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| Date: | 06 13 1919 |
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| Description: | Former Wisconsin State Senator David G. James, Republican from Richland Center (1908-1912) and the father of suffragist Ada James. The photograph was likel... |
| Date: | 05 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Governor Goodland signing a bill (probably, Ch 131, Laws of 1945 relaxing the state's food sanitation law and easing animal slaughter on family farms) with... |
| Date: | 05 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Governor Walter S. Goodland signing a bill in his office, with two men looking on. The bill is probably Chapter 233 of the Laws of 1945 on the as... |
| Date: | 01 17 1919 |
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| Description: | Governor Emmanuel Philipp ratifying the 18th Amendment which made Prohibition law. From left to right: Executive Messenger, Samuel Banks; Senator George B.... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | A cartoon of a rejected bill being sent away by a man in a top hat, who is holding back a dog on a leash. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Audience at a session of the Wisconsin State Assembly. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin State Assembly committee confers with members of the State Conservation Commission. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin State Senate in the Senate Chamber of the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 03 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Donald Hawley, left, and Joseph Reitmair, right, grade school pupils from Verona, appearing with "Ranger Mac" of WHA to register their views on the officia... |
| Date: | 03 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Grade school children from throughout Wisconsin advocate for their choices for the official state tree, flower, and bird while attending a hearing in the a... |
| Date: | 03 02 1949 |
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| Description: | A crowd estimated at 1,000 jammed the state assembly chambers to take part in a hearing on a bill by the state education commission to set up new laws for ... |
| Date: | 03 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Lyall T. Beggs, former legislator from Madison and presently national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, being escorted to the speaker's rostrum in... |
| Date: | 05 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Governor Oscar Rennebohm, seated at his desk in the foreground, signs a bill into law ending segregation in the Wisconsin National Guard because of race, c... |
| Date: | 02 07 1950 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Governor Oscar Rennebohm signing a proclamation officially announcing the observance of Nation Brotherhood Week. With him is Wisconsin Supreme Co... |
| Date: | 08 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Governor Oscar Rennebohm, seated, signs a proclamation that officially opens National Home Week in Wisconsin. With him at the signing, standing left to rig... |
| Date: | 06 07 1951 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Kohler signs into law the bill providing that the governor and the legislature shall review all public expenditures, including money from r... |
| Date: | 03 07 1952 |
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| Description: | Erna Schweppe showing members of her Troop No. 6 at Washington Orthopedic school a proclamation by Governor Walter Kohler recognizing the 40th anniversary ... |
| Date: | 11 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Lyall Scott, an epilepsy sufferer, and one of the leaders in lobbying for rights for people with epilepsy in the state of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 11 13 1997 |
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| Description: | President Bill Clinton signing the FY 1998 Labor, HHS, and Education Appropriation Bill. Behind the President are Vice President Al Gore and Wisconsin Cong... |
| Date: | 10 29 1954 |
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| 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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