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Smashing Illegal Slot Machines

Date: 1948
Description: John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigarette tax division, using a sledge hammer to smash illegal slot machines.
Painting

James Madison

Date: 
Description: Portrait engraving of James Madison from a painting by Gilbert Stuart.
Photograph

William F. Vilas

Date: 1900
Description: Studio portrait of William Freeman Vilas, attorney, Regent of the University of Wisconsin, member of the State Assembly of Wisconsin 1885, U.S. Senator fro...
Photograph

Alfred W. Bareis and Bruce Weatherly

Date: 12 28 1948
Description: City Clerk Alfred W. Bareis swears in police chief Bruce Weatherly. Alfred W. Bareis was mayor from 1955-1956.
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Mrs. Glenn M. Wise, Wisconsin Secretary of State

Date: 08 1955
Description: Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John Wise), Wisconsin's first woman Secretary of State, arranges a floral centerpiece on a table in front of a floral pattern of wallpa...
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Mrs. Glenn M. Wise, Wisconsin Secretary of State

Date: 08 1955
Description: Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John Wise), Wisconsin's first woman Secretary of State, posing in the kitchen cooking.
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Mrs. Glenn M. Wise, Wisconsin Secretary of State

Date: 08 1955
Description: Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John Wise), Wisconsin's first woman Secretary of State, at her desk in the Wisconsin State Capitol.
Photograph

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Wise, Sr.

Date: 01 08 1955
Description: Wisconsin's new Secretary of State, Glenn M. Wise, pours coffee for her husband, John E. Wise, Sr., who is an electrical engineer with the state Industrial...
Photograph

Public Service Commission Member Wildon F. Whitney

Date: 04 06 1947
Description: Wildon F. Whitney taking the oath of office as a member of Public Service Commission from Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman.
Photograph

State Republican Party Convention

Date: 06 21 1947
Description: Assembly Speaker, Donald McDowell, casting a straw vote for U.S. President. George Greene, editor of Waupun Leader News, supervising the vote.
Photograph

Wis. Supreme Court Official

Date: 12 27 1947
Description: Portrait of a young man assumed to be an employee of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, taken inside the Wisconsin state capitol building.
Photograph

Julius Kelly, County Treasurer

Date: 01 09 1948
Description: Portrait of Julius Kelly, newly elected County Treasurer by the Dane County Board.
Photograph

I. Milo Kittelson

Date: 02 04 1948
Description: Seated portrait of I. Milo Kittleson, former mayor of Madison, 1920-1926, and State Industrial Commission examiner, 1927-1948.
Photograph

How to Use Voting Machine

Date: 03 08 1948
Description: First Step: The voter (Mrs. Thelma Hauser) receives her first instructions from the election official (Arvid Johnson) on a small working model. She must o...
Photograph

Secretary of Interior Visit

Date: 05 28 1948
Description: Wisconsin's Chairman of the State Highway Commission, James R. Law (left), greeting Secretary of the Interior, Julius A. Krug and his wife and son. They ar...
Photograph

Clyde M. Johnson

Date: 10 02 1948
Description: Portrait of Clyde M. Johnson, Wisconsin State Treasurer.
Photograph

A.J. Taft, Maple Bluff Police Marshal

Date: 12 13 1948
Description: The street directory for Maple Bluff was delivered by Marshall A.J. Taft around the Christmas season. The contents of the directory reveal the growth of Ma...
Photograph

A.W. Bareis, George Forster and Bruce Weatherly

Date: 12 28 1948
Description: City Clerk Alfred W. Bareis swears in police chief Bruce Weatherly in front of WKOW and WIBA microphones. George Forster, city finance director and acting...
Photograph

Community Welfare Council Officers

Date: 12 16 1948
Description: Recently elected officers of the Community Welfare Council. Seated, left to right: Mrs. Thomas (Rosamond) Doran, 4117 Yuma Drive, representing the Catholic...
Photograph

Myrtle Hansen

Date: 01 27 1949
Description: Dane County Clerk of Circuit Court Myrtle Hansen in her office with some of the court orders from 1948 which permitted about 50 Madison residents to change...

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