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Elsie, the Borden Co. Cow

Date: 07 21 1953
Description: Elsie, the Borden Co. cow with Gov. Walter Kohler, acting mayor Carl Wilhelm, Alice in Dairyland Mary Ellen Jenks and another man. They are posing together...
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Lieutenant Colonel George R. Hansen at Football Game

Date: 10 03 1953
Description: Former P.O.W. George R. Hansen posing for a photograph after a football game between Wisconsin and Marquette at Camp Randall. The game climaxed a day of ho...
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World Jewish Child's Day

Date: 03 31 1954
Description: Governor Walter Kohler is presented with flowers from a group of Wisconsin Hadassah women during the World Jewish Child's Day commemoration. Pictured with ...
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World Jewish Child's Day

Date: 03 31 1954
Description: Two representatives of Hadassah present Governor Walter Kohler with a plaque of pressed flowers in commemoration of World Jewish Child's Day.
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American Jewish Tercentenary of Jews in United States

Date: 09 10 1954
Description: Group portrait of Governor Walter Kohler with five Jews observing the 300th anniversary of the September 1634 arrival of Jewish settlers in New Amsterdam, ...
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Wisconsin Lions Clubs Light Bulb Sale

Date: 09 29 1954
Description: Governor Walter Kohler buys the first bag of light bulbs from Ed Steul (center), Madison, Lions' district governor; and H. M. Schmid (right), New Glarus, c...
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Badfish Creek Anti-Sewerage Petition

Date: 10 20 1954
Description: Governor Walter Kohler being is presented with a 147-foot petition bearing signatures of 5,000 area residents seeking to ban the diversion of sewage from t...
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First Veterans Day Proclamation in Wisconsin

Date: 10 29 1954
Description: Governor Walter Kohler signs a proclamation making November 11, 1954 the first Veterans Day in Wisconsin. Looking on, left to right, are: Francis Lorbecki ...
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Governor's Commission on Human Rights

Date: 10 29 1954
Description: Members of the youth advisory board and the young adult board of the Governor's Commission on Human Rights gather around Governor Walter Kohler prior to a ...
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Governor Walter Kohler

Date: 10 30 1954
Description: Wisconsin Governor Walter Kohler sits at his desk in the Wisconsin State Capitol executive office while making phone calls to encourage state residents to ...
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YWCA National Centennial

Date: 10 29 1954
Description: Group portrait of four of the six members of a Madison group named to be part of the National YWCA Citizens' committee for observance of the YWCA centennia...
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Inauguration of Governor Walter Kohler

Date: 01 03 1955
Description: Governor Walter Kohler is shown with his right hand raised while taking his oath of office, being administered by Chief Justice Edward Fairchild of the Wis...
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Republican Delegates for Eisenhower

Date: 03 02 1956
Description: Papers containing President Eisenhower's consent to be a candidate in the Wisconsin presidential primary and the President's certified list of delegate can...
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Boys' Club of America Award

Date: 03 28 1956
Description: Governor Walter J. Kohler receives the Golden Anniversary Award from two representatives of the Boys' Clubs of America.
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First Governor's Conference on Aging Population

Date: 05 26 1956
Description: Discussing plans for the First Governor's Conference on an Aging Population are Governor Walter Kohler; Minnetta Hastings, chairman of the committee on the...
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National Business and Professional Women's Week

Date: 09 18 1956
Description: Wisconsin governor Walter J. Kohler signs a proclamation for National Business and Professional Women's Week. Looking on are, left to right: Mrs. Herbert E...
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Daylight Saving Referendum Set

Date: 02 27 1957
Description: The photo caption states in full: "Gov. Vernon W. Thomson had an audience of six daylight saving time advocates when he signed into law the bill setting up...
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World Jewish Child's Day

Date: 04 01 1957
Description: Governor Vernon W. Thomson receives a gavel made by school children in Israel upon his signing of a proclamation of World Jewish Child's Day. Members of th...
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Junior Historians

Date: 05 25 1957
Description: Wisconsin's outstanding junior historians are honored at ceremonies in the Wisconsin State Capitol Building. The students, left to right, are Linda Lund, F...
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Director of the State Bureau of Personnel

Date: 08 26 1957
Description: Governor Vernon Thomson (left) is handing a letter of appointment to Francis J. Walsh to be the acting director of the State Bureau of Personnel. In the ce...

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