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| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Newly-elected members of the Wisconsin Assembly signing in. Facing the camera left to right are: E. William Proxmire (D-Madison), Hermann Eisner (D-Cross P... |
| Date: | 01 01 1951 |
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| Description: | Walter J. Kohler, Jr. is sitting on an oversized sofa in the Governor's office prior to his inauguration ceremony. With him are Wisconsin's other constitut... |
| Date: | 01 09 1951 |
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| Description: | Swearing-in ceremony of 6 of 17 new Wisconsin State Senators. Left to right: Henry W. Meier (D-Milwaukee), Arthur A. Lenroot (R-Superior), Frank E. Panzer... |
| Date: | 01 09 1951 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Senators signing-in in the Senate Chambers of the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 07 21 1952 |
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| Description: | Carl Thompson, Stoughton, national committeeman, and Gaylord Nelson, then a state senator and the chair of the Wisconsin delegation, conferring on the floo... |
| Date: | 01 11 1951 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., addresses a joint session of the Wisconsin State Legislature. |
| Date: | 01 18 1953 |
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| Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt interviewed by the press prior to her Sunday afternoon talk in the Memorial Union Theater. |
| Date: | 01 19 1953 |
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| Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt interviewed by the press prior to her Sunday afternoon talk in the Memorial Union Theater. |
| Date: | 06 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin during the Army-McCarthy hearings, with committee counsel Roy Cohn next to McCarthy and Republican Senator Ralph Fl... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | A political cartoon in which a small Harry Truman wearing an oversized shoe is requesting more power of a man representing Congress. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Glenn Davis in a necktie with an autograph to Warren Knowles, which reads, "For my friend Warren Knowles, to whom the people of Wisconsin, and ... |
| Date: | 03 1958 |
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| Description: | Charles Hayes (center), director of the United Packinghouse Workers of America District 1 and a national leader in UPWA's efforts to organize and support t... |
| 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: | 1959 |
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| Description: | President Eisenhower greets the children of reporter Merriman Smith at his farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The photograph is undated, but as Christian He... |
| Date: | 07 07 1952 |
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| Description: | Harlan Kelly, Sauk County district attorney, left, and Harvey Higley, Marinette, leader of the 24 Badger Taft delegates, right, talk over strategy at Wisco... |
| Date: | 07 07 1952 |
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| Description: | Former Governor Philip F. La Follette, a Warren alternate, left, chats with Henry Ringling, Baraboo, who will be named Wisconsin's new national GOP committ... |
| Date: | 09 25 1952 |
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| Description: | Ohio Republican Senator Robert A. Taft and his convention floor manager, Madison's Thomas E. Coleman, are shown at Truax municipal airport standing by the ... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Gertrude Lamb, newly appointed president of Dane County Women's Republican Club. |
| Date: | 02 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Dignitaries gathered for the start of the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Invitational Bonspiel at the Madison Curling Club. Standing, left ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Meeting of members of the 26th of July Movement in front of a building in Oriente Province during the Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro is in the foreground a... |
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