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| Date: | 10 29 1959 |
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| Description: | Flyer for a rally "The Right To Vote" "The Fight To Vote" sponsored by the Federation of Negro Civil Service Organizations, Inc. Speakers include Jackie Ro... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of a women's hand touching a ballot machine with names of candidates from the 1956 Wisconsin election. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Raising their right hands, an unidentified group of union members voting at the American Federation of Labor (AFL) convention. |
| Date: | 11 04 1958 |
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| Description: | Gaylord Nelson, the Democratic candidate for governor, emerging from the voting booth. |
| Date: | 08 13 1952 |
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| Description: | For the camera, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy shows how he voted in the 1952 Republican Primary. McCarthy handily defeated his opponent Len Schmitt. |
| Date: | 11 04 1952 |
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| Description: | Thomas Fairchild casts his vote in the 1952 general election. Fairchild lost his bid for the U.S. Senate seat held by Joseph R. McCarthy. With him are hi... |
| 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: | 02 20 1950 |
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| Description: | Three members of the League of Women Voters check the voter poll lists to see who has not yet registered to vote. Left to right: Mrs. Arthur P. (Julia) Mil... |
| Date: | 02 20 1950 |
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| Description: | League of Women Voters members Elizabeth Antonius (left), 221 South Owen Drive, and Josephine Jenkins, 2805 Sylvan Avenue, study a map in preparation for a... |
| Date: | 02 20 1950 |
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| Description: | League of Women Voters member Mrs. Frederick (Priscilla) Greeky interviews Leon A. Smith, superintendent of Madison's Water Department, as part of the leag... |
| Date: | 02 20 1950 |
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| Description: | As part of a League of a Women Voters house to house canvas to encourage voting, Mrs. Horace (Marion) Wilkie (left), chair of the Westmorland Unit, is show... |
| Date: | 08 05 1950 |
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| Description: | Acting Madison City Manager George Forster signs a proclamation designating the week of August 14 as Voters' Registration week. Watching are, left to righ... |
| Date: | 08 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Volunteers who will staff five special voters registration centers during "Register and Vote week" are shown being sworn in by City Clerk Al W. Bareis at l... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | For a 1950 election, the United Packinghouse Workers Union sponsored a free bus to transport people to the voter registration site. |
| Date: | 05 08 1952 |
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| Description: | Madison City Clerk, A. W. Bareis, right, is swearing in "Miss 21," Eunice Mehtala, left, who is representing the Madison area's newest eligible voters. At... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Draft of a letter from the Racine Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People regarding voter registration and organized votin... |
| Date: | 09 21 1954 |
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| Description: | Mr. William Kaeser stands in front of a large fireplace at his home at 3467 Circle Close, one of the houses on the League of Women Voters' House Tour. Mrs.... |
| Date: | 09 21 1954 |
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| Description: | Eleanor Riley Grant sitting in the living room of the Frank Riley house, 2925 Oakridge Avenue, one of the homes on the benefit tour for the League of Women... |
| Date: | 02 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Stan Lesar, laboratory manager at the American Scientific Laboratories and an immigrant from Yugoslavia, looks forward to voting for the first time in the ... |
| Date: | 02 27 1957 |
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| Description: | The photo caption states in full: "Gov. Vernon W. Thomson had an audience of six daylight saving time advocates when he signed into law the bill setting up... |
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