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MacArthur for President

Date: 1951
Description: Men and women work at the campaign headquarters for the Douglass MacArthur campaign for president.
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Proxmire Campaigns for Reelection

Date: 02 1958
Description: Elected to the Senate in a special election in September 1957, to fill the unexpired term of Senator Joe McCarthy, William Proxmire was forced to begin a c...
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Democratic Phone Bank

Date: 11 1960
Description: A volunteer phone bank of member of the United Packinghouse Workers locals 88 and 21: Ruby Espionga, Gayle Hill, Beatrice Holland, and Ann Wilson.
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Milwaukee Women's Suffrage Office

Date: 06 1912
Description: Two women seated at desks with typewriters in an office. A calendar on the wall indicates it is June 1912. Another poster advertises speakers in support of...
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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.
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Flying Desk

Date: 1964
Description: A woman working on a Goldwater campaign airplane. She is wearing a Goldwater hat, and a stuffed elephant is sitting on the desk with a Goldwater pin attach...
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Obey on the Phone

Date: 1976
Description: Congressman David R. Obey speaking on the phone in his office. Taken in 1976 this image was used in his 1980 campaign brochure with the caption: "trying to...
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John Blaine Campaigning

Date: 06 24 1922
Description: Slightly elevated view towards a crowd of men gathered in front of a dentist building. John J. Blaine, Wisconsin's 24th governor stands speaking near the e...

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