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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 116-123

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Description: Well-scrubbed proprieties, in no danger
except the possible over-minding of their own manners
or being out-voted by Activists
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 148-153

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Description: To some who want to leave
it would be dull
But to us who want to stay
the moment is surprising:
never lax
only turning out of nowhere lastin...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 154-160

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Description: Patience we learned and requiem
to rest the tense who die
For we forgot the brazen earth
in courtship of the sky
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 178-186

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Description: The fife and drum are not so innocent
the vulture's eye is on the dance
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 377-386

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Description: In the soft underside of war
The home point is to be home again with honor
without quite understanding why
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 599-606

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Description: All about, wherever a thought stirred,
are the memorabilia of its traces.

As it is spoken, so is it written;
as it is crucified, so is it grav...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 656-665

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Description: Let us be wrong in all our judgments

At that fine point We cannot quite believe
the steps between the superstitions
The feathers, the little e...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 727-734

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Description: That time of year.

Let's go watch the big wheels

The Saint, the King of Breakup with his Fool, parade the tarot Jack of Dice,
their drumme...
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Album Page with Violets

Date: 1901
Description: An album page decorated with hand-painted yellow violets features interior and exterior photographic views of the Frank B. Fargo house. At top left, a phot...
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Presidential Political Campaign Emphemera

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Description: A portrait of President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle.
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Presidental Political Campaign Ephemera

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Description: A presidential political campaign mailer of an award of appreciation from the Republican National Committee to Mr. James L. Baughman. On the left side is a...
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Presidental Political Campaign Ephemera

Date: 1984
Description: One presidential political campaign poster for Ronald Reagan and George Bush. One side displays numerous photographs of groups of people around a large ima...
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Presidental Political Campaign Ephemera

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Description: Two presidential political campaign bumper stickers for Jimmy Carter and Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, as well as a postcard with a portrait of Jimmy Carter sittin...

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