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Kohler Addresses the Legislature

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Description: Republican Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., addressing the Legislature and a broadcast audience in the Assembly Chamber. Warren P. Knowles, who would later ...
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Kohler Opens History Exhibit

Date: 10 08 1955
Description: Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., cuts a ribbon to open the "They Did It Themselves: 50 Years Ago" exhibit at the State Historical Society. Mrs. Vincent W. K...
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Rennebohm Voting

Date: 04 1948
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm outside a voting booth at the Maple Bluff village hall. At the time, the Governor's Residence was located at 130 E. Gilman Street...
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Seated Portrait of Rennebohm

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Description: Seated portrait of Governor Oscar Rennebohm.
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Oscar Rennebohm

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Description: Candid portrait of Oscar Rennebohm outdoors.
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Rennebohm at Desk

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Description: Portrait Governor Oscar Rennebohm seated at a desk in the Capitol doing paperwork.
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Young Fred Dennett

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Description: Studio portrait of young Fred Dennett with his chin resting on his hand, taken in the late 1860's.
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The Salomon Brothers

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Description: A series of four portraits of the Salomon brothers. From left to right are Brigadeer General Charles E. Salomon, Governor Edward Salomon, Major General Fre...
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Edward Salomon

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Description: Portrait of Edward Salomon, on the back of which is autographed, "To Dr. C.B. Chapman in kind remembrance. Edward Salomon".
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Rubin and Gompers in Atlantic City

Date: 06 1919
Description: William B. Rubin and Samuel Gompers pose together in Atlantic City. Text beneath the image reads, "Two Americans are thoroughgoing in their defense of huma...
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John F. Kennedy at West Palm Beach

Date: 04 1963
Description: John F. Kennedy and another man by a white car at West Palm Beach. The caption on the back of the photograph reads, "on Lake Worth while visiting Fred and ...
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President Herbert Hoover and Governor Kohler

Date: 11 05 1932
Description: Herbert Hoover stands with Governor Kohler on the back of a train during a campaign visit. The man in the hat holding the rail of the train car is U.S. Sec...
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President Wilson leaving the White House

Date: 03 12 1917
Description: President Wilson leaves the White House in a black car on his way to the Capitol to take oath.
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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."
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Asaph Whittlesey

Date: 1860
Description: Asaph Whittlesey dressed for his journey from Ashland to Madison, Wisconsin, to take up his seat in the state legislature. Whittlesey is attired for the lo...
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Studio portrait of Carrie Lane Chapman Catt

Date: 1896
Description: Waist-up portrait of Carrie Chapman Catt, one of the best known leaders of the women's suffrage movement who had strong ties to the North Country and who o...
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Jairus Fairchild

Date: 1862
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Jairus Cassius Fairchild (1801-1862), the first mayor of the city Madison (1856). Fairchild was also the father of Lu...
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Boss Elisha Keyes

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Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Elisha W. Keyes (1828-1910) a prominent Madison attorney who was appointed Madison postmaster by Abraham Lincoln in 1861. From ...
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George B. Smith

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Description: George B. Smith (1823-1879), Democratic politician, former mayor of Madison (elected 1858, 1859, 1860, and 1878), and a prominent attorney who specialized...
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Arthur McArthur

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Description: Judge Arthur McArthur (1815-1896). Grandfather of General Douglas MacArthur and Wisconsin's fourth governor.

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