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Kissing Babies

Date: 08 28 1962
Description: At Mitchell Airport, Senator Alexander Wiley greets the young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Underborg of Waukesha with a kiss. Mrs. Wiley, holding a bouquet of ...
Photograph

Harold E. Stassen President Campaign Tour

Date: 03 06 1948
Description: Harold E. Stassen (center), in Monroe, receiving a block of cheese from District Attorney Rudolph P. Regez.
Photograph

Earl Warren for Vice-President Campaign

Date: 10 07 1948
Description: California Governor Earl Warren and his family at a rally at the University of Wisconsin stock pavilion where Gov. Warren made a half-hour talk in his bid ...
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Mrs. Harry S. (Bess) Truman and Daughter Margaret Truman

Date: 10 15 1948
Description: Mrs. Harry S.(Bess) Truman, at left, and her daughter, Margaret Truman, at right, seated on the speaker's platform at the University of Wisconsin stock pav...
Drawing

Landon and Knox Sticker

Date: 1936
Description: Sticker for the Republican presidential and vice-presidential candidates: Alf Landon and Frank Knox. The sunflower, the Kansas state flower, is part of it...
Photograph

Campaign for Vice President

Date: 09 26 1980
Description: Former Wisconsin Governor Patrick J. Lucey, together with Mrs. Lucey, campaigning for vice president on John Anderson's National Unity ticket. They are bot...
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A Bouquet for Geraldine Ferraro

Date: 10 31 1984
Description: Geraldine Ferraro thanks a little boy and girl for giving her a bouquet of flowers after her speech.
Poster

America Is Hard To See

Date: 1970
Description: A poster for the film "America Is Hard To See, Eugene McCarthy for President-1968" by Emile de Antonio. Features an illustration of Eugene McCarthy gazing ...
Photograph

Jessie Harloff Honored for Work for Kenneth Luedtke

Date: 07 07 1964
Description: Jessie Harloff is presented with an orchid by Kenneth Luedtke, a GOP candidate for the State Senate from Madison. She circulated nomination papers for Lued...
Photograph

Paul Soglin Speaking While Holding Roses

Date: 04 03 1973
Description: Paul Soglin, 27 years old, speaking into microphones while holding three roses. He is wearing a corduroy jacket. The location may be the Labor Temple on th...
Historical Object

Presidential Political Campaign Buttons 1928 and 1936

Date: 
Description: Framed assortment of buttons, pins, and other political ephemera of the presidential elections between Herbert Hoover and Al Smith (1928), and Franklin D. ...
Photograph

Trump Protesters

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: Three young African American women posing outdoors with their handmade protest signs, each one wearing a white rose in their hair. The signs read, from lef...
Photograph

"Make America a Laughingstock" Poster

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: A person standing in a crowd of people protesting the rally is holding up a sign with an image of Donald Trump wearing a red cap reading: "Make America a L...
Photograph

"We Come in Peace" Political Poster

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: A man is holding his political poster in his left hand, which bears images of cartoon aliens and reads: "We Come in Peace." His right hand is steadying a b...
Photograph

"Make America Hate Again" Political Poster

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: A young woman is holding a sign which reads: "Make America Hate Again," along with the hashtag: "#DumpTrump." It includes an image of Donald Trump breathin...
Photograph

"Trump is Dump" Political Poster

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: A young African American woman is sitting on the grass and holding a pink sign which reads: "Trump is Dump!" She is wearing a white rose in her hair. Other...
Historical Object

Presidental Political Campaign Ephemera

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Description: Eight assorted presidential political campaign buttons. Seven of them are for Bob Dole, and one is for the 1996 San Diego Republican National Convention, w...

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