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| Date: | 12 1979 |
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| Description: | Members of the Wisconsin congressional delegation at the lighting of the U.S. Capitol Christmas tree, with Speaker of the House Tip O'Neal. Left to right, ... |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Republican Congressman Thomas Petri and State Senator Walter John Chilsen pose in front of the national christmas tree. The tree came from Northe... |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin Congressional delegation meets during a meal. Left to right they are: John Byrnes, William Proxmire, Gaylord Nelson, Melvin Laird, and Clemen... |
| Date: | 12 1954 |
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| Description: | The 1954 Christmas card of Jeanne and Joseph R. McCarthy, mailed at about the time he was censured by the Senate. Handwritten on the inside the card says,... |
| Date: | 01 20 1953 |
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| Description: | Joseph R. McCarthy arriving at the inaugural ceremonies for President Dwight D. Eisenhower. It was unusual for McCarthy, who was very casual about his att... |
| Date: | 09 27 1962 |
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| Description: | Senators Wiley (Wisconsin), Robertson (Virginia), and Jordan (North Carolina) posing with a round of blue cheese. |
| Date: | 02 04 1954 |
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| Description: | Senator Alexander Wiley and President Eisenhower. |
| Date: | 07 21 1958 |
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| Description: | Senator Alexander Wiley shaking hands with Madame Chiang Kai-shek. |
| Date: | 12 21 1993 |
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| Description: | Les Aspin (second from the right) served as Secretary of Defense during the administration of President Clinton. He is seen here at the Pentagon holiday pa... |
| Date: | 02 1970 |
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| Description: | Congressman George Mahon of Texas, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, welcomes newly-appointed Congressman David R. Obey to the committee and ... |
| Date: | 01 20 1969 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of special guests leaving the platform after the inauguration of Richard Nixon. In the center can be seen Wisconsin Congressman Melvin Laird,... |
| Date: | 03 05 1891 |
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| Description: | Front cover and inside of menu for a dinner honoring U.S. Senator John C. Spooner when he was Chairman of the Committee on Claims, with an oval photograph ... |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (left) and Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl at a fundraiser for Obey. Jim Chapman is the man between them. |
| Date: | 12 14 1946 |
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| Description: | Menu, mounted on board, for a dinner of the Gridiron Club. Features a background menu image (by Clifford Berryman?) of a victorious elephant in boxing shor... |
| Date: | 12 09 1950 |
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| Description: | Gridiron Club menu, mounted on board, with a cartoon by Jim (James Thomas) Berryman of club president Tom Stokes in suit and tie, chef's toque, pleated apr... |
| Date: | 12 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Gridiron Club menu, mounted on board, with a "Wel-Fair Deal" cartoon by Jim (James Thomas) Berryman with President Truman playing cards and saying to a man... |
| Date: | 05 21 1949 |
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| Description: | Menu, mounted on board, for the spring dinner of the Gridiron Club, with a cartoon by (Clifford K.?) Berryman of "Dr. Truman's Utopia Elixir: Relief for Ev... |
| Date: | 04 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Menu souvenir, mounted on board, of a "They Went Then Till They Came to the Delectable Mountains" cartoon by Clifford K. Berryman for the spring dinner of ... |
| Date: | 05 1947 |
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| Description: | Cartoon, mounted on board, by Clifford K. Berryman of candidates wearing spring dresses and hats or headbands, and dancing around a maypole, with the Washi... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic sharing a toast with Senator Theodore Green, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. |
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