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| Date: | 08 11 1961 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips wearing a striped dress and a tag that reads "We're here for Wisconsin Human Rights Legislation." Phillips was taking part in a sit-in in supp... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | David R. Obey, then a Wisconsin assemblyman, testifying in the Capitol in behalf of the reorganization of state government proposed by the Kellett Commissi... |
| Date: | 10 02 1934 |
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| Description: | George A. Nelson, the Socialist candidate for governor of Wisconsin in the 1934 election, is seated with Anna Mae Davis, a Madison attorney and a local lea... |
| Date: | 01 18 1953 |
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| Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt interviewed by the press prior to her Sunday afternoon talk in the Memorial Union Theater. |
| Date: | 01 19 1953 |
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| Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt interviewed by the press prior to her Sunday afternoon talk in the Memorial Union Theater. |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite cartoon drawing of Jefferson Davis, being captured by Union troops while wearing a dress and escorted by other women. Titled "A So Called P... |
| Date: | 07 17 1944 |
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| Description: | National Democratic political convention in Chicago. Shown, left to right, are: George Schlotthauer, Democratic candidate for the Wisconsin State Senate fr... |
| Date: | 06 1992 |
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| Description: | During the 1990s Congressman David R. Obey, a leading proponent of health care reform, held numerous forums on the subject in his northern Wisconsin distri... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Newly-elected members of the Wisconsin Assembly signing in. Facing the camera left to right are: E. William Proxmire (D-Madison), Hermann Eisner (D-Cross P... |
| Date: | 06 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Helen Harkness Eby, vice-chairman Second Congressional District of the Republican Party of Wisconsin and treasurer of the women's section, posing outdoors. |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Congressman Morris Udall speaking to a Wisconsin audience during his campaign for the presidency. Udall finished a close second to Jimmy Carter in the Wisc... |
| Date: | 07 17 1944 |
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| Description: | National Democratic political convention in Chicago. Delegates William B. Rubin, Milwaukee, and Mrs. Cecilia Garvin, Elroy. |
| Date: | 08 22 1927 |
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| Description: | Charles Lindbergh meeting local dignitaries, with the crowd of admirers behind him seated in the stadium. Partly obscured to his right is Governor Schmedem... |
| Date: | 06 17 1944 |
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| Description: | National Democratic political convention in Chicago. State Democratic Chairman, Thomas R. King, and delegate, Cecilia Garvin from Elroy. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman Melvin R. Laird with four supporters of the re-election campaign of President Dwight Eisenhower and Dick Nixon, dressed in special ca... |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| This button was made for Tammy Baldwin’s first campaign for Wisconsin State Assembly in 1992. |
| Date: | 04 1985 |
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| Description: | Members of a special House Appropriations Committee mission to the Middle East at the airport in Jerusalem. The committee was headed by Congressman David R... |
| Date: | 08 15 1956 |
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| Description: | Helen and Vernon Thomson and two of their children, Tommy, age 9, and Susan, 14, posing in front of the steps of a passenger train car. They are traveling ... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Gertrude Lamb, newly appointed president of Dane County Women's Republican Club. |
| Date: | 04 04 1961 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Sally Bowles, of Washington, D.C., who was on campus to promote the recently formed Peace Corps as part of her job as "assistant to the associa... |
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