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| Date: | 05 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Governor Oscar Rennebohm, seated at his desk in the foreground, signs a bill into law ending segregation in the Wisconsin National Guard because of race, c... |
| Date: | 02 07 1950 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Governor Oscar Rennebohm signing a proclamation officially announcing the observance of Nation Brotherhood Week. With him is Wisconsin Supreme Co... |
| Date: | 08 15 1950 |
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| Description: | Governor Oscar Rennebohm, seated, signs a proclamation that officially opens National Home Week in Wisconsin. With him at the signing, standing left to rig... |
| Date: | 06 07 1951 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Kohler signs into law the bill providing that the governor and the legislature shall review all public expenditures, including money from r... |
| Date: | 10 29 1954 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Kohler signs a proclamation making November 11, 1954 the first Veterans Day in Wisconsin. Looking on, left to right, are: Francis Lorbecki ... |
| Date: | 08 30 1956 |
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| Description: | Three members of Beautiful Madison, Inc. give a letter to Mayor Ivan Nestingen (seated at desk) requesting a city ordinance against littering in Madison st... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Several men and women watch as Governor Patrick Lucey signs the Equal Rights Amendment. Lloyd A. Barbee (left), Marlin Schneider, two unidentified people, ... |
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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: | 05 1937 |
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| Description: | In the U.S. Supreme Court Room, after hearing the Court hand down its decisions upholding the constitutionality of the old age insurance and unemployment i... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Maurine Mulliner was the first Executive Secretary to the Social Security Board, beginning in 1936. This photograph is inscribed "To Wilbur [Cohen] with af... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | John F. Kennedy, seated, surrounded by a number of men, including Vice-President Lyndon Baines Johnson, center, standing, and Wilbur Cohen, Assistant Secre... |
| Date: | 02 01 1983 |
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| Description: | Governor Tony Earl at the signing of the executive order creating the Wisconsin Women’s Council. At the end of the remarks he invites women from the legisl... |
| Date: | 07 14 1965 |
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| Description: | President Johnson gives a warm handshake to AFL-CIO Social Security Dir. Nelson H. Cruikshank after a White House ceremony in which he signed into law the ... |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., sits at his desk signing a document. Four men stand behind him, all wearing suits. The Wisconsin state flag hangs on the wa... |
| Date: | 04 29 1965 |
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| Description: | An Assembly bill to establish a full-time Equal Opportunity Commission got 5 1/2 hours of pro and con testimony at a public hearing before the Assembly Jud... |
| Date: | 08 1973 |
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| Description: | Governor Pat Lucey signing Chapter 115 ensuring public education for children with disabilities as parents, children and others look on. Midge Miller stand... |
| Date: | 08 1973 |
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| Description: | Governor Pat Lucey visiting with children in the Governor's Office after signing Chapter 115 ensuring public education for children with disabilities. |
| Date: | 03 12 2011 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large crowd gathered on the Capitol Square to protest the passage of the Act 10 bill and greet the return of the 14 Senate Democrats who... |
| Date: | 06 03 1953 |
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| Description: | Five men standing behind Gov. Walter Kohler watching him sign a document in his office. One of the men might be Paul Thielan from Brookfield, Wisconsin. |
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