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| Date: | 10 1942 |
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| Description: | Governor Julius P. Heil (1876-1949) speaks to Shawano High School students and others during his gubernatorial re-election campaign. He arrived during the ... |
| Date: | 11 06 1946 |
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| Description: | Joseph R. McCarthy in the home of friends Urban and Margery Van Susteren of Little Chute, on the morning after his election to the U.S. Senate. Van Sustere... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wisconsin Governor Julius P. Heil, and other officials touring the Allis-Chalmers plant. |
| Date: | 09 28 1942 |
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| Description: | Highway billboard advertising Wisconsin cheese for the Department of Agriculture and Markets. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigarette tax division, using a sledge hammer to smash illegal slot machines. |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A scene from the Greendale Civilian Defense Rally. Mothers and children sit at a picnic table outside of the "Bendfelt House of Fine Ice Cream" stand opera... |
| Date: | 07 1946 |
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| Description: | Dwight D. Eisenhower, fishing with his brothers on Wisconsin Lake, proudly exhibit Muskies and one Northern Pike. |
| Date: | 12 1946 |
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| Description: | Members of the United Automobile Workers union, Local 75, line up outside the local's headquarters, 308 E. Center Street, to vote on delegates to the union... |
| Date: | 08 23 1946 |
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| Description: | Crew of the railroad car ferry "City of Milwaukee" demonstrating for a 40-hour week and overtime pay. The "City of Milwaukee" ferried Grand Trunk Western ... |
| Date: | 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Edmund V. Bobrowicz campaigning for Congress in Wisconsin's Fourth Congressional District. Bobrowicz, a worker at Greenebaum's Tannery and organizer for ... |
| Date: | 04 12 1941 |
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| Description: | A view from the corner of State and Gorham Streets toward the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 03 1946 |
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| Description: | CIO members joined Lincoln Brigade veterans in a demonstration on Wisconsin Avenue last week to demand the breaking off of U.S. diplomatic relations with F... |
| Date: | 08 12 1948 |
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| Description: | One of the many demonstrations organized by the People's Progressive Party in Milwaukee to fight the ever-rising cost of living. The campaign includes the ... |
| Date: | 09 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The 6th Ward Contingent represented a community on the march. Black men, women and children from the CIO and AF of L, from small business, brought a messa... |
| Date: | 07 19 1946 |
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| Description: | Young demonstrators at the CIO's "Don't Buy a Depression" rally. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Three men at the University of Wisconsin, with tent and sign that reads "People of Madison! Vets in tent need rooms to rent". |
| 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: | 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: | 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... |
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