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| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Capitol Assembly Chamber, including the mural of Edwin Blashfield. The mural depicts Wisconsin's past, present and future and set the tone ... |
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| Description: | Sherman M. Booth, anti-slavery editor, shown seated reading newspaper. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Carrie Chapman Catt, activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement. |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Elisha W. Keyes (1828-1910) a prominent Madison attorney who was appointed Madison postmaster by Abraham Lincoln in 1861. From ... |
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| Description: | Portrait of French Indian men who made the trip to Washington via the Mississippi River to sign the 1854 Treaty ceding lands in both Minnesota and Wisconsi... |
| Date: | 02 18 1948 |
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| Description: | Three University of Wisconsin co-eds sporting "outsize" beauty spots lampooning a fad that is sweeping the country for a stye show sponsored by the Univers... |
| Date: | 09 21 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd of voters and five curtained voting machines at Ward 10. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 40 signing a "Joe Must Go" petition to recall Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. |
| Date: | 04 13 1954 |
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| Description: | The Dane County Republican Women's Club plans bridge parties to raise funds. Seated at a table, left to right are: Christine Beggs, Helen Karberg, and Fran... |
| Date: | 10 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Kohler being is presented with a 147-foot petition bearing signatures of 5,000 area residents seeking to ban the diversion of sewage from t... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin confers with his aide, Scott Lilly, during a meeting of the House Budget Committee. |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey talks on the telephone during a break in the deliberation of the House Budget Committee. Standing above Obey is his aide Scott Li... |
| Date: | 04 1987 |
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| Description: | Singer Harry Bellafonte, then the ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) testified on behalf of the fund before the House Appropriation... |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (second from the right) confers with Scott Lilly, a top policy advisor, during a hearing of the House Budget Committee. |
| Date: | 03 23 1983 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) speaking on behalf of Wisconsin dairy interests to the Dairy Subcommittee of the House Agriculture Committee al... |
| Date: | 08 08 1973 |
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| Description: | At a press conference northern representatives joined together to press their respective states to use newly appropriated funds to improve U.S. Highway 2 f... |
| Date: | 1988 |
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| Description: | Texas political activist and broadcaster James Hightower at a political event for Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey. |
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| Description: | Fred Wertheimer, (fourth from the right) of Common Cause, delivers bags of citizen petitions to Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, (third from the left),... |
| Date: | 10 1969 |
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| Description: | Individuals at the dedication of the Wausau Public Library. From the left: Kermit Goertz, president of the local library board; Henry C. Ahrnsbrak, chairma... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Helen Notari and Helen Zawacki at a ten-week political skills workshop for seniors held at Neighborhood House. |
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