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Senator Kennedy Campaigning

Date: 1960
Description: Senator John F. Kennedy, Democratic presidential candidate, campaigning in Gays Mills during Wisconsin's primary.
Photograph

Senator Proxmire and Constituents

Date: 07 1969
Description: Senator William Proxmire hands his cards to constituents outside a Milwaukee grocery store.
Print

McCarthy for President Bumper Sticker

Date: 1968
Description: Bumper sticker from the 1968 Presidential campaign of Eugene McCarthy.
Book or Pamphlet

McCarthy for President Pamphlet

Date: 1968
Description: Front cover of a campaign literature pamphlet for Eugene McCarthy's 1968 Presidential run. Beneath the portrait of McCarthy is a quotation from an editoria...
Photograph

Carl Zeidler and Cab Driver

Date: 
Description: Carl Zeidler speaking with cab driver (i.e. the working man) for a campaign brochure. Three other men are standing with them on the curb.
Photograph

Tom Amlie Staff and Supporters

Date: 
Description: Tom Amlie with supporters and staff taken outside of headquarters. Ed Brown was a "fixer" sent by the party heads in Washington, D.C. Some of the unknown p...
Photograph

Henry Reuss Behind Grocery Register

Date: 1952
Description: A campaign picture of Democrat Henry Reuss wearing a suit, addressing constituents working at a grocery store. This was likely taken in 1952 while Reuss wa...
Photograph

Harold Gauer with Cigarette

Date: 
Description: Gauer "promo" photograph taken with a stack of his just published book: "How to Win in Politics," outlining Robert Bloch and Harold Gauer's modern campaign...
Photograph

Henry Reuss Campaign Photograph

Date: 
Description: Campaign photograph of Reuss talking with the "common working man."
Print

MacArthur for President Card

Date: 1944
Description: Small window card featuring a drawing of General Douglas MacArthur and the phrase, "Republicans draft General MacArthur for President."
Photograph

Button Seller

Date: 08 2000
Description: A man sells Gore-Lieberman buttons at Riverside Park.
Photograph

Obama Crowd

Date: 10 01 2008
Description: President Barack Obama greeting supporters at rally.
Photograph

Barack Obama Greeting Supporters

Date: 10 01 2008
Description: President Barack Obama greeting supporters at rally.
Photograph

In La Follette's Shadow

Date: 07 1972
Description: Congressman David R. Obey and Senator Gaylord Nelson posed talking in front of the statue of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. in the National Statuary Hall in th...
Photograph

First Campaign

Date: 1962
Description: Running for his first term in the Wisconsin Assembly, Wausau Democrat Obey met with Governor Gaylord Nelson to take a publicity photograph.
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

William Steiger Campaigning

Date: 
Description: Bill Steiger (right) speaks to several men as he campaigns for congress. Dick Cheney is visible on the far left.
Photograph

Assembly Committee Meeting

Date: 1966
Description: David R. Obey (left), then an Assemblyman, with Assemblyman George Molinaro and State Senator Walter Hollander photographed for a campaign brochure.
Photograph

Obey and Farmers

Date: 01 1969
Description: David R. Obey posed with dairy farmers as part of a photo shoot for his first campaign for Congress. The farmer in the center is Laurence Day, a farmer-Sta...
Photograph

Obey and Day on the Farm

Date: 01 1969
Description: As part of a campaign photo shoot, Laurence Day gives candidate David R. Obey a tour of his dairying operation in Marathon County. Day was both a dairy far...

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