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Lee Dreyfus

Date: 1983
Description: Portrait painting of Lee Sherman Dreyfus, Wisconsin's 40th governor.
Photograph

Naturalization

Date: 09 18 1984
Description: Jennie Youn Haeng Seider, 4, of Milwaukee, used her father Jeffrey Seider's back to display her new certificate of naturalization.
Photograph

Electronic Voltametric Apparatus

Date: 08 27 1982
Description: Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. provides an opportunity for a university engineering student to have hands-on experience and instruction from a company re...
Photograph

Christmas Returns

Date: 12 26 1982
Description: A Target retail store is flooded with customers returning Christmas gifts.
Photograph

Winter Mail Delivery

Date: 02 15 1987
Description: A woman mail carrier pushes her cart with a full mailbag along a sidewalk edged by snowy lawns.
Photograph

Walter Mondale

Date: 10 24 1984
Description: Walter Mondale campaigns for president in 1984 during his failed run against Ronald Reagan.
Photograph

Governor Thompson Boosts Amtrak

Date: 10 30 1989
Description: Tommy G. Thompson, governor of Wisconsin and an enthusiastic member of the Amtrak governing board, salutes the expansion of Hiawatha service between Chicag...
Photograph

Amtrak Celebration

Date: 10 30 1989
Description: Wisconsin Governor Tommy G. Thompson, a member of the Amtrak governing board, joins an unidentified Amtrak official as the train breaks a ceremonial banner...
Photograph

Louis Menk, International Harvester Executive

Date: 1980
Description: Louis W. Menk, International Harvester executive. Menk was CEO of the company May-December of 1982.
Photograph

Donald Lennox, International Harvester Executive

Date: 1982
Description: Don Lennox, CEO of International Harvester, 1982-1987.
Photograph

Harold Washington and Anthony Earl

Date: 1984
Description: Mayor Harold Washington and Governor Anthony Earl.
Photograph

Manny Chulew in His Kenosha Store

Date: 12 11 1980
Description: Holocaust survivor Manny Chulew in his Kenosha store, Barr Furniture.
Photograph

Rabbi Mayer Relles at his Manitowoc Home

Date: 12 28 1980
Description: Holocaust survivor Rabbi Mayer Relles at his home.
Photograph

Don Eisenberg in Court

Date: 06 16 1980
Description: Don Eisenberg, defense attorney, in the court room during the Barbara Hoffman murder trial.
Print

Merry Christmas

Date: 1989
Description: Photographic holiday card from Tommy Thompson and family, governor of Wisconsin, 1987-2001. The card is a color image of Mr. Thompson, his wife, daughters,...
Photograph

Visit to Clam Lake

Date: 12 15 1981
Description: Project ELF activist Jerry Holter (left) and John Lavine, head of the Lavine Newspaper Groups based in Chippewa Falls, outside the Clam Lake facilities of ...
Photograph

John Lavine

Date: 12 15 1981
Description: John A. Lavine of Chippewa Falls, head of the Lavine Newspaper Group and publisher of several Wisconsin newspapers.
Photograph

Touring Project ELF

Date: 12 15 1981
Description: Captain Charles Biele (right) and John A. Lavine (next to Biele), Wisconsin newspaper publisher, before Lavine toured the controversial U.S. Navy facility ...
Photograph

Christmas Tree from Wisconsin

Date: 1983
Description: Congressman David R. Obey (standing below the C) greets a delegation from Wisconsin that accompanied the official Capitol Christmas Tree cut in the Chequam...
Photograph

Capitol Christmas Tree

Date: 1983
Description: Elevated view of crowd gathered in front of the U.S. Capitol for the lighting of the Capitol Christmas Tree. The tree was cut in the Chequamegon National F...

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