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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Portrait (Front) of Kikapo man, Mah-me-qua-che or Little Big Tree. Part of Algonquian and Kikapo Tribes. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Profile studio portrait of Candi Tanka or Big Tabbaco, with headdress, and holding possibly a pipe. Part of Siouan (Sioux) and Yankton Tribes |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., on the right, in discussion with his son, Robert M. La Follette, Jr. This photograph was taken during the same yea... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Canmonpatoankantuya, also known as James High Pipe, holding a bag. Part of the Siouan (Sioux) and Brule Tribes. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Nugkutizuwais, meaning Yellow Bear, a sub-Chief belonging to the Algonquian and S. Cheyenne Tribes. |
| 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: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Publicity portrait of journalists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak taken outside the White House. Their long-running newspaper column was entitled Inside ... |
| Date: | 02 12 1958 |
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| Description: | Senator Alexander Wiley presenting Vice President Richard M. Nixon with a heart-shaped box. |
| Date: | 02 04 1954 |
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| Description: | Senator Alexander Wiley and President Eisenhower. |
| Date: | 01 25 1961 |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of President John F. Kennedy standing at a podium at his first press conference. |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Joan Obey, wife of Congressman David R. Obey, and their youngest son Douglas. This photograph was taken to illustrate an interview with her about the life ... |
| Date: | 1996 |
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| Description: | Scott Lilly, a senior staff member of the House Appropriations Committee, executive director of the House Democratic Study Group, and chief of staff to Wis... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | A simple campaign poster for Hubert Humphrey. The top has "Humphrey" in white on a blue field. The center is a black and white photograph of Humphrey. The ... |
| Date: | 11 1969 |
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| Description: | The front page of The Gaylord Nelson Newsletter published in November of 1969. The featured story is "Environmental Teach-In Planned." |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Robert R. Nathan, an American economist. In the 1950s, Nathan was briefly chair of the Americans for Democratic Action. |
| Date: | 04 1987 |
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| Description: | Singer Harry Bellafonte, then the ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) testified on behalf of the fund before the House Appropriation... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Francis Johnson, teacher at the Mayo School, District No. 1, standing beside a screened porch. The porch has a rustic log railing and stone foundation. The... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Joe Mietus, 16, poses at the Mayo School, District No. 1. On the reverse of the photograph is written, "Has invented several home made farm tools. Also has... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Gene Mayo, 14, poses in front of double doors holding his cap. He is a student at the Mayo School, District No. 1. On the reverse of the photograph is writ... |
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