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Photograph

Tallying Ballots

Date: 04 1992
Description: John Bodden, Evageline Koll, and Ralph Ruecker help tally ballots.
Photograph

Spring Election in Madison

Date: 04 02 1962
Description: Madison residents turn out to vote during the 1962 spring elections.
Historical Essay

Punch Card Voting Device

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Votomatic punch card voting device used in Walworth County, Wisconsin, until 2000. (Museum object #2006.24.1)
Historical Essay

Meeme Poll House

Document

Freedom Summer Memo

Date: 1964
Description: A memo to the accepted Mississippi Summer Project workers from the Mississippi Summer Project Committee.
Historical Object

Jane Addams

Date: 
Description: Album page that includes newspaper clippings of articles, and a portrait of Miss Addams.
Poster

Register to Vote Poster, Female

Date: 10 1972
Description: Poster encouraging young people to vote in the 1972 presidential election. Text reads, "Maybe they gave you the right to vote because they thought you'd ne...
Poster

Register to Vote Poster, Male

Date: 1972
Description: Poster encouraging young people to vote in the 1972 presidential election. Text reads, "Maybe they gave you the right to vote because they thought you'd ne...
Print

Communists View MacArthur

Date: 1950
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...
Photograph

Ballot Box at the City-County Building

Date: 1978
Description: Ballot box collects the vote by absentee ballot in the City County building.
Photograph

McCarthy Votes

Date: 08 13 1952
Description: For the camera, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy shows how he voted in the 1952 Republican Primary. McCarthy handily defeated his opponent Len Schmitt.
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Congressional Districts

Date: 1922
Description: A map of Wisconsin showing the state’s congressional districts, it also provides the population total for the state, each district and each county.
Photograph

Ballot Machine

Date: 1956
Description: Close-up view of a women's hand touching a ballot machine with names of candidates from the 1956 Wisconsin election.
Photograph

SCHW Delegates Vote

Date: 11 1946
Description: Delegates to the annual convention of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare (SCHW) vote on a resolution.
Poster

John F. Kennedy Campaign Poster

Date: 1960
Description: Red, white, and blue campaign poster with black and white head shot of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, that reads, "Kennedy For President Leadership For The 60's"...
Photograph

Waiting in Line to Vote

Date: 02 21 1989
Description: Seven men wait for the polls to open Tuesday morning at the New Berlin Administration Building.
Photograph

Frame 76: Woman Holding Papers

Date: 1964
Description: A seated woman holds civil rights literature.
Map or Atlas

Ward Map, Kenosha, Wisconsin

Date: 1955
Description: This map shows wards and precincts and includes list of polling places by ward and precinct, and list of State Assembly districts.
Poster

"Vote Homesteaders Out — Out of Congress."

Date: 
Description: Long narrow poster for term limits with red letters on white which reads: "Vote Homesteaders Out — Out of Congress."
Photograph

Vote Recording Machine

Date: 1919
Description: Inventor, B.L. Boboroff, displays his vote recording device to members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

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