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"The Revolution"

Date: 07 15 1869
Description: Page one of the "The Revolution."
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.
Book or Pamphlet

Page From Voting Pamphlet

Date: 
Description: An illustrated pamphlet page titled: "... now with your hand, pull the lever down." Along the bottom over raised hands breaking chains are the names: "Mich...
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...
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Official Primary Ballot for the Republican Party

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

Tally Sheet for the Assembly Vote (or) Vote Record of Suffrage Bill

Date: 
Description: Tally sheet for the Assembly vote on David James's suffrage referendum bill. Photograph of the voting record of the Wisconsin Assembly on the measure to...
Postcard

Little Pink Ballot

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

How to Use Voting Machine

Date: 03 08 1948
Description: First Step: The voter (Mrs. Thelma Hauser) receives her first instructions from the election official (Arvid Johnson) on a small working model. She must o...
Poster

Register Your Discontent. Vote.

Date: 01 1972
Description: Poster encouraging young people to register to vote. Includes a picture of a barefoot man with a guitar and blue jeans (a college student, hippie, musician...
Photograph

Town of Fitchburg Voters Get a Look at Old Ballot Box

Date: 09 08 1964
Description: Town of Fitchburg voters vote at the new $40,000 town hall, 2733 S. Fitch Hatchery Road, for the first time using voting machines. Voters also received a l...
Print

Official Primary Ballot for the Democratic Party

Date: 1912
Description: Official Primary ballot Tuesday September, 1912. City of Madison-Tenth Ward for the Democratic Party.
Manuscript

Louisiana Story 1963

Date: 1963
Description: Cover of pamphlet entitled "Louisiana Story 1963," by James Farmer. Produced by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).
Photograph

Voter Registration Activists from Charleston

Date: 
Description: Voter registration activists from Charleston, South Carolina. Charles Wilson seated on right.
Document

Freedom Vote Ballot

Date: 
Description: A ballot showing candidates from the Freedom Democratic Party, the Democratic Party, and the Republican Party.
Poster

Robert M. La Follette Political Poster

Date: 1905
Description: Robert M. La Follette political poster asking voters to consider La Follette's views and the opposition's views.
Photograph

Wisconsin State Legislature Session Begins

Date: 01 12 1955
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...
Photograph

Girl Scouts Distribute Election Literature

Date: 10 25 1958
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...

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