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| Date: | 11 08 1859 |
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| Description: | A campaign notice that corrects misinformation being circulated by the candidate's opponents. The text reads, "Notice!! To the Electors of the 8th Senatori... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | A french bumper sticker with John F. Kennedy's face inside a circle in the middle. On the left, white letters on a red background, "J'AIME" and on the righ... |
| Date: | 01 1969 |
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| Description: | A photo shoot for David R. Obey's first campaign for Congress picturing him as assistant majority leader with Majority Leader Bob Huber (partially obscured... |
| Date: | 1992 |
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| Description: | Bill Clinton (standing) and Al Gore (in the red shirt to Clinton's right) campaigning together in Wisconsin. Although the precise location is unidentified,... |
| Date: | 1983 |
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| Description: | Press conference called by Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (center) to introduce his bill to reform political campaign contributions by political actio... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A casual portrait of Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey taken during the mid-1970s. It must have been a favorite, for it appeared in his campaign literatu... |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey sits on stage with an unidentified guest speaker. There is a campaign banner behind them, and an audience is in the for... |
| Date: | 02 15 1960 |
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| Description: | Two Republican candidates for governor and their wives chat with Roger Radue, dinner chairman, before the annual Dane County GOP Lincoln Day fund-raising d... |
| Date: | 08 08 1960 |
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| Description: | Secretary of State Robert Zimmerman spoke at the brief program at the Little White Schoolhouse (also known as the Birthplace of the Republican Party) while... |
| Date: | 09 21 1960 |
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| Description: | Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., ex-United Nations Envoy and Republican Vice-Presidential nominee, spoke to nearly 300 people at the Madison Municipal Airport. |
| Date: | 08 05 1964 |
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| Description: | Page 4 of The Student Voice featuring the title "Shootings, Beatings, Bombings and Burnings," and a photograph of Fannie Lou Hamer. |
| Date: | 10 28 1964 |
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| Description: | Four small black-and-white portraits of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party candidates: Fannie Lou Hamer, Annie Devine, Aaron Henry, and Victoria Gray... |
| Date: | 12 14 1946 |
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| Description: | Menu, mounted on board, for a dinner of the Gridiron Club. Features a background menu image (by Clifford Berryman?) of a victorious elephant in boxing shor... |
| Date: | 12 13 1947 |
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| Description: | Menu from the winter dinner of the Gridiron Club, with a "Where Do We Go from Here?" cartoon by Clifford K. Berryman of President Truman as each rider on a... |
| Date: | 04 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Menu souvenir, mounted on board, of a "They Went Then Till They Came to the Delectable Mountains" cartoon by Clifford K. Berryman for the spring dinner of ... |
| Date: | 12 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Two cartoons (by Clifford K. Berryman?) for the winter dinner of the Gridiron Club, each entitled, "Gridiron Forecast 1948": one of Thomas Dewey holding a ... |
| Date: | 05 1947 |
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| Description: | Cartoon, mounted on board, by Clifford K. Berryman of candidates wearing spring dresses and hats or headbands, and dancing around a maypole, with the Washi... |
| Date: | 01 1969 |
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| Description: | David Obey and Bill Bablitch listen as Mrs. Helen N. Van Prooyen speaks. They are drinking cups of coffee or tea. In the background is a brick fireplace, s... |
| Date: | 10 12 2012 |
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| Description: | Vice President Joe Biden addresses the crowd at a 2012 Democratic Election rally held at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. He is standing at a podium ... |
| Date: | 10 30 2012 |
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| Description: | A girl wearing a coat with patches for Tommy Thompson for Senator and Feehan for State Senator stands holding a Mitt Romney book. Her sister stands behind ... |
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