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Senator Joseph McCarthy Eating Breakfast

Date: 11 06 1946
Description: Joseph R. McCarthy in the home of friends Urban and Margery Van Susteren of Little Chute, on the morning after his election to the U.S. Senate. Van Sustere...
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Mr. and Mrs. Robert La Follette, Sr.

Date: 1925
Description: Snapshot of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., and Belle Case La Follette taken shortly before his death.
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Secretary of Interior and Mrs. Ray Wilbur

Date: 10 07 1930
Description: United States Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur and his wife at the Northwest railroad station, with an unidentified man isolated by a masked back...
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George H. W. Bush

Date: 09 1990
Description: George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st President of the United States, with his wife, Barbara Pierce Bush. Bush was born on June 12, 1924 in Milton, Massachuset...
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Lyndon Johnson signs Medicare Bill

Date: 07 30 1965
Description: President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs the Medicare bill. Former President Harry S. Truman, "who started it all," is present with Mrs. Bess Truman, Hubert H...
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Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson

Date: 1963
Description: Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th President of the United States, is shown with his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, having an intense discussion, while seated in an...
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Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

Date: 1907
Description: Belle Case La Follette and Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., at Maple Bluff Farm. They are photographed during a relaxed moment in the yard.
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Governor and Mrs. Walter J. Kohler

Date: 11 05 1952
Description: Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr. and Charlotte Kohler, listening to the radio, kept a close tabulation of state and national election returns Tuesday night a...
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Governor Kohler and Wisconsin Flag

Date: 01 29 1954
Description: Governor and Mrs. Walter J. Kohler, Jr. holding a state flag requested for display by a Pacific Air Force hospital. Behind them some of the wall decoration...
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Mr. and Mrs. John E. Wise, Sr.

Date: 01 08 1955
Description: Wisconsin's new Secretary of State, Glenn M. Wise, pours coffee for her husband, John E. Wise, Sr., who is an electrical engineer with the state Industrial...
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President & Mrs. Cleveland Trade Card

Date: 1886
Description: The marriage of bachelor President Grover Cleveland to Frances Folsom, his 21-year old ward, in 1886 captured the nation's romantic imagination, a sentimen...
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Mr. & Mrs. Wendell Willkie with Governor & Mrs. Goodland

Date: 03 19 1944
Description: Governor Walter Goodland, Mrs. Willkie, Madge Goodland, and Wendell Willkie chatting in the governor's residence during the 1944 campaign.
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Wendell Willkie and Delegates

Date: 03 1944
Description: Republican Presidential candidate Wendell Willkie with Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Fellenz Jr. (R-Fond du Lac), during Willkie's 1944 campaign.
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Wendell Willkie and Delegates

Date: 03 1944
Description: Republican Presidential candidate Wendell Willkie with Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Fellenz Jr. (R-Fond du Lac), sitting at a banquet table in front of a large ph...
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Lord and Lady Halifax Visit

Date: 12 01 1944
Description: Lord and Lady Halifax with Wisconsin Governor Walter Goodland.
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Inaugural Reception at State Executive Residence

Date: 01 06 1947
Description: Pictured at the inaugural reception at the state executive residence are from the left: Mr. and Mrs. Claude Jasper, Parker Drive, and Lieutenant Governor ...
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Governor Walter and Madge Goodland

Date: 1946
Description: Governor Walter Goodland and his wife Madge in their kitchen pickling pears.
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Senator and Mrs. McCarthy

Date: 10 12 1953
Description: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and his new bride, the former Jean Kerr, arrive at the federal building in New York City where a hearing concerning security ris...
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Chiang Kai-Shek and Madame Chiang Kai-Shek

Date: 05 1950
Description: Snapshot of Chiang Kai-Shek and Madam Chiang Kai-Shek as they greet American reporters at their home in Taipei, only a few months after fleeing Mainland Ch...
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Joe McCarthy Christmas Greeting

Date: 12 1954
Description: The 1954 Christmas card of Jeanne and Joseph R. McCarthy, mailed at about the time he was censured by the Senate. Handwritten on the inside the card says,...

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