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Filter: Subject of social issues
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Card from Madison Dry League pledging support to those who seek to eliminate saloons in the city of Madison. The organization's slogan was, "A happy, sober... |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a smoke-out in James Madison Park. Features a drawing of in blue, green and yellow, with a caption reading: "Madison, Madison. May Day i... |
| Date: | 03 25 1965 |
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| Description: | John Lloyd Taylor, new Madison Art Center Director, smoking a pipe. |
| Date: | 11 24 1953 |
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| Description: | Spectators and members at the Madison City Council meeting on November 24,1953. A cigar-smoking man listens to the proceedings. |
| Date: | 01 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster alleging that six men, possibly University of Wisconsin-Madison students, are undercover narcotics agents. Poster was created by the defense league ... |
| Date: | 10 04 1924 |
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| Description: | Broadside advertising a meeting and picnic of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) at Miller's Park in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 09 02 1930 |
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| Description: | Dilapidated backyard at Milwaukee amd N. Bryan Street next to Madison Builders Supply. |
| Date: | 02 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster from 1972, voicing support for Karl Armstrong and his involvement in the Sterling Hall bombing on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus in 1970... |
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| Description: | Hand-drawn poster that was originally displayed outside of The Nitty Gritty in Madison, Wisconsin. Reads, "You Are Wanted in Here!". |
| Date: | 05 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster publicizing a rally and candlelight march around the University of Wisconsin-Madison Library Mall and Capitol Square in Madison, Wisconsin. Presiden... |
| Date: | 08 24 1971 |
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| Description: | A special issue of the Madison Kaleidoscope which features poetry and an article about the bombing of the Army Mathematics Research Center located i... |
| Date: | 09 17 1990 |
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| Description: | An article appearing in the New York Times about a series of anti-Semitic crimes in Madison. |
| Date: | 08 24 1934 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist. |
| Date: | 11 05 1947 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison Chemistry Department open house. Three men are looking at equipment on laboratory table. |
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| Description: | Gauer in Madison in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol after speaking with the Governor on CARE business. |
| Date: | 03 24 1954 |
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| Description: | Frank Gugel of Madison Ward 8 standing at his seat to speak as Ivor McBeath of Madison Ward 11 (hand on chin) and Orin McConnell from the Town of Pleasant ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Madison Bus Company employee Roger Drouin. He is posing in front of his Westmorland bus with his left foot resting on the bumper. |
| Date: | 09 21 1990 |
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| Description: | An article in the Cleveland Jewish News reporting numerous antisemitic incidents on the University of Wisconsin Campus in Madison. |
| 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 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster advocating the release of Karl Armstrong, who was incarcerated for his involvement in the 1970 Sterling Hall bombing on the University of Wisconsin-... |
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