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Kohler Signing GI Housing Loan Bill

Date: 03 01 1951
Description: Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr. signs a bill that would liberalize state housing loans to veterans. The legislators grouped around him in the Governor's off...
Photograph

Man Holding Monkey in Wisconsin State Capitol Building

Date: 04 17 1947
Description: David Mackin, Milwaukee World War II veteran, is shown with his monkey, Joe, in a state capitol hearing room. The bill under discussion would allow anyone ...
Photograph

Lyall T. Beggs

Date: 03 02 1949
Description: Lyall T. Beggs, former legislator from Madison and presently national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, being escorted to the speaker's rostrum in...
Poster

Anti-Slavery Constitutional Amendment Picture

Date: 1865
Description: Key to a composite portrait of the members of Congress who voted for to pass the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which the caption misidenti...
Photograph

First Veterans Day Proclamation in Wisconsin

Date: 10 29 1954
Description: Governor Walter Kohler signs a proclamation making November 11, 1954 the first Veterans Day in Wisconsin. Looking on, left to right, are: Francis Lorbecki ...
Photograph

Wisconsin Assembly Bill for National Guard Rights

Date: 10 30 1961
Description: Assemblyman Kyle Kenyon (R-Tomah) introduces a bill to guarantee rights to Wisconsin residents called up in the 32nd Division.
Poster

62,000 Laws

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with two cartoons under the headline. The cartoon on the left is titled: "Snowed Under," and displays a truck labeled American Indu$trie$ stalled in...
Poster

Mr. Consumer

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with two cartoon panels. In the panel on the left, a man in a military uniform, labeled "General Business," is forced to dance by a hand firing a gu...

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