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The "Progressive Magazine" Cover Design

Date: 12 02 1962
Description: The cover design of the December issue of "The Progressive." It features a vivid yellow background, a black and white photographic collage, and the article...
Photograph

Submitting Petitions for the Progressive Party

Date: 06 18 1934
Description: Two men and a woman are turning in signature petitions to Secretary of State Theodore Damann to form the Progressive Party.
Photograph

Five Men Active in Progressive Movement

Date: 01 06 1931
Description: Five men who were active in the Progressive Movement are standing in front of the Capital Times building, 302 East Washington Avenue. L to R: Louis Davlin,...
Photograph

Two Progressives Carrying Torches

Date: 11 03 1934
Description: Otto Burmeister, Middleton, and E.J. Onstad, Madison, carrying kerosene torches which will be used in a Progressive party torchlight parade that evening.
Photograph

Progressive Republicans at the Park Hotel

Date: 10 09 1928
Description: Members of the Progressive Republican Alfred E. Smith For President Club, holding their hats while posing in front of the Park Hotel, 22 South Carroll Stre...
Photograph

Howard Morland and Erwin Knoll

Date: 09 14 1979
Description: Activist Howard Morland, and editor of "The Progressive" Erwin Knoll standing behind microphones and speaking to the media. Morland had published an articl...
Photograph

Milton S. Mayer

Date: 03 10 1954
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Milton S. Mayer (1908-1986), journalist with a column in the Progressive Magazine.
Photograph

Progressive Magazine Editor

Date: 03 25 1955
Description: Morris Rubin, editor of The Progressive, sitting at his desk decked with a glass ashtray with cigarette, matchbook, and papers. In 1940, Rubin (b.19...
Photograph

Randall School Classroom

Date: 10 29 1931
Description: Randall school first grade classroom with students sitting in a circle. The teacher is also sitting in the circle. Caption reads: "A progressive first grad...
Photograph

Solidarity Sing Along

Date: 04 03 2016
Description: A large screen in the Kohl Center at the Bernie Sanders rally is broadcasting the Solidarity Sing Along, a progressive and pro-labor group of people who si...
Photograph

Philip F. La Follette

Date: 04 28 1938
Description: Governor Philip F. La Follette of Wisconsin on the night when he delivered his "National Progressives of America" speech. Behind him is Morris Rubin, edito...
Photograph

Emerson School

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Description: A group of young students seated in their classroom holding books as the teacher stands at the back of the room. The title of the book is "The Progressive ...
Photograph

Sunset Hills Children's Circus

Date: 07 29 1961
Description: Marueen McGilligan performing a progressive dance at the Sunset Hills neighborhood children's circus, a fund-raiser for the American Nursing Research Found...
Photograph

Man Waving Cap

Date: 11 01 1928
Description: A man wearing overalls and a bow tie and carrying a lunchbox is waving his cap, as part of the "You know me Al" presidential campaign of Alfred E. Smith. T...
Photograph

Man Waving Cap

Date: 11 01 1928
Description: A man wearing overalls and a bow tie and carrying a lunchbox is waving his cap, as part of the "You know me Al" presidential campaign of Alfred E. Smith. T...
Photograph

Norman M . Ward

Date: 04 23 1948
Description: African-American man, Norman M., Ward (aka Paul Nokomis) 18-year-old Chicagoan who was sent to jail to await sentence when he pleaded guilty to larceny and...
Drawing

Progressive Party, Symbol

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Description: Symbol submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration by The National Progressives of America. Description is insignia says: "The represent...
Print

Theodore Dammann

Date: 1932
Description: Formal printed quarter-length portrait of Wisconsin Secretary of State Theodore Dammann.
Photograph

Phillip La Follette Addressing the Legislature

Date: 1931
Description: Elevated view of Governor Phillip La Follette addressing the Legislature.
Photograph

Governor La Follette Signing Bill

Date: 06 12 1931
Description: Governor La Follette signing old age pension bill.

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