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| 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: | 1986 |
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| Description: | Cartoon depicting a very old Uncle Sam signing the Genocide Treaty while a man behind him says, "Better 37 years late than never, I suppose!". |
| 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: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Key to a composite portrait of the members of Congress who voted for to pass the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which the caption misidenti... |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1986 |
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| Description: | At a press conference Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin announces the Save the Family Farm Act introduced with 27 other farm state legislators. Among ... |
| Date: | 07 29 1995 |
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| Description: | At a celebration for the 30th anniversary of Medicare, Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey and guests blow out the candles on a cake. |
| Date: | 1995 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin congressmen (left to right) Gerald Kleczka, David R. Obey, and Thomas Barrett listening to citizen opinions on Medicare reform at a forum. |
| Date: | 08 30 1956 |
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| Description: | Three members of Beautiful Madison, Inc. give a letter to Mayor Ivan Nestingen (seated at desk) requesting a city ordinance against littering in Madison st... |
| Date: | 02 27 1957 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Several men and women watch as Governor Patrick Lucey signs the Equal Rights Amendment. Lloyd A. Barbee (left), Marlin Schneider, two unidentified people, ... |
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| Description: | Fred Wertheimer, (fourth from the right) of Common Cause, delivers bags of citizen petitions to Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, (third from the left),... |
| Date: | 05 1937 |
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| Description: | In the U.S. Supreme Court Room, after hearing the Court hand down its decisions upholding the constitutionality of the old age insurance and unemployment i... |
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