Joseph “Roundy” Coughlin, sportswriter, “Sage of Mendota,” and one of Madison’s most beloved journalists, as photographed by Richard Vesey on the Capital Square during the 1940s. “Everybody read Roundy,” John Newhouse wrote in 1971, “. . . the taxicab driver, the waitress, and the late Gov. Oscar Rennebohm.” SHSW Vesey Collection

Capitol, view | Coughlin, Joseph “Roundy” (Reporter) | Newhouse, John (Reporter & Photographer) | Press Corps | Vesey, Richard (Photographer) | Wisconsin State Journal