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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

Politics Wisconsin Style

Date: 08 1990
Description: Grilling burgers and corn on the cob, all washed down with beer... a typical menu for a Wisconsin political fundraiser. This event was for State Senator Ru...
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

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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

Anti-Anita Bryant Bash Poster

Date: 1977
Description: Flyer promoting a party at the Great Hall in UW-Madison's Memorial Union. The party was a fund-raiser for organizations opposing anti-gay discrimination in...
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

Lest They Perish

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a woman with a baby tied to her back, standing amid the ruins of some buildings. Poster text reads: Lest They Perish. C...
Poster

The Child at Your Door

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a girl wearing a headscarf, looking directly at the viewer. Poster text reads: "The Child at Your Door. 400,000 Orphans...
Poster

Lest We Perish

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a young woman whose headscarf has slipped down onto her shoulders, holding out her hands to the viewer. Poster text rea...
Poster

They Shall Not Perish

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of Columbia, who is brandishing a sword and protecting a young woman sitting beside her holding onto her legs. A flag is w...
Poster

Give or We Perish

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a woman clutching her coat around her and looking nervously to the right. Poster text reads: "Give or We Perish. Americ...
Poster

Let's End It — Quick With Liberty Bonds

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a woman as Columbia holding out her hands to the viewer. Behind her, a city is in flames. Poster text reads: "Let's End...

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