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| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Independent presidential candidate Robert M. La Follette, Sr., standing behind a radio microphone delivering a Labor Day address. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Robert M. La Follette, Sr., striking an emphatic pose with his fist raised over his hand. This photograph was probably taken for publicity purposes during ... |
| Date: | 05 1929 |
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| Description: | International Harvester film and visual aids exhibit at the American Library Association meeting in Washington. The exhibit was prepared by International H... |
| Date: | 07 22 1946 |
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| Description: | Members of the American Pharmaceutical Association Council visit the old Apothecary Shop exhibit at the Smithsonian. |
| Date: | 05 07 1969 |
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| Description: | Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird of Wisconsin, speaking at a Savings Bond rally at the Pentagon. On the platform is actress Ann Margaret wearing a short ... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | James L. Farmer, Jr. of CORE, speaking at a national conference of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. James Leonard Farmer, Jr. was a civil rights... |
| Date: | 03 16 1968 |
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| Description: | Senator Robert F. Kennedy announcing his candidacy for the office of President of the United States. The announcement took place in the Caucus Room of the ... |
| Date: | 04 22 1975 |
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| Description: | Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton signing the documents that restored tribal status to the Menominee Indians. Watching the ceremony are Senator Gaylo... |
| Date: | 04 26 1950 |
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| Description: | William T. Evjue, editor and publisher of the Madison "Capital Times," who was well-known for his "crusades" such as his opposition to gambling, Senator Jo... |
| Date: | 04 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy writes in a note pad during the testimony of General Miles Reber, the first witness during the Army-McCarthy hearings, what the ... |
| Date: | 05 24 1954 |
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| Description: | During the Army-McCarthy Hearings, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy replies to a Presidential statement that the executive responsibility cannot be usurped by an... |
| Date: | 12 1954 |
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| Description: | The 1954 Christmas card of Jeanne and Joseph R. McCarthy, mailed at about the time he was censured by the Senate. Handwritten on the inside the card says,... |
| Date: | 11 08 1954 |
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| Description: | For a publicity photograph on the day the Senate censure proceedings began, Joseph R. McCarthy and Mrs. McCarthy posed for this photograph of him reading w... |
| Date: | 03 03 1954 |
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| Description: | During the first months of his administration, President Dwight Eisenhower handled Joseph R. McCarthy by publicly ignoring him. However, after the abuse t... |
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| Description: | Civil rights activist Anne Braden speaking to a rally that was called by the National Anti-Klan Network, an organization of which she was a founder. |
| Date: | 1995 |
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| Description: | President Bill Clinton shakes hands with Nelson during the award ceremony. Clinton added a message and his signature at the bottom of the photograph. |
| Date: | 04 1862 |
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| Description: | Stationery depicting the fortifications around Washington, D.C., during the second year of the Civil War: Arlington Heights, directly across the Potomac Ri... |
| Date: | 04 1862 |
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| Description: | Hand-tinted stationery showing the Capitol in Washington, D.C. in 1862. The blue tint on the dome may have been intended to represent the unfinished natur... |
| Date: | 08 1861 |
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| Description: | Large-format, illustrated stationery purchased by Rudolph Fine, a member of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry in August, 1861, showing the Capitol (in actuality, ... |
| Date: | 12 16 2004 |
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| Description: | Robert and Geraldine Novak with President and Mrs. George W. Bush at a holiday reception at the White House. |
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