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| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Dwight D. Eisenhower and his brothers on a fishing trip proudly exhibiting muskies and northern pike on a Wisconsin lake. From left are Dwight, Edgar, Milt... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Candid shot of Fred Coe, producer of "Playwrights '56," sitting at his production board. |
| Date: | 07 1952 |
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| Description: | The Democratic convention, with Harry S. Truman and Adlai Stevenson standing at a podium. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Richard M. Nixon and his family during the 1952 presidential election campaign when he was the running mate in Dwight D. Eisenhower's suc... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An early view of the Richard Ira Bong Memorial - a P-38, although not a plane that Bong himself flew. The plane was acquired from the Air Force by the loca... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Braley family house located at 422 North Henry Street in which Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote "Laugh And The World Laughs With You, Cry and You ... |
| Date: | 08 27 1957 |
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| Description: | William Proxmire, his wife, Ellen (to Proxmire's right), and his supporters celebrate his victory in the special election to fill the Senate seat vacated u... |
| Date: | 09 1950 |
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| Description: | Walter J. Kohler, Jr., campaigning during the 1950 Republican gubernatorial primary at the Sales Pavilion in Waukesha. Kohler is speaking into a microphon... |
| Date: | 10 08 1955 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Aline W. Hazard wearing earrings and a necklace. |
| Date: | 08 06 1957 |
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| Description: | John Scharnberg and Wisconsin Governor Vernon Thomson in the Governor's Office at the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 11 04 1958 |
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| Description: | Gaylord Nelson, the Democratic candidate for governor, emerging from the voting booth. |
| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Governor Gaylord Nelson signing the bill which created Menominee County as the state's 72nd county. The new county consisted of those portions of Shawano a... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Pencil sketch of Belle Boyd, a Confederate spy who is buried in Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | LeRoy Gore, the Sauk City journalist who organized the "Joe Must Go!" petition drive to recall Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. Gore had supported McCarthy in ... |
| Date: | 08 13 1952 |
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| Description: | Len Schmitt, former Progressive Party legislator from Merrill, led the Republican opposition to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's bid for re-election. Schmitt a... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Formal portrait Dwight D. Eisenhower at the time of his first Presidential campaign. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy was one of the most difficult issues Eisen... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Charles J. Kersten (1902-1972), a conservative Republican congressman from Wisconsin's 5th District. Kersten, a Milwaukee attorney, was elected to Congres... |
| Date: | 03 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Edward R. Murrow of CBS. On March 9, 1954, Murrow broadcast an episode of his "See It Now" series about Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and McCarthyism, and on ... |
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