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Vice President Richard Nixon Makes a Campaign Stop in Madison

Date: 11 07 1960
Description: Then-Vice President Nixon helps lift crutch-clutching Lynn Cooperman to the speaker's platform during a campaign stop at the Madison Municipal Airport. She...
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Vice President Nixon Makes a Campaign Stop in Madison

Date: 11 07 1960
Description: Then-Vice President Nixon on the speakers platform during a presidential campaign stop at the Madison Municipal airport. With him are his wife, Pat; injure...
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U.W. Young Republicans Picketing

Date: 10 28 1960
Description: University Republican students picketing the Kennedy-Nelson campaign headquarters at 610 University Avenue, carrying signs asking why the Democratic campai...
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Walt Kelly & Pogo on Book Tour

Date: 09 26 1952
Description: Walt Kelly posing with a Pogo impersonator (left), Jo Ingelfield (center), who was selected to be Pogo's first lady if he successfully won his campaign for...
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Madison Heart Fund Drive

Date: 01 24 1950
Description: Three members of the Madison Heart Fund campaign committee visit with two doctors at a University of Wisconsin medical school research laboratory. From lef...
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University of Wisconsin Prom Queen Contest

Date: 02 18 1952
Description: Seated at right is Phyllis Berg, a finalist in the University of Wisconsin Prom Queen Contest. As part of her campaign theme, "The King and I," four of he...
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United Givers Campaign

Date: 10 27 1959
Description: The theme "Every Call Counts" at the first United Givers report luncheon will be symbolized by the huge replica of a telephone. Shown with the phone are (l...
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University of Wisconsin Prom Queen Contest

Date: 02 18 1952
Description: University of Wisconsin Prom Queen contest finalist Nancy Smith is shown wearing a bathing suit, and transparent rain coat, and holding an umbrella to port...
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University of Wisconsin Prom Queen Contest

Date: 02 18 1952
Description: Nancy Wetzel, a finalist in the University of Wisconsin Prom Queen contest, is shown putting pretzels in the mail boxes at Elizabeth Waters Hall, as part o...
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University of Wisconsin Prom Queen Contest

Date: 02 18 1952
Description: Sally Riblett, a finalist in the University of Wisconsin Prom Queen contest, is shown in a beauty salon getting her hair sprayed blue as part of her "The G...
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Nancy McVee

Date: 12 22 1954
Description: Portrait of Nancy McVee, recently recovered from tuberculosis after being treated in a sanatorium for five years. During that time, she took correspondence...
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March of Dimes Campaign

Date: 12 31 1951
Description: Ann E. Boberschmidt, Edgewood College sophomore, is shown wearing a necklace and sweater. She was stricken with polio in November of 1945, paralysing her l...
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University of Wisconsin Prom Queen Contest

Date: 02 18 1952
Description: Shelia O'Neil (left), a finalist in the University of Wisconsin Prom Queen contest, holds up a fish (yellow perch) as part of her "Fishing for Votes" campa...
Historical Essay

Bascom Hill Pink Flamingo

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Pink flamingo from the flock that graced Bascom Hill on on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, 1979. (Museum object #1979.302A-C)

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