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| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Invitation to the Presidential Inaugural Ball that celebrated the re-election of Abraham Lincoln, together with Andrew Johnson, who succeeded to the Presid... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | 1860 Presidential Democratic ticket headed by John C. Breckenridge (it should be spelled Breckinridge), and the vice-president, Joseph Lane, that was distr... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Engraved invitation to the reception and promenade concert held in celebration of the election of President James A. Garfield (left) and Vice President Che... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Campaign poster with black and white head shot of Lyndon Baines Johnson that reads "LBJ For The USA". |
| Date: | 01 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster encouraging young people to register to vote. Includes a picture of a barefoot man with a guitar and blue jeans (a college student, hippie, musician... |
| Date: | 09 22 1964 |
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| Description: | Three young men displaying some campaign materials outside their own GOP headquarters in a garage at 8608 W. Meinecke Avenue in Wauwatosa. They are, from l... |
| Date: | 07 08 1876 |
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| Description: | Political cartoon for presidential campaign. The cartoon depicts the artist rejoicing over the nomination of Hayes and the declaration of republican princi... |
| Date: | 11 1948 |
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| Description: | President Harry S. Truman holds up the newspaper which has the headline that mistakenly reports "Dewey Defeats Truman". |
| Date: | 09 1924 |
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| Description: | Several men and children pose outside the La Follette-Wheeler-Blaine-Schneider campaign headquarters before the primary election. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Campaign poster for Victor Berger (1860-1929), U.S. Senatorial campaign. The poster was used by Berger, Socialist candidate for the U.S. Senate in the camp... |
| Date: | 10 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster encouraging young people to vote in the 1972 presidential election. Text reads, "Maybe they gave you the right to vote because they thought you'd ne... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Poster encouraging young people to vote in the 1972 presidential election. Text reads, "Maybe they gave you the right to vote because they thought you'd ne... |
| Date: | 09 1972 |
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| Description: | Campaign poster for 1972 Democratic Presidential nominee George McGovern, who lost the election to Richard Nixon. Features a large screen printed brown pic... |
| Date: | 09 1972 |
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| Description: | Campaign poster supporting 1972 Democratic presidential ticket McGovern and Shriver for. Features the slogan, "Come Home America!" Includes a peace sign de... |
| Date: | 04 14 1949 |
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| Description: | Bob Verberkmoes, an East High School student, who was elected the fourth East Side Youth Mayor in the annual election held at East High School. |
| Date: | 04 19 1949 |
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| Description: | Ernst J. Deppe of Marshall sits behind a desk covered in papers and is holding a gavel. He was narrowly elected Dane County board chairman, 42 to 40, over ... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting Judy Greenspan for school board. Her platform includes: passage of the high school bill of rights, an end to discriminatory practices agai... |
| Date: | 10 26 1949 |
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| Description: | Candidates for class officers at West high school standing and sitting around a desk in a classroom. They are, from left to right: Dave Moran, Peg Arnold, ... |
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| Description: | Politician Carl Ziedler, who ran for mayor of Milwaukee. Gauer is quoted in his book Keeping Track of What Happened, "When Hollywood came out with p... |
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| Description: | A young girl on a city sidewalk with a St. Bernard that's wearing a sandwich board reading "Carl Zeidler For Mayor." |
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