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Wisconsin Votes: Archives Week Celebrates Politics
In this presidential election year, Archives Week features electoral politics, and the campaign and voting activities that sweep Wisconsin every four years. Archives Week, a Wisconsin Historical Records Advisory Board program, promotes better understanding and appreciation of historical records. See images of Wisconsin and American politics, personalities, elections, and campaigns at Politics and Elections: A Record in Documents and Pictures.
Just a click away you will find photographs of "Fighting" Bob La Follette speaking to a crowd from the back of a wagon, women campaigning for the vote, posters promoting candidates, cartoons lampooning politicians, African-Americans demonstrating for civil rights and average people exercising their right to vote.
The new web pages also help guide visitors to materials through the Historical Society's online catalogs. In addition to primary source materials held in the Society's archives, books in the Society library reflect American politics in all its myriad forms and varieties, and can be borrowed through most local libraries. For 158 years the Wisconsin Historical Society has documented Americans actively participating in politics and the electoral process. Written records and photographs capture vital information about the issues, politicians, campaigns, elections and outcomes central to state and national politics.
The Historical Society mounted these new Web resources to commemorate Wisconsin Votes, the theme of Archives Week 2004. Archives Week, October 17-23, is a program of the Wisconsin Historical Records Advisory Board designed to foster greater understanding of the importance of archives in Wisconsin. For information about the Society's new political content on the Web, contact Rick Pifer. For assistance in finding politically related material at the Society, contact the Archives Reference Desk at 608-264-6460.
:: Posted October 14, 2004
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