. and Elizabeth A. Flickenger, undated

Charles B. Harding, New York City 1971 March 22

Joan Dydo, 1971 April 28

James E. Hollingsworth, Mildred Harvey Hollingsworth undated

Notes

Calvin Hoffman, Sarasota, Florida 1971 April

Carter Monasco, 1971 June 12

Representative Chet Holifield of California, Washington, D.C. 1971 June 14

Representive Fred Schwengel of Iowa, Rayburn Building, Washington, D.C. 1971 June 14

Raymond Hagen, Washington, D.C. 1971 June 14

James Rae Ketchum, former White House Curator 1971 June 16

Admiral Felix Stump, Langley, Virginia 1971 June 28

Senator Mark O. Hatfield of Oregon, 1971 July 22

Thomas I. Norris, Assistant Comptroller General, Washington, D.C. 1971

James H. Rome, 1971 July 15

Robert H. Denton, Paramount Newsreel, Providence, Maryland undated

John C. Franklin interview by Robert Cubbedge, New York City 1971 July 16

Mary Lou Scanlan interview by Robert Cubbedge, New York City 1971 July 20

J. Elton Trueblood, Earlman College, Richmond, Indiana 1971 July 12

Mrs. Wau, undated

Dr. Harold H. Fisher, Hoover Institute, Stanford, California 1971 July 27

J.E. Wallace Sterling, Stanford, California 1971 July 28

Dr. James B. Amsell [or Curfell], Stanford University's Engineering Department, Applied Electronics Lab undated

Gunnar, undated

Clara Olson, undated

Kahn, undated

Deneral, undated

Rubinson/Urban League, undated

Zachman Il/Jimmy Cheatham(?), undated

Reesehouse, Tim Tillotson 1972 August

Judy Berison, undated

Earl Thayer, Minnesota Historical Society undated

Fran Terbilcov, Reib Coleman undated

Gamache, Boreyp(?) Laylmos undated

Dr. Norman(?), 1974 April

Betty Lattimer/Thayer, undated

Sandley, undated

Hilton and Conorlec(?), undated

Sarah, undated

Anita(?) Witte(?), undated

Senator [George] Aiken [of Vermont], interview by Fesley undated

Earl Thayer(?), undated

Layton and Geo, undated

Cloud Wampler Lay, undated

Peg Lynch interview by John Newhouse, undated

Sister Mary Ellen of St. Mary's hospital, undated

Myron Robinson of the Urban League, undated

Bob Hurlbut, undated

Rufus Wells, undated

MacClellan, undated

John Sonderegger on Governor Oscar Rennebohm, undated
Scope and Content Note: Sonderegger was Rennebohm's right hand man during his years a governor and as head of the Rennebohm chain of drug stores. Sonderegger discusses the gifts made by the Rennebohm Foundation and Rennebohm's philosophy of giving.

John Newhouse and Picture Taking Days, undated

Joel Geier, National Chairman of the International Soicialists - "Watergate: Nixon's Last Crisis" undated

Part 3 (MCHC77-102): Additions, 1945-1974
Physical Description: 0.8 cubic feet (2 archives boxes) 
Scope and Content Note: Additions, 1945-1974, including clippings of articles by Newhouse on local issues, especially Frank Lloyd Wright's Monona Terrace Project, the Monona Basin Project, city planning, and the Madison Public Housing Authority. Also contains personal correspondence from University of Wisconsin biochemist Karl Paul Link. Photographs and negatives from this accession likely among materials integrated into PH 4867.

Articles

The Weatherly Story, 1956-1962

Otto Festge donor probe, Welch "Contributions"

Bill Nathenson, 1965-1966

Moseley's, 1948

Waupun Prison, 1959

State Street, 1959-1960

Cancer, 1968

Delinquency, 1959

Black market meat, 1945

League of Women Voters, 1959

Downtown, 1959

Police, 1961

Civil War, 1961

Northwest traffic report/police/Superior Court, 1957-1958

Roundy retires, 1959

City tax expenditures, 1959

Miscellaneous, 1956-1969

MHA series, undated
Note: Missing July 4.

MHA, 1950

Public housing, 1950

Mayor Henry Reynolds retires, 1965

MHA/Public Housing, 1949-1951

Public Housing/MHA, 1949-1951

Monona Terrace/Monona Basin, 1956-1969

Capital Timeaftertimes, 1964
Note: April Fool's issue of Capital Times.

Monona Terrace/Monona Basin, 1964

Link, Karl Paul correspondence, 1955?, 1961-1974

Miscellaneous

City planning - miscellaneous publications