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Victor Berger Campaign Poster

Date: 1918
Description: Campaign poster for Victor Berger (1860-1929), U.S. Senatorial campaign. This large poster documents Berger's campaign for United States Senate in a spec...
Photograph

Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Speaking from Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 11 1924
Description: Robert M. La Follette, Sr. speaking to a large crowd from the Wisconsin State Capitol steps. This speech marked the end of his independent campaign for the...
Photograph

Senator Joseph McCarthy Eating Breakfast

Date: 11 06 1946
Description: Joseph R. McCarthy in the home of friends Urban and Margery Van Susteren of Little Chute, on the morning after his election to the U.S. Senate. Van Sustere...
Photograph

La Follette Family Listens to the Returns

Date: 11 1924
Description: Robert M. La Follette, Sr., with Isabel Bacon La Follette (Mrs. Philip La Follette), Mrs. John J. Blaine, Philip Fox La Follette, Governor John J. Blaine, ...
Photograph

Harry S. Truman and Adlai Stevenson

Date: 07 1952
Description: The Democratic convention, with Harry S. Truman and Adlai Stevenson standing at a podium.
Photograph

Rally for John F. Kennedy

Date: 10 23 1960
Description: View of audience at a rally for John F. Kennedy for president.
Magazine or Periodical

Pro-McKinley Political Cartoon

Date: 08 29 1896
Description: Cover of Harper's Weekly, with a pro-William McKinley Presidential cartoon depicting McKinley as a soldier in 1861 and William Jennings Bryan as an ...
Poster

Democratic Candidates poster

Date: 1922
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...
Photograph

Robert M. La Follette, Sr., Votes

Date: 1924
Description: View of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., at the voting booth in Maple Bluff, Wisconsin at the conclusion of his independent, third-party Presidential campaign.
Photograph

Governor Oscar Rennebohm Listens to Broadcast

Date: 1948
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm and friends listening to broadcast.
Print

Rutherford B. Hayes

Date: 1881
Description: Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (1877-1881). Born in Delaware, Ohio on October 4, 1822, he died on January 17, 1893 in Fremont, O...
Photograph

Progressive Party Returns

Date: 1934
Description: In 1934 the La Follette brothers, the sons of Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., broke with the Republican Party and founded the Progressive Party of Wisc...
Photograph

Election Board

Date: 09 1925
Description: The Clear Lake election board inside the town hall.
Poster

McCarthy's Second Campaign

Date: 1939
Description: Campaign poster for Joseph R. McCarthy's campaign for circuit judge. McCarthy was considered an underdog in this race, but he campaigned successfully by dr...
Poster

Vandalized Victor Berger Campaign Poster

Date: 1915
Description: Campaign poster for Victor Berger (1860-1929), U.S. Senatorial campaign. The poster was used by Berger, Socialist candidate for the U.S. Senate in the camp...
Poster

McGovern Presidential Campaign Poster

Date: 09 1972
Description: Campaign poster for 1972 Democratic Presidential nominee George McGovern, who lost the election to Richard Nixon. Features a large screen printed brown pic...
Photograph

Union Election

Date: 02 06 1973
Description: Local P-28 of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers union votes for their officers.
Photograph

Contract Ratification Vote

Date: 10 1962
Description: Members of United Packinghouse Workers Union Local 783 voting on the contract with the Swift Company.
Photograph

NLRB Election

Date: 08 1951
Description: Organizers for the United Packinghouse Workers of America hand out leaflets concerning an upcoming National Labor Relations Board election to be held at th...
Photograph

AFL v. CIO

Date: 
Description: Women workers at the Swift Company plant pass up literature passed out by AFL representatives before a National Labor Relations Board election. The Packing...

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