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Robert Kennedy Announces His Candidacy

Date: 03 16 1968
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 ...
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If Souls Could Always Dwell Above

Date: 1850
Description: Valentine's Day card with a center oval-framed image of a woman and a cherub leaning on an ornamental stone wall. A column with an ornate top is to the rig...
Photograph

Violet Lee Dousman and Fellow Travelers in Egypt

Date: 1896
Description: Group portrait including Violet Lee Dousman (back row, 4th from left) and her fellow travelers on a trip to Egypt.
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Obey and Stitt

Date: 06 1970
Description: Congressman David R. Obey with his administrative assistant Lyle Stitt walking down a hall in the United States Capitol building. Statues are along the wal...
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Vel Phillips in the Milwaukee Common Council

Date: 1970
Description: Vel Phillips speaking into a microphone at her desk in the Milwaukee Common Council. Other desks and men are behind her. The council room has ornate interi...
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The Gillett Children

Date: 1916
Description: Studio group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of the Gillett children, left to right: Sherry (b. 1913), Lorin (b. 1915), and Harry (b. 1910).
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Jean Emily Dyer Reese

Date: 1944
Description: Outdoor full-length portrait of Jean Emily Dyer (Reese) in her prom dress with a corsage. She is posed on stone steps with the train of her gown spread out...
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Two Women Posed on a Porch

Date: 1905
Description: Mary E. Smith, right, and a friend seated on the railing of a neo-classical residential front porch. There is another porch in the background.
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Congressman David Obey and His Son Craig

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Description: Congressman David Obey and his son Craig pose for a photo in the nation's Capitol. A line of people appear in the background.
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Obey and Proxmire

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Description: Congressman David R. Obey and Senator William Proxmire outside the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.
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Soledad O'Brien

Date: 11 06 2013
Description: Posed, seated portrait of national television journalist and featured speaker Soledad O’Brien at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
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Hans and Clara Skott

Date: 10 1944
Description: Full-length outdoor portrait of Hans and Clara Skott standing on the lawn in front of a brick building with white columns. Hans and Clara were the parents ...
Photograph

The "Family of Man" Exhibit

Date: 10 01 1958
Description: Guests at the evening opening party for the "Family of Man" photographic exhibition at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The exhibition was organi...
Photograph

The "Family of Man" Exhibit

Date: 10 01 1958
Description: Guests at the evening opening party for the "Family of Man" photographic exhibition, at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The exhibition was organ...
Photograph

The "Family of Man" Exhibit

Date: 10 01 1958
Description: Guests at the evening opening party for the "Family of Man" photographic exhibition, at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. The exhibition was organ...
Photograph

Elsa Seipp Madlener

Date: 1955
Description: A handwritten note describes this portrait as: "Aunt Elsa in her summer house "The Lindens" when she was eighty years old." She is wearing a print dress an...
Historical Object

Fargo Family

Date: 07 1900
Description: A decorated album page features two photographs of members of the Fargo family posing near the ornate porch of their home. In the photograph on the left, F...
Photograph

Louise Mears Fargo

Date: 1914
Description: Helen Mears Fargo (1866-1925) posing while standing in a three-quarter length portrait in front of the porch of the Fargo family home on Mulberry Street. S...
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The Cousins

Date: 06 1908
Description: The Holt and Stroh children are posing for a group portrait in the yard of "The Evergreens," home of Lucy Rumsey Holt's parents. Names from back to front: ...

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