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Jessie Jack Hooper

Date: 1890
Description: Cabinet card of an informal full-length portrait. (Mrs. Ben) Jessie Jack Hooper relaxes in a chair. The portrait may have been taken at the Sawyer House in...
Book or Pamphlet

Political Parties, 1789-1880

Date: 1880
Description: Foldout chart illustrating the political parties of the United States, beginning with the colonial era. The explanation on the chart is as follows:

The s...

Postcard

Governor John W. Reynolds

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Description: Waist-up portrait of John W. Reynolds, Wisconsin's 36th governor. He sits in a chair holding a book. Behind him hangs the Wisconsin State Flag (right) and ...
Photograph

Portrait of John W. Reynolds

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Description: Waist-up portrait of John W. Reynolds sitting behind a desk. A book is laying open in front of him, and an American Flag is hanging on a pole in the backgr...
Photograph

Governor Lucey Receiving the Encyclopedia Britannica

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Description: Patrick J. Lucey standing at a podium (which is sitting on a table) in the State Historical Society surrounded by a group of men. Behind the group on the p...
Photograph

Patrick Lucey Visiting a Sick Boy

Date: 12 22 1971
Description: Governor Patrick J. Lucey sitting on a hospital bed holding something in his hands. A young boy, Douglas Huete, is sitting on the bed wearing a hospital go...
Historical Object

"The Great Society" Comic Book

Date: 1966
Description: Cover of a comic book about Lyndon B. Johnson as a superhero named "Super LBJ." The cover features a full-color illustration of a man wearing a red and whi...
Historical Object

Presidental Political Campaign Ephemera

Date: 10 1992
Description: Cover of a presidential political campaign comic book. The writer is Larry Doyle, and the illustrator is Alan Kupperberg.
Photograph

James Edward Doyle, Sr. Family

Date: 02 02 1958
Description: Attorney James E. Doyle, Sr. looking at a big picture book with his young daughter, Anne.
Photograph

We Saw You . . . at Labor Day Event

Date: 09 05 1960
Description: More than 300 people attend the annual Labor Day program sponsored by the Madison Federation of Labor at the Labor Temple, 1602 S. Park Street. Hilton Hann...

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