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| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Group of people on the front porch, weighing the guests. A visit was considered successful if the guests weighed more when they left. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Engraving from a painting of John Adams. Inscription reads: "John Adams From a Painting by Chappel, in the possession of the Publishers. Johnson, Fry & C... |
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| Description: | An engraving of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Philip Livingston, and Roger Sherman, drafters of the Declaration of Independence gathered... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Richard M. Nixon, seated, at four years of age, wearing a sailor suit and Dutch-boy haircut. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait of Thomas Thunder (HoonkHaGaKah) (Son of [WaConChaKah] John Thunder aka Dr. Thunder and [WeHonPeKaw] Lucy Bear, Thunder), and h... |
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| Description: | Newspaper workers perusing hundreds of photographs. There are three men holding some of the photographs and the rest are mounted on the walls around them. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Roseline Peck, born 1808 - died 1898, first white woman in Madison, Wisconsin. She was the wife of the first tavern keeper, Eben Peck. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of photographer Gerhard Gesell, Sr. and his wife Christine Giesen Gesell taken shortly after their marriage in 1879. She is sitting in a ch... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | President Jimmy Carter waves to the audience who had come to hear him speak. Standing next to the President is Congressman David R. Obey and his family. Se... |
| 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: | 03 06 1986 |
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| Description: | Secretary of State George Schultz during the Reagan Administration (second from the left) testifying before the Foreign Operations Subcommittee. Leaning fo... |
| Date: | 01 1979 |
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| Description: | Congressman David Obey (right) enjoys lunch at a senior center in his northern Wisconsin congressional district. |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin checking on House floor activity on television. A table set with place settings appears behind him. |
| Date: | 02 07 1985 |
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| Description: | David R. Obey of Wisconsin, chair of the Joint Economic Committee. Opposite him, (in the foreground) is Secretary of Agriculture John R. Block, testifying ... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Congressmen David R. Obey of Wisconsin and Ed Koch of New York meeting with King Hussein of Jordan during a congressional tour of the Middle East. |
| Date: | 1985 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin leans across the table (left) during a discussion with Shimon Perez in Israel. Congressman Thomas Petri, also from ... |
| Date: | 1992 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey (standing) of Wisconsin shakes hands with former Soviet President Mikhal Gorbachev at a diplomatic luncheon in Washington. Also w... |
| Date: | 1994 |
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| Description: | Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services and former Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, unveils a bust of Congressman William H... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Congressman Morris Udall speaking to a Wisconsin audience during his campaign for the presidency. Udall finished a close second to Jimmy Carter in the Wisc... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Assemblyman David R. Obey and Patrick J. Lucey meeting with a group of students and their teacher, a nun, in the Wisconsin Assembly Parlor. Although undat... |
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