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| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Dwight D. Eisenhower and his brothers on a fishing trip proudly exhibiting muskies and northern pike on a Wisconsin lake. From left are Dwight, Edgar, Milt... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Arthur Altmeyer speaking at the Inter-American Conference on Social Security, which took place in Buenes Aires. Eva Peron is seated to his left, wearing he... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Richard M. Nixon and his family during the 1952 presidential election campaign when he was the running mate in Dwight D. Eisenhower's suc... |
| Date: | 10 1957 |
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| Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright talking to Madison Mayor, Ivan Nestingen and City Planner, Walter Johnson. |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John Wise), Wisconsin's first woman Secretary of State, arranges a floral centerpiece on a table in front of a floral pattern of wallpa... |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John Wise), Wisconsin's first woman Secretary of State, posing in the kitchen cooking. |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John Wise), Wisconsin's first woman Secretary of State, at her desk in the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 01 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin's new Secretary of State, Glenn M. Wise, pours coffee for her husband, John E. Wise, Sr., who is an electrical engineer with the state Industrial... |
| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Governor Gaylord Nelson signing the bill which created Menominee County as the state's 72nd county. The new county consisted of those portions of Shawano a... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Robert Warren, then the District Attorney of Brown County, tries out a breathalizer machine. With him are Glenn Cunningham and Ray Bayley, officers of th... |
| Date: | 02 20 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Robert J. (Joan) Francis of 833 Miami Pass, member of League of Women Voters, listens to City Clerk A.W. Bareis as he explains how to use a voting mac... |
| Date: | 03 01 1950 |
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| Description: | Russell W. Klitzman raises his right hand as he is sworn in as the first director of the Dane County Traffic Police by Dane County Clerk Keith Schwartz. H... |
| Date: | 05 05 1950 |
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| Description: | A gavel inscribed with his name was presented to Harrison L. Garner Thursday afternoon by the board of directors of the Bank of Madison. The presentation ... |
| Date: | 05 04 1950 |
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| Description: | Lucille Colt, a bank clerk and member of the WAC medical corps in World War II, presents an inscribed gavel to Harrison L. Garner, a board member who was r... |
| Date: | 05 07 1950 |
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| Description: | Speakers stand near the front of the partially finished new building during the cornerstone laying ceremony at Trinity Lutheran Church, 1904 Winnebago Stre... |
| Date: | 05 08 1950 |
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| Description: | The cornerstone for the million-dollar four-story addition to the Madison Vocational School was laid at the corner of North Carroll and West Dayton Streets... |
| Date: | 05 14 1950 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Francis Garrity, Jefferson County district attorney and president of the Wisconsin District Attorneys Association. He is being urged to run for... |
| Date: | 06 01 1950 |
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| Description: | City Manager Leonard G. Howell turns the first shovelful of dirt for the first of eleven houses to be built by Madison builders under the Good American Hom... |
| Date: | 06 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of members of the Madison Common (City) Council and speakers at a hearing of the Madison Housing Authority's (MHA) proposed public housing pr... |
| Date: | 07 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Edward J. B. Schubring (left), president of Madison General hospital association, and City Manager Leonard G. Howell wield the shovels at the groundbreakin... |
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