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Poster

The Chilean People Will Overthrow Fascism

Date: 09 1973
Description: Part of a poster series celebrating President Salvador Allende after his death. Allende was elected president of Chile in 1970, and promoted the nationaliz...
Poster

Support the People’s War in Peru!

Date: 05 17 1980
Description: Poster in support of the People's War in Peru, which began in 1980. The war was instigated by a Maoist political group within Peru known as the Shining Pat...
Poster

May Day Poster

Date: 1982
Description: Poster for May Day urging rebellion in the United States. Poster shows a red and black screenprint of a brick wall with white letters, with the bricks expl...
Photograph

The Bride and Groom Laughing

Date: 08 16 1952
Description: Dave and Carol Leudtke react to some high jinks done to their vehicle.
Photograph

United Nation Official Addresses Madison Civics Club

Date: 10 14 1960
Description: Sir Leslie Munro of New Zealand, former president of both the United Nation General Assembly and Security Council, is in Madison to address the Madison Civ...
Photograph

Fidel Castro Rally and Protest on University of Wisconsin Campus

Date: 04 21 1961
Description: U.W. students protest a rally by the Wisconsin Socialist Club, hosts of an event at the Wisconsin Union theater supporting Fidel Castro and protesting the ...
Photograph

Anti-Communism Prayer Crusade

Date: 05 17 1961
Description: Five high school students participating in a anti-Communism crusade of young people from various parishes of the Catholic Diocese of Madison. The students ...
Photograph

Governor Heil at Desk

Date: 05 15 1941
Description: Governor Julius P. Heil sits at his desk signing a piece of paper. Behind him stand senators and assemblymen. A vase of flowers sits on the left corner of ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

"Neue Rheinische Zeitung" Page One

Date: 05 19 1849
Description: Page one of the "Neue Rheinische Zeitung," a German newspaper published by Karl Marx in Cologne.
Photograph

Anti-Castro Protest

Date: 04 21 1961
Description: Several sign-carrying U.W. students protest a rally by the Wisconsin Socialist Club, hosts of an event at the Wisconsin Union Theater supporting Fidel Cast...
Photograph

Hollington K. Tong, Nationalist China Ambassador to the United States

Date: 02 19 1958
Description: Hollington K. Tong, Nationalist China Ambassador to the United States (left) and O.C. Akre, Madison representative of Northwest Orient Airlines (center) ar...
Photograph

Adolpe Menjou at Edgwater Hotel

Date: 09 12 1958
Description: Movie and TV actor, Adolphe Menjou, right, with William Doudna, journalist for the Wisconsin State Journal. In 1947, Menjou was a witness in the Hou...
Manuscript

Trumbo Testimony Note

Date: 
Description: One of the pages of notes Dalton Trumbo created in preparation for testifying before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in October 1947.
Photograph

Mosinee Goes Communist for a Day: Proclamation

Date: 05 01 1950
Description: Caption on back is a newspaper clipping that reads: "A proclamation was read to a mass meeting by 'Commissar' Joseph Z. Kornfeder, Detroit, a former Commun...
Photograph

Mosinee Goes Communist for a Day: Propaganda Films

Date: 05 01 1950
Description: Caption reads: "Simulated Communist Control-The local movie theater is seized by Communist authorities and pictures confiscated with Communist dominated fi...
Photograph

Mosinee Goes Communist for a Day: Rationing

Date: 05 01 1950
Description: Caption on back reads: "All foodstuffs is confiscated by Red authorities and rationed to the citizens. Mrs. Delbert Bauer is shown as she gets her cup of P...
Photograph

Mosinee Goes Communist for a Day: Red Raid

Date: 05 01 1950
Description: Caption reads: "Simulated Communist seizure--Editor Francis Schweinler, (Left) of the local paper is seized by Communist Commisar[sic] Joseph Kornfeder as ...
Photograph

"I Led 3 Lives" Advertisement

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Description: Photograph of a newspaper or magazine advertisement for the Ziv-TV show "I Led 3 Lives" which was based on the career of FBI undercover agent Herbert Philb...
Book or Pamphlet

America's Shameful Trade with the Enemy!

Date: 1970
Description: Pamphlet distributed by Young Americans for Freedom criticizing trade with China. Text at bottom, along with the hammer and sickle symbol, reads: "'When th...

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