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| Date: | 05 02 1978 |
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| Description: | Governor Martin Schreiber is shaking hands with Rick Phelps of the Youth Policy and Law Center as he is handing Phelps a pen used to sign AB 874, the Child... |
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| Description: | Two political campaign door flyers for John Kerry and running mate John Edwards. The one on the left includes a portrait of John Kerry standing behind a po... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with two cartoons under the headline. The cartoon on the left is titled: "Snowed Under," and displays a truck labeled American Indu$trie$ stalled in... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with two cartoon panels. In the panel on the left, a man in a military uniform, labeled "General Business," is forced to dance by a hand firing a gu... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster includes a cartoon panel showing a scale. On one side, which is labeled: "Price to Consumer," are weights labeled: "Supply, Demand, Quality, and Was... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring a cartoon panel depicting a mule, labeled: "Industry," which is being harassed by five horseflies, who are labeled: "Unfair Laws, Strife, ... |
| Date: | 06 03 1953 |
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| Description: | Five men standing behind Gov. Walter Kohler watching him sign a document in his office. One of the men might be Paul Thielan from Brookfield, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster with text inside red and blue borders. It is a copy of an executive order by Julius C. Gunter, Governor of Colorado. Text reads, in part: "It is you... |
| Date: | 01 12 1955 |
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| Description: | The newly elected Assembly speaker, Mark Catlin, Jr. (right), signing the official vote register as Robert H. Boyson (left), voting machine operator, is lo... |
| Date: | 04 27 1964 |
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| Description: | Twenty-seven members of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE) are linking arms and singing "We Shall Overcome" in the balcony of the Wisconsin Assembly Ch... |
| Date: | 03 1849 |
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| Description: | Section 1 of Assembly Bill 122 for the year 1849 which established equal suffrage for African-American men pending passage of a state-wide referendum vote.... |
| Date: | 03 1849 |
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| Description: | Section 2 of Assembly Bill 122 for the year 1849 which established equal suffrage for African-American men pending passage of a state-wide referendum vote.... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire posing with a poster detailing money saving bills he has introduced and how the savings can be used. |
| Date: | 03 1849 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Wisconsin Assembly Bill 122 of 1849 which established equal suffrage for African-American men pending passage of a state-wide referendum vote. ... |
| Date: | 05 09 1958 |
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| Description: | Governor Vernon Thompson signs an official proclamation declaring May as national hearing month. Sitting on his knee is Jean Monteith, 4, of Richland Cente... |
| Date: | 01 14 1959 |
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| Description: | Lieutenant Governor Philleo Nash gavels the Wisconsin State Senate to order for the 1959 session. He is a Democrat from Wisconsin Rapids. |
| Date: | 01 22 1959 |
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| Description: | Photograph of Gov. Gaylord Nelson delivering a speech at a podium asking the state's lawmakers to help create a Wisconsin Economic Resources Commission to ... |
| Date: | 06 1919 |
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| Description: | Former Wisconsin State Senator David G. James, Republican from Richland Center (1908-1912) and the father of suffragist Ada James, on his trip to Washingto... |
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| Description: | Handmade sign depicting Governor Walker chopping down a tree with an ax. On Walker's pants is the text: "Tea Party Republicans." On the tree is the text: "... |
| Date: | 06 1919 |
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| Description: | Photostat copy of a receipt issued by J.A. Tonner, Chief of the Bureau of Rolls and Library at the Department of State by direction of the Acting Secretary... |
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