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| Date: | 02 21 1961 |
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| Description: | Public hearing on the proposed abolition of the House Un-American Activities committee at the Wisconsin State Capitol. All eyes are watching the movie "Ope... |
| Date: | 02 21 1961 |
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| Description: | Public hearing on the proposed abolition of the House Un-American Activities committee at the Wisconsin State Capitol. The Assembly chamber is overflowing ... |
| Date: | 02 21 1961 |
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| Description: | Public hearing on the proposed abolition of the House Un-American Activities committee at the Wisconsin State Capitol. Emil Muelver, Milwaukee, listens to ... |
| Date: | 02 21 1961 |
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| Description: | Public hearing on the proposed abolition of the House Un-American Activities committee at the Wisconsin State Capitol. University of Wisconsin Professor Ed... |
| Date: | 01 22 1959 |
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| Description: | Photograph of Gov. Gaylord Nelson delivering a speech at a podium asking the state's lawmakers to help create a Wisconsin Economic Resources Commission to ... |
| Date: | 01 14 1959 |
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| Description: | Lieutenant Governor Philleo Nash gavels the Wisconsin State Senate to order for the 1959 session. He is a Democrat from Wisconsin Rapids. |
| Date: | 05 25 1931 |
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| Description: | Governor Philip La Follette in the governor's office, signing extradition papers for George W.E. Perry aka "Jiggs" "Blue Beard," with Samuel Becker, execut... |
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| Description: | A group of women are standing outdoors holding signs. One sign reads: "Fights Discrimination." Other signs read: "Kenosha Wis. NOW" and "ERA Wisconsin Wome... |
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| Description: | A group of women are standing together in front of a camper-van? Signs on the side and back of the vehicle read: "ERA," "ERA-YES!" and "Kenosha, Wis. N.O.W... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire posing with a poster detailing money saving bills he has introduced and how the savings can be used. |
| Date: | 03 1849 |
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| Description: | Section 2 of Assembly Bill 122 for the year 1849 which established equal suffrage for African-American men pending passage of a state-wide referendum vote.... |
| Date: | 03 1849 |
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| Description: | Section 1 of Assembly Bill 122 for the year 1849 which established equal suffrage for African-American men pending passage of a state-wide referendum vote.... |
| 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: | 06 12 1931 |
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| Description: | Governor La Follette signing old age pension bill. |
| Date: | 04 27 1964 |
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| Description: | Twenty-seven members of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) are linking arms and singing "We Shall Overcome" in the balcony of the Wisconsin Assembly Ch... |
| Date: | 05 03 1939 |
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| Description: | Governor Julius P. Heil sitting at his desk signing a bill, with four men looking on from behind. |
| Date: | 02 14 1933 |
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| Description: | Governor Albert G. Schmedeman signing mortgage bill which grants moratoriums to Wisconsin farm and home mortgages. Left to right: Senator William Shannors... |
| Date: | 02 04 1945 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Capitol Assembly Chamber mural, "The State of Wisconsin, its Past, Present, and Future," by Edwin Blashfield. Also shows Speaker's podium a... |
| Date: | 03 1849 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Wisconsin Assembly Bill 122 of 1849 which established equal suffrage for African-American men pending passage of a state-wide referendum vote. ... |
| Date: | 07 03 1974 |
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| Description: | Governor Patrick J. Lucey signing the Bill merging the University of Wisconsin and the state university system, with several onlookers surrounding him. The... |
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