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| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Harry S. Truman in the oval office standing behind his desk. |
| Date: | 11 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Women campaign workers call voters to support the Labor Political League and vote for candidates sympathetic to Labor issues. |
| Date: | 05 03 1939 |
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| Description: | Governor Julius P. Heil sitting at his desk signing a bill, with four men looking on from behind. |
| Date: | 03 18 1931 |
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| Description: | Norman Clapp, Appleton High School student, sitting in the governor's chair, represents Wisconsin in the around-the-world telephone conversation held in co... |
| Date: | 11 05 1930 |
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| Description: | Governor-elect Philip F. La Follette reading a telegram at the La Follette campaign headquarters. |
| Date: | 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Wendell Willkie visits with Aaron Martin Brayton, retired editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, on his bed in a local hospital room during Willkie'... |
| Date: | 02 1958 |
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| Description: | Elected to the Senate in a special election in September 1957, to fill the unexpired term of Senator Joe McCarthy, William Proxmire was forced to begin a c... |
| 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: | 07 22 1971 |
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| Description: | President Richard Nixon speaking on the telephone in the Oval Office of the White House, while Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird is waiting to report on hi... |
| Date: | 12 27 1947 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a young man assumed to be an employee of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, taken inside the Wisconsin state capitol building. |
| Date: | 01 09 1948 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Julius Kelly, newly elected County Treasurer by the Dane County Board. |
| Date: | 11 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Madison City Manager Leonard G. Howell signing a proclamation designating Nov. 7-13 as Optimist Week in Madison. Looking on, left to right, are: Charles Th... |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the total team working on the election campaign of Carl Zeidler. Max's nickname was "Max the Axe." Milt Polland always wanted to be photo... |
| Date: | 11 1960 |
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| Description: | A volunteer phone bank of member of the United Packinghouse Workers locals 88 and 21: Ruby Espionga, Gayle Hill, Beatrice Holland, and Ann Wilson. |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | SNCC leader Bob Moses. Although this image is not fully captioned, it is believed to be the voter registration office in Jackson, Mississippi. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a parade of reporters in open cars following President Eisenhower on a rural road in Iowa. The President is standing in an open car at the rig... |
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| Description: | President Harry Truman meets a packed room full of reporters. Merriman Smith, the "dean of the White House correspondents and the donor of this image," can... |
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| Description: | Merriman Smith of UPI, the "dean of the White House correspondents," with President Lyndon Johnson, in the White House. Smith enjoyed a close relationship ... |
| Date: | 06 13 1952 |
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| Description: | Dane County marriage license clerk Mercedes Dufour, (left), issues a license to Lucille A. Roth and Amos M. Skogen for their leap year wedding at the East ... |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | J.A. "Doc" Hines, veterinarian and politician, on the phone at his office. Wording on cup reads: "Old Fart." |
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