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| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Social action poster, with edit marks in red, on the United States Constitution, titled: "Read It And Weep." Red arrows point to descriptions of S1 in the ... |
| Date: | 04 29 1965 |
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| Description: | An Assembly bill to establish a full-time Equal Opportunity Commission got 5 1/2 hours of pro and con testimony at a public hearing before the Assembly Jud... |
| Date: | 06 01 1965 |
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| Description: | Two unidentified individuals (man and woman) discuss a beverage tax proposed by the state legislature. The man may be Edwin Jones? |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Kathryn Morrison (far left) observes as Governor Patrick Lucey signs, possibly, a piece of legislation. State Representative Mary Lou Munts (seated next to... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Signing of the 1975 Inheritance Tax Bill, 1975 Senate Bill 113. Protestors used the occasion to show opposition to the upgrade of Highway 18-151 to an expr... |
| Date: | 08 1973 |
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| Description: | Governor Pat Lucey signing Chapter 115 ensuring public education for children with disabilities as parents, children and others look on. Midge Miller stand... |
| Date: | 08 1973 |
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| Description: | Governor Pat Lucey visiting with children in the Governor's Office after signing Chapter 115 ensuring public education for children with disabilities. |
| Date: | 05 17 1945 |
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| Description: | The opening of the campaign for the Full Employment Bill of 1945 was attended by, from left to right: Ted Silvey, Chairman of the Reconversion Committee CI... |
| Date: | 05 02 1978 |
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| Description: | Governor Martin Schreiber is shaking hands with Rick Phelps of the Youth Policy and Law Center as he is handing Phelps a pen used to sign AB 874, the Child... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with two cartoons under the headline. The cartoon on the left is titled: "Snowed Under," and displays a truck labeled American Indu$trie$ stalled in... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with two cartoon panels. In the panel on the left, a man in a military uniform, labeled "General Business," is forced to dance by a hand firing a gu... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster includes a cartoon panel showing a scale. On one side, which is labeled: "Price to Consumer," are weights labeled: "Supply, Demand, Quality, and Was... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a cartoon panel depicting a mule, labeled: "Industry," which is being harassed by five horseflies, who are labeled: "Unfair Laws, Strife, ... |
| Date: | 06 03 1953 |
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| Description: | Five men standing behind Gov. Walter Kohler watching him sign a document in his office. One of the men might be Paul Thielan from Brookfield, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with text inside red and blue borders. It is a copy of an executive order by Julius C. Gunter, Governor of Colorado. Text reads, in part: "It is you... |
| Date: | 01 12 1955 |
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| Description: | The newly elected Assembly speaker, Mark Catlin, Jr. (right), signing the official vote register as Robert H. Boyson (left), voting machine operator, is lo... |
| Date: | 04 27 1964 |
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| Description: | Twenty-seven members of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) are linking arms and singing "We Shall Overcome" in the balcony of the Wisconsin Assembly Ch... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire posing with a poster detailing money saving bills he has introduced and how the savings can be used. |
| Date: | 05 09 1958 |
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| Description: | Governor Vernon Thompson signs an official proclamation declaring May as national hearing month. Sitting on his knee is Jean Monteith, 4, of Richland Cente... |
| Date: | 01 14 1959 |
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| Description: | Lieutenant Governor Philleo Nash gavels the Wisconsin State Senate to order for the 1959 session. He is a Democrat from Wisconsin Rapids. |
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