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| Date: | 03 31 1931 |
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| Description: | Governor Philip F. La Follette signing 4 cent gas tax bill. |
| Date: | 07 30 1965 |
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| Description: | President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs the Medicare bill. Former President Harry S. Truman, "who started it all," is present with Mrs. Bess Truman, Hubert H... |
| Date: | 03 01 1951 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr. signs a bill that would liberalize state housing loans to veterans. The legislators grouped around him in the Governor's off... |
| 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: | 09 31 1961 |
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| Description: | A cartoon of a passed bill leaving Assembly holding a sign that reads, "Look Ma, No Veto!". |
| 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: | View from the back, of the State Assembly in session. |
| 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: | 04 17 1947 |
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| Description: | David Mackin, Milwaukee World War II veteran, is shown with his monkey, Joe, in a state capitol hearing room. The bill under discussion would allow anyone ... |
| Date: | 07 18 1947 |
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| Description: | Walter Cappel, lobbyist for Wisconsin CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations), is sitting on a "plunder box" watching the State Assembly. |
| Date: | 08 01 1947 |
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| Description: | Governor Oscar Rennebohm signing a bill with Voyta J. Wrabetz, Commissioner of the Industrial Commission, and others looking on. |
| Date: | 08 19 1947 |
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| Description: | Looking on as Governor Oscar Rennebohm signed the Youth Service Bill were, left to right: Frank C. Ross, Senator Rudolph Schlabach, Tom Peterson, Judge Alb... |
| Date: | 08 14 1935 |
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| Description: | President Franklin D. Roosevelt about to sign the Social Security Act of 1935. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Close-up of Gaylord Nelson, chairman of the Monopoly Subcommittee of the Select Small Business Committee, during hearings on the pharmaceutical industry. |
| 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... |
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