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Altmeyer at Inter-American Conference on Social Security

Date: 1951
Description: Arthur Altmeyer speaking at the Inter-American Conference on Social Security, which took place in Buenes Aires. Eva Peron is seated to his left, wearing he...
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Woodrow Wilson

Date: 1917
Description: A portrait of Woodrow Wilson, taken shortly before his 61st birthday on December 28.
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Ambassador Lord and Lady Halifax

Date: 12 01 1944
Description: Ambassador Lord (Edward Frederick Lindley Wood) and Lady Halifax, British ambassador to the United States, at the train station. Left to right: Lady Halifa...
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Lord and Lady Halifax Visit

Date: 12 01 1944
Description: Ambassador Lord Halifax, British ambassador to the United States, meeting with Madison and Wisconsin labor leaders. Lord Halifax is in the center, and to t...
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Palestinian Admires Holstein Cow

Date: 01 30 1947
Description: Charles Brace, Lonerock, fieldman for the National Holstein-Friesian Association, showing a Holstein cow to L.E. Shmaragd, Palestine, at the University of ...
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Eleanor Roosevelt at ADA Meeting

Date: 1948
Description: Eleanor Roosevelt at a foreign policy committee meeting at the Americans for Democratic Action convention. Along with John Kenneith Galbraith, Hubert Humph...
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"Two Italian Leaders Visit Here"

Date: 09 27 1949
Description: "Two distinguished visitors from Italy are pictured above with their Madison hosts. They are, left to right, Dr. Diego Spinelli, director-general of the It...
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Yusif El-Bandak, a Christian Arab

Date: 09 27 1949
Description: Pictured is Yusif El-Bandak, a Christian Arab and son of Bethlehem's mayor, who is touring the United States as representative of that community to make th...
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Novak in Japan

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Description: Journalist Robert Novak with Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone in Tokyo, Japan.
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Indira Gandhi Visits Madison

Date: 11 04 1949
Description: Indira Gandhi, daughter of Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru of India, speaking with University of Wisconsin President E.B. Fred inside Memorial Union...
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Dr. Ralph J. Bunche

Date: 05 02 1950
Description: Dr. Ralph J. Bunche (center), acting secretary general for the United Nations (UN) department of trusteeship, is shown Monday night with Professor Llewelly...
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Speaker at Wisconsin Council of Catholic Women

Date: 05 17 1950
Description: Shown discussing his talk on 'The United Nations — What It Means To You' with Mrs. I.J. Maurer at the 35th annual conference of the Wisconsin Council of Ca...
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Khrushchev's First Hot Dog

Date: 09 22 1959
Description: Interviewed outside a meat packing plant near Des Moines, Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev pronounced his first American hot dog to be "wonderful, but not...
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Root Commission Members in Rail Passenger Car

Date: 06 1917
Description: Group of Root Commission members sitting in "the drawing room car of the Imperial train of Ex-Czar Nicholas." Cyrus McCormick, Jr. is standing at right. Th...
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Root Commission Members Seated for Meal

Date: 06 1917
Description: Root Commission members seated at a long table in a dining car of the Imperial train of the Ex-Czar Nicholas.
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Lessing Rosenwald and John Foster Dulles

Date: 06 04 1963
Description: Lessing Rosenwald, of the American Council for Judaism, shakes hands with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles during a conference on United States foreig...
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Governor Kohler and Austrian Chancellor Figl

Date: 05 21 1952
Description: Governor Walter Kohler, (left) chats with Chancellor Leopold Figl, Austrian Chancellor, during the latter's visit to Madison. Dr. Figl, on a 16-day visit t...
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Clarence Beebe and Otto Kral

Date: 05 24 1953
Description: Clarence Beebe, director of the Four Lakes Drum and Bugle Corps of Madison, left, shakes hands with his "adopted Austrian son", Otto Kral. Kral has been l...
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International Civil Defense Directors

Date: 09 13 1954
Description: Wisconsin's civil defense director, Major General Ralph Olson (seated), hosts four European civil defense directors on a tour of civil defense units in the...
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Negotiating for Peace

Date: 1975
Description: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat (center), and on far left Egyptian Vice President Hosni Mubarak, meeting with a delegation from the U.S. House of Represenat...

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