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Vandalized Victor Berger Campaign Poster
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Campaign poster for Victor Berger (1860-1929), U.S. Senatorial campaign. The poster was used by Berger, Socialist candidate for the U.S. Senate in the campaign to succeed Paul O. Hustin, held in April 1918. Berger ran on the anti-war platform and was dubbed by all the loyalists as being a friend of the German Kaiser.The poster has been vandalized so the words "For an Early, General and Lasting Peace" is followed by the phrase "of the Russian kind" in parentheses. Additionally, the likeness of Berger has been sketched upon to portray him wearing an early Pickelhaube combat helmet, decorated with the iron cross, and wearing the typical moustache of the Kaiser.
1915
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Victor Berger Campaign Poster
1918
Campaign poster for Victor Berger (1860-1929), U.S. Senatorial campaign. This large poster documents Berger's campaign for United States Senate in a special election in April 1918. Berger, a co-fo...
Socialist gained fame in anti-war campaign
Aug 07, 1929
Milwaukee Sentinel
Berger long a dynamo of the socialists
Jul 17, 1929
Milwaukee Sentinel
Berger, a socialist who fascinated americans
Aug 31, 1929
Literary Digest
Eugene Debs and Victor Berger
1897
Formal studio portrait of Eugene Debs and Victor Berger.
Mrs. Meta Berger, widow of socialist leader in state, dies
Jun 17, 1944
Wisconsin State Journal
