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People Counting Pennies

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: People counting pennies that came in the mail for the Dr. Kate Million Penny fundraiser. Country doctor Kate Pelham Newcomb -- known as "the angel on snow...
Photograph

CIO Fair Booth

Date: 
Description: Two men stand in front of a booth sponsored by the Congress of Industrial Organizations at a fair. In addition to displays on farmer-labor solidarity and v...
Document

Packer Letterhead

Date: 04 12 1950
Description: Green Bay Packers letterhead dated April 12th. The content of the letter is addressed to "DEAR FELLOW WORKER" and details a small aspect of the Green Bay P...
Print

Ne-rucha-ja Feast Program

Date: 1929
Description: Front cover of a program for a feast and pow-wow in support of the Lake Monona Wild Life Sanctuary group's attempt to preserve Frost's Woods (Ne-rucha-ja)....
Photograph

The Incomparable Hildegarde

Date: 03 1941
Description: Hildegarde Loretta Sell, better known as Hildegarde, was a well known cabaret singer who was born in Adell, Wisconsin in 1906 and raised in New Holstein. D...
Photograph

Dave and Mary Lou

Date: 1994
Description: Mary Lou Munts, a member of the Wisconsin Assembly, and Congressman David R. Obey at a fundraiser for Obey at the Madison Club.
Photograph

Political Fundraiser

Date: 
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (left) and Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl at a fundraiser for Obey. Jim Chapman is the man between them.
Photograph

Democratic Barbecue Fundraiser

Date: 08 1990
Description: Democrats at a fundraising barbecue for Wisconsin State Senator Russ Decker weigh down the make-shift seating.
Photograph

Obey and Ed Garvey

Date: 1994
Description: Congressman David R. Obey with Edward R. Garvey during a fundraiser for Obey at the Madison Club in Madison. Garvey was the executive director of the Natio...
Photograph

Brooks McCormick and the United Negro College Fund

Date: 
Description: Brooks McCormick stands with men who are all holding a large sign above their heads that reads: "$750,000."
Poster

"Art Sale for Soglin" Poster

Date: 03 15 1974
Description: Poster for "Art Sale for Soglin" at Gallery 853, 853 Williamson Street. In the center is a head and shoulders posterized portrait of Paul Soglin silk-scree...
Poster

Back The Boys, Do it Now

Date: 1918
Description: Poster promoting a war fund drive in Marathon County, bordered by American flags and logos for the "Marathon County War Fund, Back the Boys," featuring an ...
Poster

I Have Bought Another Liberty Loan. Have You?

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring a large version of the Liberty Loan button with the Statue of Liberty and the words: "I Own a Liberty Bond." An arrow directs the viewer f...
Poster

Shall we be more tender with our dollars than the lives of our sons

Date: 1917
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of Uncle Sam reaching for the viewer's hand (or perhaps money), and gesturing behind him to waves of soldiers and airplane...
Poster

Hun Or Home

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a young woman clutching an infant and turning to look at a German soldier, who is rising out of the shadows. The soldie...
Poster

Sure! We'll Finish the Job

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a man reaching into his pocket. He is wearing overalls and a hat and his sleeves are rolled up. There are pins on his o...
Poster

For Home and Country

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a uniformed soldier carrying a small boy in his right arm and hugging a woman with his left arm. The woman is fingering...
Poster

For Home and Country

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a uniformed soldier carrying a small boy in his right arm and hugging a woman with his left arm. The woman is fingering...
Poster

And They Thought We Couldn't Fight

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a smiling, bloody and bandaged soldier holding two war helmets by their chinstraps in his left hand; with his right he ...
Poster

They Kept the Sea Lanes Open

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a submarine emerging from the ocean. About seven men are rising out of hatches on the conning tower and deck and waving...

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