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| Date: | 05 21 1952 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Kohler, (left) chats with Chancellor Leopold Figl, Austrian Chancellor, during the latter's visit to Madison. Dr. Figl, on a 16-day visit t... |
| Date: | 08 02 1952 |
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| Description: | Democratic candidates for office and their wives were honor guests at a tea given for residents of the Highlands-Mendota Beach school district. Pictured, ... |
| Date: | 05 14 1950 |
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| Description: | President Harry S. Truman in Madison for the opening and dedication of the Filene House, 1617 Sherman Avenue. He is sitting in the car and waving his hat d... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Stereograph portrait of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., taken during his senior year at the University of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Holiday card from Palmer F. Daugs, alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1936, candidate for U.S. Senate in 1954 and candidate for Wi... |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Composite photograph of the members of the Wisconsin State Assembly. |
| Date: | 01 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Arlene Weidenkopf, private secretary to Wisconsin Attorney General Vernon W. Thomson. |
| Date: | 06 13 1961 |
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| Description: | Large group of protesters in the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda with many carrying signs in favor of Civil Rights for African-Americans. One man holds a s... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Waist-up oval portrait of Frederick W. Horn (1815-1893). A Democrat, he was a Representative in the Wisconsin Assembly from Cedarburg. He was a lawyer and ... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Senator Robert La Follette (center) poses during his campaign for president with two of his lieutenants. Governor John J. Blain is on the left and Herman E... |
| Date: | 09 05 1954 |
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| Description: | State Senator Warren Knowles, (R-New Richmond), Republican-endorsed candidate for lieutenant governor (right), crouches to greet Tom and Bill Jasper, two y... |
| Date: | 09 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Senator Karl Mundt, (S.D., Rep.) who is wearing a suit and hat, and putting a cigar up to his mouth. Mundt came to Madison to address a session of the Univ... |
| Date: | 01 03 1955 |
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| Description: | Attorney General Vernon Thomson, of Richland Center, is shown with his right hand raised while taking his oath of office, administered by a judge in a robe... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Jon P. Wilcox (far left), cucumber grower and state legislator, crossing the grape boycott picket line at a Kroger store. In 1969, Grape boycotts in Wiscon... |
| Date: | 03 02 1956 |
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| Description: | Papers containing President Eisenhower's consent to be a candidate in the Wisconsin presidential primary and the President's certified list of delegate can... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Campaign poster in red, white and blue that reads: "Wisconsin needs a Governor. Elect! Loomis." Includes a head and shoulders portrait of Orland Steen Loom... |
| 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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| Description: | Assemblyman David Obey and his wife Joan in his office in the Wisconsin Capitol. Joan Obey was an important factor in Obey's political success and when his... |
| Date: | 06 17 1956 |
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| Description: | Rajkumari Amrit Kaur, India's minister of welfare and health, is shown in a speedboat on Lake Mendota with Dean John Z. Bowers, of the University of Wiscon... |
| Date: | 01 1985 |
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| Description: | Inauguration ceremony in which Dwight York was sworn into the Assembly. |
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