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Get Out the Vote for William Proxmire

Date: 11 05 1956
Description: Telephone callers started a new phase of the "get out the vote" campaign Monday at Proxmire for Governor headquarters, 135 W. Wells Street. More than 40 te...
Print

Scenes and Incidents at the Republican National Convention

Date: 06 03 1884
Description: Illustrations=s of the Republican National Convention. The main drawing shows an outside view with the caption "Scene in front of the convention building d...
Poster

1A In Our Draft

Date: 1944
Description: Poster promoting Franklin Delano Roosevelt's re-election. His face appears over a background of men, women and soldiers. At the top is the text "1A In Our ...
Photograph

Frame 57: Posters of Hamer and Henry

Date: 1964
Description: Campaign posters for two Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) candidates, Aaron Henry and Fannie Lou Hamer.
Historical Essay

Ballot Box Representing Fight For Women's Suffrage

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object - Feature Story
Ballot Box used in Town of Weston, Clark County, Wisconsin, ca. 1915.
Photograph

Campaign Shoot

Date: 1994
Description: Filming a campaign spot for Congressman David R. Obey (left), probably in the Wausau Family Practice Center. Health care and its associated costs were an i...
Photograph

Dave and Mary Lou

Date: 1994
Description: Mary Lou Munts, a member of the Wisconsin Assembly, and Congressman David R. Obey at a fundraiser for Obey at the Madison Club.
Photograph

Obey at the Fair

Date: 1976
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey chats with a constituent manning the dairy bar as part of a campaign shoot.
Photograph

Democratic Barbecue Fundraiser

Date: 08 1990
Description: Democrats at a fundraising barbecue for Wisconsin State Senator Russ Decker weigh down the make-shift seating.
Photograph

Obey Fights for Us

Date: 
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...
Photograph

Madison League of Women Voters Convention

Date: 03 25 1959
Description: Diana Smith visits with Justice Harold Hallows, left, and Stewart G. Honeck. Smith and Honeck are candidates for the Wisconsin Supreme Court and were speci...
Photograph

Breakfast for Sen. John F. Kennedy

Date: 09 24 1959
Description: Sen. John Kennedy, a leading Democratic presidential hopeful, began an intensive three-day speaking tour in Wisconsin with a breakfast with politicians and...
Photograph

Two Republican Candiidates for Governor at Dane County Lincoln Day Dinner

Date: 02 15 1960
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...
Photograph

Mrs. Hubert Humphrey Visits Madison

Date: 03 28 1960
Description: Group portrait of Mrs. Hubert Humphrey at the Madison airport with her son Hubert, Jr. (left), Sam Rizzo, Jr., son of the Humphrey campaign chairman in Wis...
Photograph

Birthplace of the Republican Party

Date: 08 08 1960
Description: Republican candidates for state office started a week-long campaign at the Little White Schoolhouse in Ripon, the birthplace of the GOP in 1854. Standing o...
Photograph

Kuehn for Governor Campaign

Date: 08 08 1960
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...
Photograph

GOP and Democratic Workers

Date: 09 12 1960
Description: Marian Wilkie (right) makes out a receipt for a contribution to the Dane County Dollars for Democrats on the doorstep of 1930 Northwestern Avenue. Claire D...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Page From The Student Voice

Date: 08 05 1964
Description: Page 4 of The Student Voice featuring the title "Shootings, Beatings, Bombings and Burnings," and a photograph of Fannie Lou Hamer.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Freedom Vote Candidates

Date: 10 28 1964
Description: Four small black-and-white portraits of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party candidates: Fannie Lou Hamer, Annie Devine, Aaron Henry, and Victoria Gray...
Photograph

Nixon Film Preview

Date: 11 02 1960
Description: 40 Madison area women preview a film of Vice-President and GOP presidential candidate Richard Nixon. The film is to be shown on WISC-TV.

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