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| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Staff of the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Library. Several are identified including Ellen Hoffman, Irene Hocks, Hazel Basem, Grace Adams, and Martha Blo... |
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| Description: | Sherman M. Booth, anti-slavery editor, shown seated reading newspaper. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Robert Schilling, leader of the People's Party of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A head and shoulders portrait of William Dempster Hoard (1836-1918). |
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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: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A messenger hands materials to Lawrence Larson, in the Senate Chamber of the Wisconsin State Capitol. From left to right are Jerry Czarnecki, Hanford Wesle... |
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| Description: | Clerk E.J. Walden, Secretary John S. Donald and Assistant Secretary L.B. Nagler pose with three wooden boxes full of election ballots in the Secretary of S... |
| Date: | 09 20 1891 |
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| Description: | Political cartoon from the Washington Post. It refers to the role of Jeremiah M. Rusk, the Secretary of Agriculture from Wisconsin, in negotiating i... |
| 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: | 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: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey, with his back to the camera, chats with two of his constituents at the Clark County Fair. |
| 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: | 06 1986 |
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| Description: | Jerry Zarecki (in the hat), president of the Portage County Farmers Union, presents Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey with one folder of petitions collec... |
| 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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