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| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A head and shoulders portrait of William Dempster Hoard (1836-1918). |
| Date: | 01 11 1951 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., addresses a joint session of the Wisconsin State Legislature. |
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| Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt speaking at the Eleventh Congress of the United States Student Association at Ohio Wesleyan University. |
| Date: | 12 01 1944 |
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| Description: | Ambassador Lord (Edward Frederick Lindley Wood) and Lady Halifax, British ambassador to the United States, at the train station. Left to right: Lady Halifa... |
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| Description: | Congressman Frank Bateman Keefe gesturing at a podium. |
| Date: | 04 20 1971 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, who is credited with conceiving of Earth Day, listens while Wisconsin Governor Patrick J. Lucey addresses the Wisconsin L... |
| Date: | 03 04 1865 |
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| Description: | Large crowd gathered for Lincoln's second inauguration. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon speaks at an outdoor event. There is an airplane in the background. Patricia Nixon is shown seated behin... |
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| Description: | Side view of Gaylord Nelson speaking from a train caboose while on the campaign trail during a whistle stop tour. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Nikita Khruschev of the Soviet Union speaks to a crowd at the airport in Indonesia. President Sukarno stands at his side, while Indonesian troops stand at ... |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey standing at an outdoor podium at the Ice Age Trail Visitors Center. Trees fill the background. |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | During his remarks, Senator Gaylord Nelson, who is standing at the podium, cracks a joke, apparently at the President's expense. Wisconsin dignitaries to t... |
| Date: | 1986 |
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| Description: | At a press conference Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin announces the Save the Family Farm Act introduced with 27 other farm state legislators. Among ... |
| Date: | 06 1992 |
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| Description: | During the 1990s Congressman David R. Obey, a leading proponent of health care reform, held numerous forums on the subject in his northern Wisconsin distri... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | David R. Obey, then a Wisconsin assemblyman, testifying in the Capitol in behalf of the reorganization of state government proposed by the Kellett Commissi... |
| 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: | 03 28 1961 |
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| Description: | Former Vice-President Henry Wallace giving a speech at the the Wisconsin Center at the special Benjamin Hibbard Memorial Lecture. In it, he calls price-wag... |
| Date: | 07 08 1964 |
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| Description: | West German Consul in Chicago, Dr. Klaus Bloemer, spoke to about 30 people from the Wisconsin Summer Language Institute at the Wisconsin Center. He emphasi... |
| Date: | 01 22 1959 |
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| Description: | Photograph of Gov. Gaylord Nelson delivering a speech at a podium asking the state's lawmakers to help create a Wisconsin Economic Resources Commission to ... |
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