Outside the Wisconsin State Journal office on East Washington Avenue, circa 1881. David Atwood, second from left with white beard, and a partner created the paper after buying the former Madison Express.
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Copy desk in the Wisconsin State Journal newsroom in 1981. Lower front to left around the table: Stan Schmitt, Pete Hilan, John Aehl, Mark Tatge, Fred Reibe. Sports copy desk in background. Steve Hopkins reading the bulletin board.
When the newspaper that would become the Wisconsin State Journal first published on this day in 1839, life in Madison was so primitive that villagers were known to sleep among their chickens.
Wisconsin State Journal newsroom staff with at least 20 years of service in 1969.
L-R Front: June Dieckmann, Lawrence Fitzpatrick, Louise Marston, Helen M. Rupp
L-R Back: Harold Mcclelland, John Newhouse, Robert Bjorklund, Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin, Monte Mccormick, Joseph "Cappy" Capossela, Glenn Miller, Joe Dommershausen, Fred Curran
Outside the Wisconsin State Journal office on East Washington Avenue, circa 1881. David Atwood, second from left with white beard, and a partner created the paper after buying the former Madison Express.
Copy desk in the Wisconsin State Journal newsroom in 1981. Lower front to left around the table: Stan Schmitt, Pete Hilan, John Aehl, Mark Tatge, Fred Reibe. Sports copy desk in background. Steve Hopkins reading the bulletin board.
