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| Date: | 11 1924 |
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| Description: | Robert M. La Follette, Sr. speaking to a large crowd from the Wisconsin State Capitol steps. This speech marked the end of his independent campaign for the... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigarette tax division, using a sledge hammer to smash illegal slot machines. |
| Date: | 08 17 1936 |
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| Description: | Neils Ruud, 824 E. Dayton Street, receiving the first unemployment compensation check issued in Wisconsin from Voyta Wrabetz, chairman of the state industr... |
| Date: | 12 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Governor Walter S. Goodland sitting at his desk in the Capitol with pipe in hand. |
| Date: | 10 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Mr. Rose showing Clyde S. Tutton a Lord Calvert whiskey educational display in the Wisconsin Treasury Department, Beverage and Cigarette Tax Division offic... |
| Date: | 05 27 1941 |
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| Description: | Secretary of State Fred R. Zimmerman and Robert "Bob" Brayton, Public Relations Director or the American Automobile Association. They are standing in front... |
| Date: | 03 11 1942 |
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| Description: | Women office workers in "one of the many extra offices needed to handle the rush for birth certificates" in the Wisconsin State Office Building (Capitol An... |
| Date: | 06 02 1933 |
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| Description: | Governor Albert G. Schmedeman signing the Beer Bill with 14 men observing. |
| Date: | 04 25 1933 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of delegates to the 18th amendment repeal convention. Text on back of print reads: "Delegation to the Convention for Ratification of the 21s... |
| Date: | 04 05 1933 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Emma Grahn, 57 Wirth Court, Madison's first woman justice of the peace, with her two children: Lucille, 10, and Warren, 9. |
| Date: | 12 01 1932 |
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| Description: | Mayor James R. Law standing at the City Clerk's counter taking oath of office being administered by the city clerk, John Fahning. |
| Date: | 08 10 1931 |
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| Description: | William Busse, humane officer, holding abandoned baby, Bobby LaBue (real name Bobby Yarborough of Spokane Washington). |
| Date: | 10 07 1930 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 13 1930 |
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| Description: | Robed Wisconsin Supreme Court justices sitting in their courtroom in the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 09 16 1930 |
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| Description: | State Treasurer Sol Levitan sits surrounded by his employees in the State Treasurer's office as they celebrate his victory in the primary election. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Governor Walter J. Kohler, Sr., taken in the Governor's Office in the Wisconsin State Capitol on his Inauguration Day. |
| Date: | 10 30 1989 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Governor Tommy G. Thompson, a member of the Amtrak governing board, joins an unidentified Amtrak official as the train breaks a ceremonial banner... |
| Date: | 12 28 1948 |
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| Description: | City Clerk Alfred W. Bareis swears in police chief Bruce Weatherly. Alfred W. Bareis was mayor from 1955-1956. |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John Wise), Wisconsin's first woman Secretary of State, arranges a floral centerpiece on a table in front of a floral pattern of wallpa... |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John Wise), Wisconsin's first woman Secretary of State, posing in the kitchen cooking. |
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