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Photograph

Ballot Box at the City-County Building

Date: 1978
Description: Ballot box collects the vote by absentee ballot in the City County building.
Photograph

Tattered Flag

Date: 09 09 1978
Description: View of tattered flag at the Marquette Middle School Polling Place.
Poster

Madison Vote-In Poster

Date: 03 1971
Description: Poster announcing a Madison Vote-In event. Caption reads, "Be informed! Know Your Candidates!".
Poster

Register Your Discontent. Vote.

Date: 01 1972
Description: Poster encouraging young people to register to vote. Includes a picture of a barefoot man with a guitar and blue jeans (a college student, hippie, musician...
Poster

Register to Vote Poster, Female

Date: 10 1972
Description: Poster encouraging young people to vote in the 1972 presidential election. Text reads, "Maybe they gave you the right to vote because they thought you'd ne...
Poster

Register to Vote Poster, Male

Date: 1972
Description: Poster encouraging young people to vote in the 1972 presidential election. Text reads, "Maybe they gave you the right to vote because they thought you'd ne...
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...
Poster

McGovern Come Home America Poster

Date: 09 1972
Description: Campaign poster supporting 1972 Democratic presidential ticket McGovern and Shriver for. Features the slogan, "Come Home America!" Includes a peace sign de...
Poster

Judy Greenspan for School Board

Date: 1973
Description: Poster promoting Judy Greenspan for school board. Her platform includes: passage of the high school bill of rights, an end to discriminatory practices agai...
Photograph

Union Election

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

Negotiations at Gresham

Date: 1975
Description: Negotiations between Neil Hawpetoss, a leader of the Menominee Warrior Society that had seized the Alexian Novitiate at Gresham in January 1975, and a memb...
Photograph

Village Election

Date: 1974
Description: "Gordon Neitzel keeps tabs on a village election."
Photograph

Celebration

Date: 11 04 1970
Description: Democrat Patrick J. Lucey (center) celebrating his election as governor of Wisconsin with Martin Schreiber (left), his running mate, and Senator William Pr...
Poster

Athletes For The President

Date: 1972
Description: A President Nixon re-election poster with approximately 360 signatures of athletes (appearing in alphabetical order) on it. At the top of the poster is the...
Photograph

Paul Soglin Speaking While Holding Roses

Date: 04 03 1973
Description: Paul Soglin, 27 years old, speaking into microphones while holding three roses. He is wearing a corduroy jacket. The location may be the Labor Temple on th...
Historical Object

Presidential Political Campaign Buttons

Date: 1972
Description: Framed assortment of political campaign buttons for Richard Nixon and running mate Spiro Agnew, and George McGovern and running mate Sargent Shriver. The c...
Photograph

Selling Pictures of President Allende

Date: 11 03 1970
Description: A smiling young man is selling pictures of President Allende on the street on Inauguration Day. He was the first Socialist President of Chile. In the backg...
Photograph

Democratic Process

Date: 1976
Description: Poll workers wait for voters at the Town Hall. They are seated at tables on a platform. Below are a wood burning stove and folding chairs.

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