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George Bush Campaign

Date: 10 31 1992
Description: "George Bush Campaign Train visits Lomira."
Photograph

The New Capitol, Columbia, S.C.

Date: 1866
Description: Construction on the new capitol building. A church is behind the construction.
Plate 52
Poster

Campaign Supplies

Date: 1938
Description: A poster promoting campaign supplies that could be ordered with a candidate's name printed on it. The items include: cloth signs, posters, window cards, kn...
Book or Pamphlet

Mammoth Advertising Campaign

Date: 1921
Description: Pamphlet cover entitled: "A Mammoth Advertising Campaign" listing Allis-Chalmers' use of "double-page spreads and dominant full pages in 36 leading publica...
Photograph

United Givers Fund Support at Ray-O-Vac

Date: 10 04 1957
Description: Ray-O-Vac employees on the plant floor supporting the United Givers Fund on the opening day of the campaign. Left to right are: Helen Fitzgerald, Stoughton...
Photograph

Paper Mill Workers

Date: 01 1969
Description: David R. Obey speaks with factory workers at Wausau Paper Mill during his first campaign for Congress.
Photograph

Tom Amlie's Home

Date: 
Description: Robert Bloch, Harold Gauer, Tom Amilie, and two unknown men at Amlie's home. Taken to illustrate campaign brochure of Amlie talking to "farmer types."
Photograph

Obey with Factory Workers

Date: 01 1969
Description: David R. Obey posing with factory workers at Wausau Paper Mill in Brokaw, WI, during his first campaign for Congress.
Photograph

Henry Reuss in Factory

Date: 1952
Description: A campaign picture of Democrat Henry Reuss with his sleeves rolled up in a factory talking to a foreman while an African-American worker looks on. This was...
Photograph

War Chest Day's Pay Pledge

Date: 10 04 1945
Description: Group portrait of Madison Building and Construction Trades workers signing pledge cards to donate one day's pay (about $12) to Madison War Chest campaign.
Photograph

Miss Huddleston Posing with Dog

Date: 04 09 1917
Description: Miss Josephine Huddleston posing with dog. She had been driving the big IHC tractor at Harrison and Jefferson Streets for Chicago's City Garden Campaign.
Photograph

Madison IH Dealer Makes Scrap Drive Pledge

Date: 1942
Description: International Harvester dealer H.J. Nigles of Madison and Verona, Wisconsin, hands a signed pledge of cooperation in a scrap drive campaign to W.R. Ploetz ...
Photograph

Elevated View of Rally

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of a rally of employees for liberty loan campaign. The factory yard is crowded with people, and other people are sitting on the elevated rail...
Photograph

Farmers Unloading Metal for Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: Farmers unload scrap metal onto a large pile as part of a wartime scrap drive.
Poster

The 1926 Balloon Race is Over

Date: 1926
Description: Poster showing a graphic illustration of sales figures for Primrose cream separators by district and bearing the text: "Help Make 1927 Our Biggest Primrose...
Photograph

Wisconsin Papermill

Date: 1970
Description: An unidentified papermill in northern Wisconsin used as the backdrop for a publicity photo shoot during Congressman David R. Obey's first re-election campa...
Map or Atlas

Agricultural Extension Map

Date: 1917
Description: United States map showing co-operative field work of the Agricultural Extension Department of the International Harvester Company from January of 1913 to J...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: Tin Cans Clean-up

Date: 04 1935
Description: Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with a group of Boy Scouts and some of the 12,000 tin cans they collected in a neighborhood clean-up campaig...
Photograph

George Baldanzi

Date: 1952
Description: Portrait of George Baldanzi, founding executive vice president of the Textile Workers Union of America (TWUA). He was deputy director for Operation Dixie, ...
Print

Meatless Day Breakfast Menu

Date: 
Description: Meatless Day breakfast advertising menu, with a bowl of cereal and a spoon at the top and packages of Krumbles and Toasted Corn Flakes, Kellogg's pre-packa...

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