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| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Poster for "Democratic Candidates Kept Off the Ticket" for "Election Tuesday Nov. 7, 1922." Candidates and their photos include: Joseph R. Pfiffner, Emil T... |
| Date: | 11 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Women campaign workers call voters to support the Labor Political League and vote for candidates sympathetic to Labor issues. |
| Date: | 11 10 1956 |
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| Description: | Bet winner and Eisenhower supporter Edwin L. Warner enjoys his payoff from bet loser and Adlai Stevenson backer John Shaat, as Shaat tows Warner along the ... |
| Date: | 08 27 1957 |
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| Description: | William Proxmire, his wife, Ellen (to Proxmire's right), and his supporters celebrate his victory in the special election to fill the Senate seat vacated u... |
| Date: | 08 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Jubilant Proxmire supporters dance in the streets in Milwaukee after Democrat William Proxmire won the special election to fill the seat left vacant by the... |
| Date: | 09 22 1964 |
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| Description: | Three young men displaying some campaign materials outside their own GOP headquarters in a garage at 8608 W. Meinecke Avenue in Wauwatosa. They are, from l... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | A campaign picture of Democrat Henry Reuss with his sleeves rolled up in a factory talking to a foreman while an African-American worker looks on. This was... |
| Date: | 11 04 1964 |
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| Description: | A smiling Warren Knowles displays a newspaper with the headline "Johnson Landslide! Reynolds Re-elected". Reynolds was Knowles' political opponent. |
| Date: | 11 04 1970 |
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| Description: | Democrat Patrick J. Lucey (center) celebrating his election as governor of Wisconsin with Martin Schreiber (left), his running mate, and Senator William Pr... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A map of Milwaukee County showing the county supervisor districts and the city wards. The map also includes the names of those on the on the board of elect... |
| Date: | 03 27 1957 |
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| Description: | Two U.W. Milwaukee coeds stopped at the city garage to help employees place "Be alert — VOTE!" bumper stickers on city vehicles. Miss Nancy Breske is apply... |
| Date: | 04 12 1960 |
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| Description: | In a recount that lasted almost four hours, the tide turned in favor of Alderman John Budzien, who apparently had lost last Tuesday's election to Robert A.... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Campaign poster instructing voters how to write in Herbert J. Steffes for the office of Municipal Judge of Milwaukee County. He was appointed to serve the ... |
| Date: | 11 05 1956 |
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| Description: | Telephone callers started a new phase of the "get out the vote" campaign Monday at Proxmire for Governor headquarters, 135 W. Wells Street. More than 40 te... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Mother and small son in voting booth, with the child squatting on the floor and peeking out beneath the curtain. |
| Date: | 11 08 1966 |
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| Description: | An older woman and a younger woman talking in front of a voting machine. Caption reads: "HASN'T MISSED AN ELECTION — Mrs. Mary Sturm, 71, of 820 E. Ogden a... |
| Date: | 11 09 1960 |
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| Description: | A uniformed police officer is sitting in a folding chair and moving pieces on a chessboard. Caption reads: "On duty Tuesday at the voting place in t... |
| Date: | 04 03 1968 |
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| Description: | Many people are standing or sitting in a room with "Walther for Mayor" signs on the wall. Some are looking at a television in the foreground. Caption reads... |
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