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| Date: | 08 17 1936 |
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| Description: | Neils Ruud, 824 E. Dayton Street, receiving the first unemployment compensation check issued in Wisconsin from Voyta Wrabetz, chairman of the state industr... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | World War I poster promoting individuals to garden and can vegetables for the war effort. Produced by the National War Garden Commission. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Wisconsin State Capitol. The Belmont Hotel is behind the capitol on the left, and beyond is Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Pen sketch of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., by Willy Pogany in 1924. The original bears La Follette's signature. |
| Date: | 06 09 1954 |
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| Description: | McCarthy-Army hearings. Left to right: G. David Schine, Joseph R. McCarthy, and Roy Cohn. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | An engraved head and shoulders portrait of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., during the period when he was the governor of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
| Date: | 04 1907 |
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| Description: | Robert M. La Follette, Sr., addressing an audience of 12,000 in Los Angeles. The photograph is on the cover of a pamphlet entitled "La Follette On The Firi... |
| Date: | 06 13 1944 |
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| Description: | Three female employees of Rennebohm Drugstore #2, 204 State Street, wearing white uniforms, caps and neckties with slogans urging people to buy war bonds:... |
| Date: | 10 28 1947 |
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| Description: | Several members of the screenwriters and directors known as the "Hollywood Ten," together with members of their families at a demonstration before their im... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Overhead view of large crowd of demonstrators being beaten back by police at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during the Dow Chemical demonstration on c... |
| Date: | 03 03 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a suffrage parade, with a large crowd looking on. The sign on the horse-drawn wagon reads: "We Demand an Amendment to the Constitution of ... |
| Date: | 08 08 1906 |
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| Description: | Dr. Charles R. McCarthy and staff at the Legislative Reference Library. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait of suffragist Carrie Lane Chapman Catt. |
| Date: | 02 1916 |
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| Description: | Round and oval-framed portraits of nine newly elected officers of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. The officers are Mrs. Frank M. Roessing... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the Mendota Beach School group in front of a school building. |
| 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: | 01 28 1932 |
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| Description: | Governor Philip La Follette signing Wisconsin's pioneer unemployment compensation law. From left to right are Henry Ohl, Elizabeth Brandeis, Paul A. Raushe... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Arthur Altmeyer standing at a blackboard speaking at the Salzburg seminar in American studies. Arthur J. Altmeyer (1891–1972) was the United States Commi... |
| Date: | 07 30 1965 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Arthur Altmeyer poses outdoors with John Engell (last name?), Paul Douglas, and Oscar Ewing at the signing of the Medicare Bill." Arthur... |
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