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Assembly Chamber

Date: 02 04 1945
Description: Interior view of the Assembly Chamber at the Wisconsin State Capitol, with seating for legislators, featuring the Edward Blashfield mural: "The State of Wi...
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Assembly Chamber Mural

Date: 02 04 1945
Description: Wisconsin State Capitol Assembly Chamber mural, "The State of Wisconsin, its Past, Present, and Future," by Edwin Blashfield. Also shows Speaker's podium a...
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Governor Signing Bill

Date: 05 15 1945
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...
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Governor Goodland Signing Agriculture Bill

Date: 05 29 1945
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...
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Wisconsin State Assembly

Date: 1947
Description: View from the back, of the State Assembly in session.
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State Assembly Audience

Date: 1947
Description: Audience at a session of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
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Assembly and Conservation Commission Meeting

Date: 1947
Description: A Wisconsin State Assembly committee confers with members of the State Conservation Commission.
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Man Holding Monkey in Wisconsin State Capitol Building

Date: 04 17 1947
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 ...
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Walter Cappel, CIO Lobbyist

Date: 07 18 1947
Description: Walter Cappel, lobbyist for Wisconsin CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations), is sitting on a "plunder box" watching the State Assembly.
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Governor Oscar Rennebohm Signing Bill

Date: 08 01 1947
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm signing a bill with Voyta J. Wrabetz, Commissioner of the Industrial Commission, and others looking on.
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Governor Rennebohm Signing Youth Service Bill

Date: 08 19 1947
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...
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Junior Lobbyists Advocating for State Symbols

Date: 03 02 1949
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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Junior Jobbyists Advocating for State Symbols

Date: 03 02 1949
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...
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Farmers Protesting Rural School Reorganization Plan

Date: 03 02 1949
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 ...
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Lyall T. Beggs

Date: 03 02 1949
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...
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Lyall T. Beggs

Date: 03 02 1949
Description: Lyall T. Beggs, former legislator from Madison and presently national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, at the speaker's rostrum in the state asse...
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Governor Rennebohm Signing Anti-Segregation Law

Date: 05 04 1949
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...
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Governor Rennebohm Signing a Bill

Date: 07 08 1949
Description: Governor Rennebohm signing a bill with eight men witnessing.
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Governor Rennebohm Signing a Bill

Date: 07 08 1949
Description: Governor Rennebohm signing a bill with six men witnessing.
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Senate Bill 458

Date: 1947
Description: Pages one and Two of Senate Bill 458 regarding the depositing of toxic insecticides.

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