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Republican Ticket

Date: 1888
Description: Republican Party ticket distributed in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, in support of the candidacy of Benjamin Harrison and his running mate Levi P. Morton. ...
Manuscript

Petition to President Lincoln

Date: 1864
Description: Petition to President Abraham Lincoln for the establishment of soldiers homes and hospitals in Wisconsin. The petition is signed by 18 women.
Photograph

Franklin Roosevelt Visiting the Allis Chalmers Plant

Date: 09 19 1942
Description: Presidential Tour - Series IV. Official party views women at work in Allis Chalmers factory.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt is looking through rear wind...

Photograph

Vice President Nixon Makes a Campaign Stop in Madison

Date: 11 07 1960
Description: Then-Vice President Nixon leaving his airplane with his wife on a campaign stop in Madison.
Photograph

President Herbert Hoover Arriving in Madison by Train

Date: 11 05 1932
Description: President Herbert Hoover stands with his wife on the platform of their special train as they arrive in Madison. Hoover spoke at the University of Wisconsin...
Photograph

We Saw You . . . at PEO Sisterhood Tea

Date: 06 15 1957
Description: Members of the PEO (Philanthropic Educational Organization) Sisterhood Reciprocity Board hold a tea in honor of First Lady Helen (Davis) Thomson, wife of W...
Photograph

Richard Nixon and the Honey Queen

Date: 1958
Description: Richard M. Nixon welcomed by Barbara Bird, Honey Queen, and Wisconsin Governor Vernon W. Thomson with cheese package at the Oshkosh Airport.
Photograph

Village President

Date: 11 1995
Description: "Theresa's first female Village President is 44-year-old Chris Giese. Chris works in the Intensive Care Unit at St. Agnes Hospital and she and her husband...
Photograph

President Barack Obama Giving a Speech

Date: 07 02 2015
Description: President Barack Obama is standing at a podium delivering a speech at UW-LaCrosse. The crowd is filled with mostly young men and women, many of whom are ho...
Photograph

Vice President Richard Nixon Makes a Campaign Stop in Madison

Date: 11 07 1960
Description: Then-Vice President Nixon helps lift crutch-clutching Lynn Cooperman to the speaker's platform during a campaign stop at the Madison Municipal Airport. She...
Photograph

Presidential Candidate Richard M. Nixon

Date: 1960
Description: Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon speaks at an outdoor event. There is an airplane in the background. Patricia Nixon is shown seated behin...
Photograph

Presidential Debate

Date: 10 19 1992
Description: "Bill Clinton, with wife Hillary, and daughter, Chelsea, relax at the conclusion of the debates."
Photograph

Students and Teacher Displaying Portrait of President

Date: 1924
Description: A civics class and teacher are displaying a portrait of President Woodrow Wilson. They are possibly gathered in the schoolyard.
Photograph

President Herbert Hoover Speaking at the University of Wisconsin Fieldhouse

Date: 11 05 1932
Description: President Herbert Hoover addressing a crowd of 12,000 at the University of Wisconsin fieldhouse. On the platform behind the president are, left to right: J...
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Vice President Nixon Makes a Campaign Stop in Madison

Date: 11 07 1960
Description: Then-Vice President Nixon on the speakers platform during a presidential campaign stop at the Madison Municipal airport. With him are his wife, Pat; injure...
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Breakfast for Sen. John F. Kennedy

Date: 09 24 1959
Description: Sen. John Kennedy, a leading Democratic presidential hopeful, began an intensive three-day speaking tour in Wisconsin with a breakfast with politicians and...
Photograph

Honorary Degree Recipients, Wisconsin Alumni Association Banquet

Date: 06 03 1961
Description: Seated are, Mrs. Mary Ingraham Bunting, president of Radcliffe College, and Louis P. Lochner, Fair Haven, New Jersey, Pulitzer prize winning foreign corres...
Photograph

We Saw You . . . at YWCA Tea

Date: 05 21 1954
Description: New officers of the University of Wisconsin YWCA gather at the group's tea. Shown seated (left to right) are Mrs. John Mayor, treasurer, and Mrs. John Kein...
Photograph

President Barack Obama Speaking at UW-LaCrosse

Date: 07 02 2015
Description: President Barack Obama is standing at a podium and addressing a crowd of people at UW-LaCrosse. Three secret service men are standing around him. Both the ...
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President McKinley at West Superior

Date: 1899
Description: Stereograph of President McKinley speaking to a large crowd from a stage decorated with bunting. In the background are buildings and train cars. Caption re...

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