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| Date: | 11 04 1958 |
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| Description: | Gaylord Nelson, the Democratic candidate for governor, emerging from the voting booth. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Raising their right hands, an unidentified group of union members voting at the American Federation of Labor (AFL) convention. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Mother and small son in voting booth, with the child squatting on the floor and peeking out beneath the curtain. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | This maps shows voting precincts and polling places as well as wards. Streets and the Sheboygan River are labeled. The bottom right of the map features a l... |
| Date: | 02 27 1956 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 20 1950 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 20 1950 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 27 1959 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillip's Voters' Registration Certificate. |
| Date: | 01 12 1955 |
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| Description: | The newly elected Assembly speaker, Mark Catlin, Jr. (right), signing the official vote register as Robert H. Boyson (left), voting machine operator, is lo... |
| Date: | 10 25 1958 |
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| Description: | Four Girl Scouts hand out voting literature prepared by the League of Women Voters at the Red Owl store on University Avenue. Dorothy Kittleson takes a pam... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Political cartoon of General Douglas MacArthur and Trygve Lie entitled "Please, here's the towel" and captioned "The UN voting machine ratifying the Americ... |
| Date: | 08 13 1952 |
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| Description: | For the camera, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy shows how he voted in the 1952 Republican Primary. McCarthy handily defeated his opponent Len Schmitt. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of a women's hand touching a ballot machine with names of candidates from the 1956 Wisconsin election. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | This map shows wards and precincts and includes list of polling places by ward and precinct, and list of State Assembly districts. |
| Date: | 11 04 1952 |
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| Description: | Thomas Fairchild casts his vote in the 1952 general election. Fairchild lost his bid for the U.S. Senate seat held by Joseph R. McCarthy. With him are hi... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | For a 1950 election, the United Packinghouse Workers Union sponsored a free bus to transport people to the voter registration site. |
| Date: | 10 29 1959 |
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| Description: | Flyer for a rally "The Right To Vote" "The Fight To Vote" sponsored by the Federation of Negro Civil Service Organizations, Inc. Speakers include Jackie Ro... |
| Date: | 10 26 1958 |
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| Description: | Four men have a conversation in front of a banner that reads, "Vote Republican." The second man from the left is Warren P. Knowles, Lt. Governor. |
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