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Poster

Register

Date: 1944
Description: Poster of a man's arm with his shirt sleeve pushed up. He is holding a yellow card in his fingers with the text, "The Ballot is a power in your hands. Use ...
Poster

Vote For Steffes

Date: 1944
Description: Campaign poster instructing voters how to write in Herbert J. Steffes for the office of Municipal Judge of Milwaukee County. He was appointed to serve the ...
Photograph

Vote Republican

Date: 10 26 1958
Description: Four men have a conversation in front of a banner that reads, "Vote Republican." The second man from the left is Warren P. Knowles, Lt. Governor.
Photograph

Get Out the Vote for William Proxmire

Date: 11 05 1956
Description: Telephone callers started a new phase of the "get out the vote" campaign Monday at Proxmire for Governor headquarters, 135 W. Wells Street. More than 40 te...
Photograph

Frame 19: "We Want to Vote"

Date: 1964
Description: Two men holding protest signs are walking down a sidewalk past a white police officer who is holding a bullhorn at a Greenwood Freedom Day. In the backgrou...
Photograph

Frame 56: Going into Voting Booth

Date: 1964
Description: Two African-American men wait outside voting booths. In the foreground two women sit at a table. Signs above the booths read: [...] Here For Business [...]...
Photograph

Frame 58: Woman Casting Freedom Vote

Date: 1964
Description: Two women sit behind a table at a Freedom Vote, a mock election designed to include African-Americans who were unable to register to vote and would be a tr...
Photograph

Frame 59: Freedom Vote

Date: 1964
Description: A crowd outdoors at a freedom vote, a mock election designed to include African-Americans who were unable to register to vote.
Photograph

Frame 71: Outdoor Demonstration

Date: 1964
Description: A long line of protesters standing on a sidewalk hold signs calling for voting rights and civil rights. One sign reads, "We Are Not Allowed to Vote".
Poster

Voters Welcome

Date: 
Description: A poster with an image of armed law enforcement officers surrounding a building during an election or voter education meeting. The text reads, "Voters Welc...
Photograph

Frame 76: Woman Holding Papers

Date: 1964
Description: A seated woman holds civil rights literature.
Photograph

Frame 78: Line Up with Signs

Date: 1964
Description: A group of young people on a sidewalk protesting with signs in support of the MFDP.
Photograph

Mathilde Franziska Anneke

Date: 
Description: Ninth plate ferrotype/tintype. Waist-up portrait of Mathilde Franziska Anneke, seated with her hands on her lap. Hand coloring on cheeks. Mrs. Anneke was c...
Photograph

Voting Rights Protesters

Date: 1964
Description: View towards sidewalk of a line of demonstrators carrying signs during a Freedom Summer civil rights demonstration. A man walking along the sidewalk holds ...
Photograph

Child in a Voting Booth

Date: 1958
Description: Mother and small son in voting booth, with the child squatting on the floor and peeking out beneath the curtain.
Photograph

Tallying Ballots

Date: 04 1992
Description: John Bodden, Evageline Koll, and Ralph Ruecker help tally ballots.
Photograph

Voting at Theresa Town Hall

Date: 04 1994
Description: Hedy Dobbe and her father, Hans Rahjes, prepare to vote at the Theresa Town Hall.
Photograph

GOP Campaign Starts in Ripon at the Little White Schoolhouse

Date: 08 08 1960
Description: Philip Kuehn, left, Republican candidate for governor, chats in Ripon with Harry Dunbar, who will be 92 years old by the time he votes this fall. Dunbar, a...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

African American Men Going To Vote

Date: 1963
Description: Nathaniel Smith and Ernest Morgan enter the St. Francisville courthouse to vote. Three white men are sitting on a porch railing outside of the courthouse.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Freedom Vote Candidates

Date: 10 28 1964
Description: Four small black-and-white portraits of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party candidates: Fannie Lou Hamer, Annie Devine, Aaron Henry, and Victoria Gray...

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