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Submitting Petitions for the Progressive Party

Date: 06 18 1934
Description: Two men and a woman are turning in signature petitions to Secretary of State Theodore Damann to form the Progressive Party.
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Mrs. Augusta Giddings

Date: 05 02 1944
Description: Mrs. Augusta Giddings signs documents, with Mayor Halsey Kreage as a witness, selling her property at the eastern end of the 900 block of East Gorham Stree...
Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne Catalog Cover

Date: 1896
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Osborne agricultural machinery showing a woman and two young girls mixing ingredients for a recipe from an Osborne cata...
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Wisconsin Council of Churches Dinner

Date: 01 20 1948
Description: Officers and speakers attending the annual dinner meeting of the Wisconsin Council of Churches: front row, Dr. Hermann Morse, administrator of the Presbyte...
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Two Women at Entrance to Freedom Train

Date: 06 25 1948
Description: Helen Beckwith, Brodhead, and Mrs. J.L. Specker, pictured standing at the entrance to the Freedom Train, parked on the tracks behind the Chicago, Milwaukee...
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Two Women with Letter

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Description: Two young women, one sitting and one standing, pose with a letter for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. Both of the women are well-dressed ...
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Two Women Wearing White Dresses

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Description: A studio portrait of two women wearing white dresses and elaborate hats in front of a painted backdrop. Both are seated on the same chair holding flowers, ...
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Postman Delivering Mail

Date: 04 23 1937
Description: A postman handing an envelope to a woman sitting behind a desk in an office. The woman is wearing a headset, perhaps for a telephone.
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Madison Heart Fund Drive

Date: 01 24 1950
Description: Mrs. Lindley V. (Virginia) Sprague and Mrs. George (Dorothy) Rentschler with the publicity materials they will use at information desks for the Madison Hea...
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Campaign Photograph of Carter Wells

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Description: Carter Wells polling on the street, taken for a campaign booklet. He was running for 5th district congress.
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Washington Orthopedic School Girl Scouts

Date: 03 07 1952
Description: Erna Schweppe showing members of her Troop No. 6 at Washington Orthopedic school a proclamation by Governor Walter Kohler recognizing the 40th anniversary ...
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Recording History

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Description: Journalist Cecil Brown, then with the Mutual Broadcasting Network, carrying the portable recorder that he used for interviewing while he was reporting on o...
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World Jewish Child's Day

Date: 04 01 1957
Description: Governor Vernon W. Thomson receives a gavel made by school children in Israel upon his signing of a proclamation of World Jewish Child's Day. Members of th...
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Frame 18: Young People Discussing

Date: 1964
Description: A group of people fill out papers.
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Frame 26: People Planning Together at Table

Date: 1964
Description: A group of four African-American men are seated at a table looking at papers. Behind them a large group of people are sitting and standing.
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Women Seated at Table

Date: 1966
Description: Two women are outdoors seated at a table in front of a building, surrounded by several people. One of the women is holding a document in her hands, showing...
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Studio Portrait of European American Women

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three unidentified women. They are all wearing dark-colored dresses and hats and are posing around a prop...
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Outdoor Group Portrait of Three European American Women

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of three unidentified women sitting together on the grass. In the background is a wooden building. The woman on the left is posing k...
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Mrs. A.G. Zimmerman

Date: 1905
Description: Mrs. A.G. Zimmerman posing in a home on W. Washington Avenue. She is standing reading a document in a parlor with a piano.
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Calendar Pinup Girl for the Month of January

Date: 08 31 1923
Description: A McCormick-Deering calendar with a pinup girl. Attached to the calendar is a label for the "Lyons Implement Co., Farm Implements and Hardware, San Diego, ...

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