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| Date: | 02 28 1941 |
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| Description: | Women's style show (for McCall's) at Manchesters Department Store with six female models wearing long dresses on stage, and a female announcer at the micro... |
| Date: | 03 16 1968 |
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| Description: | Senator Robert F. Kennedy announcing his candidacy for the office of President of the United States. The announcement took place in the Caucus Room of the ... |
| Date: | 11 15 1948 |
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| Description: | People at the speakers' table at the dinner marking the start of the University of Wisconsin's foundation's centennial campaign. From left are Herbert V. K... |
| Date: | 10 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Three women discussing the aims and accomplishments of the Madison Business and Professional Women's Club being broadcast on the WKOW "Woman's World" broad... |
| Date: | 04 19 1950 |
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| Description: | Pictured are Mrs. Gordon (Dolly) Harmon, at left, who will be the narrator for the Jaycettes' fashion show, and some of the group who will model vacation ... |
| Date: | 10 20 1946 |
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| Description: | Outdoor rally of Allis-Chalmers workers. A man is speaking into a microphone in the front and people stand on the sidewalk and the grassy rise in the backg... |
| Date: | 02 18 1950 |
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| Description: | Norman Ebron Band, members of American Federation of Musicians, segregated Local 587, play stand-up bass, coronet, clarinet and piano in front of a white a... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Protest on the Library Mall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in support of the grape boycott. A woman stands on the sidewalk speaking at a microphone... |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | A woman in a uniform places a lei of orchids around Margaret McGuire's neck as she accepts the role of Centennial Queen on a stage at the Wisconsin Centenn... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | President Jimmy Carter speaks to a small group of well wishers while Congressman David R. Obey looks on. Photographers are in the crowd. The space is decor... |
| Date: | 01 03 1955 |
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| Description: | Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John E. Wise) raises her hand while taking her oath of office before a robed judge. An audience looks on from the background. The origi... |
| Date: | 08 28 1955 |
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| Description: | Architect Frank Lloyd Wright being filmed for the Omnibus television program. Wright and apprentice Frances Nemtin are standing in front of the Unitarian M... |
| Date: | 08 28 1955 |
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| Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright on the grounds of the First Unitarian Society meeting house. Wright was being filmed for the Omnibus television program. The woman with... |
| Date: | 02 07 1985 |
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| Description: | David R. Obey of Wisconsin, chair of the Joint Economic Committee. Opposite him, (in the foreground) is Secretary of Agriculture John R. Block, testifying ... |
| Date: | 08 1995 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey presents a big check to representatives of Nicolet College. As chairman or ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee O... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Several men and women watch as Governor Patrick Lucey signs the Equal Rights Amendment. Lloyd A. Barbee (left), Marlin Schneider, two unidentified people, ... |
| Date: | 02 01 1983 |
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| Description: | Governor Tony Earl at the signing of the executive order creating the Wisconsin Women’s Council. At the end of the remarks he invites women from the legisl... |
| Date: | 03 14 1989 |
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| Description: | Secretary of State James Baker testifying before the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. Wisconsin Congressman David R. ... |
| Date: | 01 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Prom queen candidate Jean Riley of Green Bay (a.k.a. "Calamity Jean") appearing with two "bashful cowhands," who are singing on her behalf at the rally in ... |
| Date: | 04 06 1959 |
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| Description: | The Madison Police and Fire Commission explores a traffic accident involving Police Chief Bruce Weatherly and witnesses' claims that he was under the influ... |
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