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| Date: | 04 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Madison mayor Ivan Nestingen signing a proclamation designating April 26 through May 4 as Beautiful Madison Week, when residents are urged to spruce up the... |
| Date: | 10 13 1949 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the twenty three members of the Governor's Commission on Human Rights standing on the steps of the Capitol Building. First row, left to ... |
| Date: | 04 19 1949 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the members of the new Madison City Council. Front row, left to right: Ray Fessenden, John E. Coyne, and Frank Haas. Back row: Willilam C... |
| Date: | 06 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the eleven Madison boys being sent to Badger Boys' State at Ripon College by American Legion Post 57. The boys are flanked by Floyd Davidson, B... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Thomas E. Coleman sitting at a desk. He was the "boss" of the Republican Party in Wisconsin in the 1950s and President of Madison-Kipp Corporat... |
| Date: | 11 24 1948 |
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| Description: | Dane County Board Chairman Paul A. Robinson, left, and Madison City Manager Leonard G. Howell, right, signing contracts which officially join Madison and D... |
| Date: | 01 20 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Features a cartooned Laird cornered in a boxing ring with... |
| Date: | 11 01 1945 |
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| Description: | Members of the Madison City Plan Commission examining a proposed new zoning ordinance. Standing, from left, are J.M. Albers of the state planning board, an... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Official Primary ballot Tuesday September, 1912. City of Madison-Tenth Ward for the Democratic Party. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of R.L. Joiner, from a composite of images of the Wisconsin Senate. |
| Date: | 08 03 1959 |
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| Description: | Senator Hubert Humphrey appears at a press conference at the Hotel Loraine. Shown (L-R) are Senator Humphrey, (standing) Assemblyman Fred Risser (D-Madison... |
| Date: | 10 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Members of the Democratic State Convention Resolution Committee meet at the Madison YMCA to prepare a report to place before the convention delegates meeti... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Newly-elected members of the Wisconsin Assembly signing in. Facing the camera left to right are: E. William Proxmire (D-Madison), Hermann Eisner (D-Cross P... |
| Date: | 01 10 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the visit of Defense Secretary Melvin Laird to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Features a caricatured Laird sitting in an airplane ... |
| Date: | 02 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Dignitaries gathered for the start of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Invitational Bonspiel at the Madison Curling Club. Standing, left ... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders portrait of R.L. Joiner, a member of the Wisconsin Senate. From a composite of portraits. |
| Date: | 01 10 1955 |
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| Description: | Assemblyman Carroll Metzner (R-West Madison) is listening to a presenter at a pre-session lawmaker's school for the freshman members of the 1955 Wisconsin ... |
| Date: | 12 01 1944 |
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| Description: | Ambassador Lord Halifax, British ambassador to the United States, meeting with Madison and Wisconsin labor leaders. Lord Halifax is in the center, and to t... |
| Date: | 09 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Senator Karl Mundt, (S.D., Rep.) who is wearing a suit and hat, and putting a cigar up to his mouth. Mundt came to Madison to address a session of the Univ... |
| Date: | 08 11 1961 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips wearing a striped dress and a tag that reads "We're here for Wisconsin Human Rights Legislation." Phillips was taking part in a sit-in in supp... |
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