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"Joe Must Go" Petition Signing

Date: 1954
Description: Members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 40 signing a "Joe Must Go" petition to recall Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy.
Poster

Reuss Campaign Ad

Date: 11 1951
Description: Poster issued by Democrat Henry S. Reuss as part of his campaign for the U.S. Senate seat held by Joseph R. McCarthy. Reuss declared his candidacy on Nove...
Photograph

Joseph McCarthy's High School Record

Date: 1930
Description: Joe McCarthy's Marquette University first semester report card. As indicated, he attended Little Wolf High School.
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Drew Pearson on Vacation

Date: 1950
Description: Columnist Drew Pearson, who with Robert S. Anderson and later with Jack Anderson, pioneered modern political investigative reporting. Pearson was one of t...
Photograph

GOP Flying Badgers

Date: 08 1946
Description: Distribution of campaign literature for Joseph R. McCarthy's primary campaign by the Young Republican's Flying Badger Squadron. The two pilots photographed...
Photograph

Press Interview with Senator Joseph McCarthy

Date: 12 09 1951
Description: Press interview at the Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Identified (left to right) are the United States Senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McC...
Print

Fight CommUNism Stamp

Date: 1954
Description: Brochure advertising anti-Communism stamps created and distributed by McAllen, Texas. The handwritten date on the brochure places its publication at the p...
Book or Pamphlet

Anti-Communist Literature

Date: 1953
Description: "It Can Happen Here," a pamphlet distributed by the Christian Anti-Communism Crusade. The CACC was founded by Fred C. Schwartz in 1953, the peak of the ant...
Photograph

Morris H. Rubin

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Description: Portrait of Morris H. Rubin, editor of the Progressive Magazine. This photograph is thought to have been taken during the 1950s when Rubin was one o...
Photograph

Philleo Nash

Date: 1951
Description: Philleo Nash, Wisconsin Rapids cranberry grower, Democratic Party leader, and lieutenant governor, 1959-1961. From 1946 to 1952 he was a special assistant ...
Photograph

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

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Description: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in custody. The Rosenbergs were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union on March 29, 1951, and sentenced to death. The climate ...
Photograph

Congressman O'Konski

Date: 1943
Description: Official portrait of Republican Congressman Alvin O'Konski, probably dating from the 83rd Congress. O'Konski represented Wisconsin's 10th Congressional d...
Print

"End Witch Hunts" Cover

Date: 1960
Description: Cover of flyer found in the papers of the National Committee to Abolish the Un-American Activities Committee. Founded in 1960, the committee later became ...
Photograph

Charles J. Kersten

Date: 1950
Description: Charles J. Kersten (1902-1972), a conservative Republican congressman from Wisconsin's 5th District. Kersten, a Milwaukee attorney, was elected to Congres...
Print

"The Red Package" Cover

Date: 1947
Description: Anti-communist brochure, copyright by Harry T. Everingham, Chicago, Illinois, in 1947. The text asks "Why not try Communism?" and replies "The answer is y...
Drawing

Anti-Communist Envelope

Date: 1962
Description: Envelope of a letter addressed to Senator William Proxmire from a constituent in Kansasville, Wisconsin, which graphically illustrates a perceived connecti...
Print

Bob La Follette Jr. Brochure

Date: 08 1946
Description: Campaign brochure issued by Robert M. La Follette, Jr., after his decision to return the Wisconsin Progressive Party to the Republican Party. The brochure...
Photograph

Robert M. La Follette, Jr.

Date: 03 1946
Description: Informal portrait of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr., perhaps taken in the library at Maple Bluff Farm. Following his father's death in 1925 Bob Jr. was...
Photograph

Anti-Rosenberg Demonstrators

Date: 1951
Description: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of spying for the Soviet Union on March 29, 1951, and sentenced to death. The climate surrounding their trial wa...
Photograph

Eisenhower Press Conference

Date: 06 05 1952
Description: At his first press conference as an announced candidate for the Presidency, Dwight D. Eisenhower meets the press in a theatre. He took questions from over...

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