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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A head and shoulders portrait of Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd President of the United States, 1889-1893. Harrison was born on August 20, 1833, on a farm ne... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Robert M. La Follette political poster asking voters to consider La Follette's views and the opposition's views. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Organizational poster for a young men's Republican Club in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, to support the 1896 Presidential campaign of William McKinley. The Presiden... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man wearing a sandwich board supporting Bronson La Follette for Governor and Gaylord Nelson for United States Senator is seated on a donkey... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin campaign pin for Franklin Delano Roosevelt and John Nance Garner's 1936 run. It reads "Roosevelt Garner Club, Wisconsin." |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Campaign button for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, with Roosevelt's image at the center and the phrase "Carry on with Roosevelt" around the outer edge. |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Campaign banner in support of Franklin Delano Roosevelt for President. The banner bears Roosevelt's image and the phrases "God Bless America" and "our next... |
| Date: | 09 05 1954 |
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| Description: | State Senator Warren Knowles, (R-New Richmond), Republican-endorsed candidate for lieutenant governor (right), crouches to greet Tom and Bill Jasper, two y... |
| Date: | 09 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Senator Karl Mundt, (S.D., Rep.) who is wearing a suit and hat, and putting a cigar up to his mouth. Mundt came to Madison to address a session of the Univ... |
| Date: | 08 1990 |
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| Description: | Grilling burgers and corn on the cob, all washed down with beer... a typical menu for a Wisconsin political fundraiser. This event was for State Senator Ru... |
| Date: | 10 06 1956 |
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| Description: | Atty. Gen. Vernon W. Thomson, GOP gubernatorial candidate, posing with his long-time friend, movie and television actor Dennis Morgan. Morgan was one of th... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Rosser Reeves and Dwight D. Eisenhower leaving the Transfilm Building after filming fifty political spots in one day. (Rosser Reeves wearing glasses.) Eise... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Two-sided, quarter-fold advertisement for a ten filmstrip program about the 1972 presidential election. The outside is the promotional information. The ins... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A poster promoting campaign supplies that could be ordered with a candidate's name printed on it. The items include: cloth signs, posters, window cards, kn... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Political poster urging citizens to "Demonstrate No Confidence" in neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. The poster has a cartoon of the Republican el... |
| Date: | 1994 |
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| Description: | Mary Lou Munts, a member of the Wisconsin Assembly, and Congressman David R. Obey at a fundraiser for Obey at the Madison Club. |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (left) and Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl at a fundraiser for Obey. Jim Chapman is the man between them. |
| Date: | 08 1990 |
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| Description: | Democrats at a fundraising barbecue for Wisconsin State Senator Russ Decker weigh down the make-shift seating. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | A door hanger encouraging voters to vote down the plan to discontinue plans for creation of the Monona Terrace. |
| Date: | 10 24 2012 |
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| Description: | La Crosse Loggers baseball team owner Dan Kapanke, at a Republican Election Rally at La Crosse County Republican Headquarters. He is a former Wisconsin Sta... |
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