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| Description: | Sherman M. Booth, anti-slavery editor, shown seated reading newspaper. |
| Date: | 11 10 1956 |
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| Description: | Bet winner and Eisenhower supporter Edwin L. Warner enjoys his payoff from bet loser and Adlai Stevenson backer John Shaat, as Shaat tows Warner along the ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Carrie Chapman Catt, activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement. |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Elisha W. Keyes (1828-1910) a prominent Madison attorney who was appointed Madison postmaster by Abraham Lincoln in 1861. From ... |
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| Description: | Portrait of French Indian men who made the trip to Washington via the Mississippi River to sign the 1854 Treaty ceding lands in both Minnesota and Wisconsi... |
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| Description: | A political cartoon entitled "The Hercules of Labor saving his Country" depicting a man with a sword lopping the heads off a double-headed snake, which is ... |
| Date: | 07 22 1905 |
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| Description: | A cartoon titled "The First Mountain To Be Removed" showing Uncle Sam and Theodore Roosevelt looking at a mountain shaped like a skeleton wearing a mask an... |
| Date: | 09 20 1891 |
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| Description: | Political cartoon from the Washington Post. It refers to the role of Jeremiah M. Rusk, the Secretary of Agriculture from Wisconsin, in negotiating i... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Rev. Claude Williams and his wife Joyce, probably photographed at their house in Birmingham, Alabama. Williams, a Presbyterian minister, was expelled from ... |
| Date: | 10 10 2008 |
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| Description: | A woman is reading "Sarah Palin — A New Kind of Leader" at the entrance of the McCain rally. |
| Date: | 04 13 1954 |
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| Description: | The Dane County Republican Women's Club plans bridge parties to raise funds. Seated at a table, left to right are: Christine Beggs, Helen Karberg, and Fran... |
| Date: | 10 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Kohler being is presented with a 147-foot petition bearing signatures of 5,000 area residents seeking to ban the diversion of sewage from t... |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (second from the right) confers with Scott Lilly, a top policy advisor, during a hearing of the House Budget Committee. |
| Date: | 03 23 1983 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) speaking on behalf of Wisconsin dairy interests to the Dairy Subcommittee of the House Agriculture Committee al... |
| Date: | 08 08 1973 |
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| Description: | At a press conference northern representatives joined together to press their respective states to use newly appropriated funds to improve U.S. Highway 2 f... |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey, with his back to the camera, chats with two of his constituents at the Clark County Fair. |
| Date: | 1988 |
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| Description: | Texas political activist and broadcaster James Hightower at a political event for Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey. |
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| Description: | Fred Wertheimer, (fourth from the right) of Common Cause, delivers bags of citizen petitions to Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, (third from the left),... |
| Date: | 06 1986 |
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| Description: | Jerry Zarecki (in the hat), president of the Portage County Farmers Union, presents Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey with one folder of petitions collec... |
| Date: | 10 1969 |
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| Description: | Individuals at the dedication of the Wausau Public Library. From the left: Kermit Goertz, president of the local library board; Henry C. Ahrnsbrak, chairma... |
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