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Robert M. La Follette, Sr., Votes

Date: 1924
Description: View of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., at the voting booth in Maple Bluff, Wisconsin at the conclusion of his independent, third-party Presidential campaign.
Photograph

Stan Lesar

Date: 02 27 1956
Description: Stan Lesar, laboratory manager at the American Scientific Laboratories and an immigrant from Yugoslavia, looks forward to voting for the first time in the ...
Poster

Crusade for Citizenship Flyer

Date: 1958
Description: A flyer advertising the Crusade for Citizenship on February 12, 1958. An illustration shows men and women voting. Text reads, in part: "20 cities will hold...
Map or Atlas

Map of Janesville, Wis. Showing Numbering System & Wards

Date: 1900
Description: This map is indexed and shows numbering system, public buildings and parks, wards, and voting booths.
Poster

Votes for Women Poster

Date: 1925
Description: Poster issued by the Milwaukee County League of Women Voters that graphically urges women to vote.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Private homes designated voting places in Milwaukee back in 1867; coucil stirred by sunday dancing

Date: 1923-12-29
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Photograph

Frame 71: Outdoor Demonstration

Date: 1964
Description: A long line of protesters standing on a sidewalk hold signs calling for voting rights and civil rights. One sign reads, "We Are Not Allowed to Vote".
Photograph

Voting Rights Protesters

Date: 1964
Description: View down sidewalk of two male protestors wearing signs around their necks walking down a sidewalk in a Freedom Summer civil rights demonstration. The sign...
Photograph

Voting at Theresa Town Hall

Date: 04 1994
Description: Hedy Dobbe and her father, Hans Rahjes, prepare to vote at the Theresa Town Hall.
Photograph

League of Women Voters

Date: 02 20 1950
Description: Mrs. Robert J. (Joan) Francis of 833 Miami Pass, member of League of Women Voters, listens to City Clerk A.W. Bareis as he explains how to use a voting mac...
Manuscript

Racine Branch NAACP Letter

Date: 1957
Description: Draft of a letter from the Racine Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People regarding voter registration and organized votin...
Photograph

Spring Election 1961

Date: 04 04 1961
Description: "We Saw You Performing Civic Duty" at the Fire Station. A voter is checking in before voting at the 19th Ward poll. He is at the head of a long line of vot...
Photograph

Edward Evenson Plays Chess

Date: 11 09 1960
Description: A uniformed police officer is sitting in a folding chair and moving pieces on a chessboard. Caption reads: "On duty Tuesday at the voting place in t...
Photograph

League of Women Voters

Date: 02 20 1950
Description: As part of a League of a Women Voters house to house canvas to encourage voting, Mrs. Horace (Marion) Wilkie (left), chair of the Westmorland Unit, is show...
Photograph

How to use Voting Machine

Date: 03 08 1948
Description: Step 5: The voter must leave the pointers down when she completes her choice, or her vote will not be recorded.
Map or Atlas

Walworth County, Wisconsin

Date: 01 01 1935
Description: This 1935 map of Walworth County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, highways and roads, railroads, school...
Document

Vel Phillips Voter Card

Date: 05 27 1959
Description: Vel Phillip's Voters' Registration Certificate.
Photograph

University of Wisconsin-Madison Peace Strikers

Date: 04 12 1935
Description: Group portrait of "one thousand" University of Wisconsin-Madison students, enlisted in the war against war at a peace mass meeting and anti-war strike, vot...
Print

Official Primary Ballot for the Republican Party

Date: 1912
Description: Official Primary Ballot for the Republican Party on Tuesday September 3, 1912.
Postcard

Little Pink Ballot

Date: 1911
Description: Political postcard in support of a 1911 women's suffrage bill in Wisconsin.

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