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| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Governor Gaylord Nelson signing the bill which created Menominee County as the state's 72nd county. The new county consisted of those portions of Shawano a... |
| Date: | 04 22 1975 |
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| Description: | Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton signing the documents that restored tribal status to the Menominee Indians. Watching the ceremony are Senator Gaylo... |
| Date: | 06 21 1947 |
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| Description: | Assembly Speaker, Donald McDowell, casting a straw vote for U.S. President. George Greene, editor of Waupun Leader News, supervising the vote. |
| 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: | 05 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Retiring mail carrier, Mike Cawley, accepting an envelope containing a token of appreciation from Myrtle L. Hansen, clerk of circuit court at the Dane Coun... |
| Date: | 11 23 1948 |
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| Description: | This ceremony at Truax Field signaled the start of construction of the 120-unit apartment project for war veterans by the Madison Housing Authority. Henry ... |
| Date: | 11 24 1948 |
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| Description: | Dane County Board Chairman Paul A. Robinson, left, and Madison City Manager Leonard G. Howell, right, signing contracts which officially join Madison and D... |
| Date: | 12 10 1943 |
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| Description: | City Clerk Alf W. Bareis (right) swears in F. Halsey Kraege as mayor of Madison. He was elected by the common council to succeed James R. Law who resigned ... |
| Date: | 12 10 1943 |
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| Description: | Former mayor James R. Law hands the gavel to his successor, F. Halsey Kraege, who was elected by the common council to fill the unexpired term for Law who ... |
| Date: | 01 27 1949 |
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| Description: | Dane County Clerk of Circuit Court Myrtle Hansen in her office with some of the court orders from 1948 which permitted about 50 Madison residents to change... |
| Date: | 05 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Miss Jeanne Gibbons (left), a technician with the Madison Board of Health, explaining the workings of the mobile X-ray unit to members of the Lakewood Scho... |
| Date: | 07 09 1949 |
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| Description: | Portrait of District Attorney Robert W. Arthur as he appeared in Dane County circuit court to argue against dismissal of one of his lobbying cases. |
| Date: | 07 29 1949 |
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| Description: | Governor Rennebohm signing an appropriation bill for $1,000,000 that will fund 94 added positions at the state's mental institutions. Watching him sign are... |
| Date: | 08 04 1949 |
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| Description: | Looking over Governor Nelson Dewey's account books at the governor's desk in his office at Stonefield are Raymond Sivesind, state supervisor of historic si... |
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| Description: | Journalists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak interviewing Dick Cheney while he was secretary of defense. |
| Date: | 02 2003 |
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| Description: | Tommy G. Thompson, former governor of Wisconsin, standing in his office as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services with journalist Robert ... |
| Date: | 11 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Madison City Manager Howell (right) signs a proclamation declaring the following week to be Optimist Week. Looking on, from the Madison Optimist Chapter, (... |
| 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: | 03 01 1950 |
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| Description: | Russell W. Klitzman raises his right hand as he is sworn in as the first director of the Dane County Traffic Police by Dane County Clerk Keith Schwartz. H... |
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