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Postcard

Little Pink Ballot

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

MacArthur for President

Date: 1951
Description: Men and women work at the campaign headquarters for the Douglass MacArthur campaign for president.
Photograph

Get Out the Vote Telephone Drive

Date: 11 05 1958
Description: Women campaign workers call voters to support the Labor Political League and vote for candidates sympathetic to Labor issues.
Poster

1A In Our Draft

Date: 1944
Description: Poster promoting Franklin Delano Roosevelt's re-election. His face appears over a background of men, women and soldiers. At the top is the text "1A In Our ...
Property Record

475 CHARTER ST

Community: Madison
County: Dane
Historic Name: Physics-Political Economy Building; Sterling Hall
Reference Number: 139579
Photograph

Rachel Jastrow

Date: 1915
Description: Rachel S. Jastrow campaigning for women's suffrage from the back of an automobile with a banner reading "Votes for Women."
Photograph

Campaign Rally for Thomas Edmund Dewey

Date: 1948
Description: Group of people, many holding signs, at a presidential rally for Thomas Edmund Dewey.
Poster

Votes for Women Poster

Date: 1925
Description: Poster issued by the Milwaukee County League of Women Voters that graphically urges women to vote.
Photograph

Harold E. Stassen Presidential Campaign Workers

Date: 03 25 1944
Description: Four women campaign workers for Republican Presidential Candidate Harold E. Stassen sitting around a table.
Poster

Anti-Woman Suffrage Poster

Date: 1912
Description: Anti-woman suffrage poster that reads: "Danger! Women's Suffrage would double the irresponsible vote! It is a menace to the Home, Men's Employment and All ...
Photograph

Three Republican Women

Date: 10 05 1956
Description: Three Republican (?) women sit around a table while looking at files.
Historical Object

Presidental Political Campaign Ephemera

Date: 10 1992
Description: Cover of a presidential political campaign comic book. The writer is Larry Doyle, and the illustrator is Alan Kupperberg.
Photograph

Golf Game

Date: 04 26 1967
Description: Women golfers on the course.
Photograph

Senator Nelson and Constituents

Date: 1974
Description: Senator Gaylord Nelson chats with Wisconsin constituents at a political event.
Photograph

Democrats for Goldwater

Date: 10 28 1964
Description: Women representatives of Democrats for Goldwater from Central Wisconsin rally to support their candidate.
Photograph

Civil Rights Workers Talking to Woman

Date: 1965
Description: A woman and a man stand and talk to a seated woman. The standing woman is showing her papers. In the background, a man sits on a sofa talking to a child se...
Photograph

Campaign Cupcakes

Date: 10 10 1956
Description: A young woman and an elderly woman are smiling at each other over a tray filled with cupcakes decorated with "IKE in '56" campaign buttons and tiny America...
Photograph

Up the Wolf River for Votes for Women

Date: 1912
Description: Suffragists sitting aboard the Mary E. at dockside on the Wolf River. The boat sports a banner reading: "Votes for Women."
Newspaper Article/Clipping

G.O.P. women adopt schoolhouse emblem

Date: 1929-06-20
County: Fond Du Lac
City: Ripon
Photograph

School Desegregation Pickets

Date: 1964
Description: A woman and child carry CORE picket signs protesting school segregation.

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