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New Police Chief Candidate

Date: 09 30 1930
Description: New police chief candidate, William H. McCormick, sitting behind a desk.
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Wendell Willkie with Governor and Mrs. Goodland

Date: 03 19 1944
Description: Wendell Willkie with the Governor and Mrs. Walter Goodland and their dog in the Governor's residence during Willkie's 1944 Presidential campaign visit to W...
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Wendell Willkie with Wisconsin Delegates

Date: 11 1943
Description: Republican Presidential candidate Wendell Willkie with three of his delegates, Vernon Thomson (R-Richland Center), George Skogmo (R-Milwaukee), and William...
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Mr. & Mrs. Wendell Willkie with Governor & Mrs. Goodland

Date: 03 19 1944
Description: Governor Walter Goodland, Mrs. Willkie, Madge Goodland, and Wendell Willkie chatting in the governor's residence during the 1944 campaign.
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Wendell Willkie and W.D. McIntyre

Date: 03 1944
Description: Republican Presidential candidate Wendell Willkie with W.D. McIntyre (R-Eau Claire), during Willkie's 1944 campaign.
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Wendell Willkie Conferring with Vernon Thomson

Date: 03 18 1944
Description: Wendell Willkie conferring with Assembly Speaker Vernon Thomson (R-Richland Center). Thomson is a candidate for delegate-at-large on the Willkie slate.
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Dane County Taft Supporters

Date: 03 04 1952
Description: Thirty five chairmen of the Dane County Taft Committee met at Kennedy Manor to map strategy for the Taft presidential campaign. Area leaders shown in this ...
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Gauer and Bloch: Reaction to Ruess's Defeat

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Description: Gauer and Bloch reacting to Ruess's campaign defeat. Gauer worked full time on the campaign, but Bloch was an occasional help. According to Gauer, Ruess wa...
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John Doolittle as a Rumor Monger

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Description: For Smiles magazine. Playing a political rumor monger, in character clothes.
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John Doolittle: "Ward Worker"

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Description: This character of a "ward worker" photograph was taken for Smiles magazine. On the wall behind the man a small American flag is propped on the apart...
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Robert Bloch Posing as a Sheriff

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Description: Bloch playing the character part of a candidate for sheriff to illustrate a possible book on political "types."
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Carl Zeidler at Kitchen Table

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Description: Milwaukee mayoral candidate (and future mayor) Carl Zeidler in election photograph sitting at kitchen table with a woman and two young children. There is a...
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Mayor Carl Zeidler

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Description: Newly elected mayor, Carl Zeidler, with the "braintrust," of Harold Gauer and Robert Bloch, that put him there. The "boys" are congratulating him on his vi...
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Harold Gauer and Robert Bloch in Office

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Description: Political "masterminds" at work during the Zeidler campaign in rented offices.
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Tom Amlie at Typewriter

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Description: Photograph of Amlie working at a desk. The photograph was taken for his race with Smith in the Racine district.
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John Bohn

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Description: Taken as a possible campaign photograph, this is a picture of Mayor John Bohn, who replaced Carl Zeidler when he left for World War II. Bohn was then reele...
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Tom Amlie

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Description: Campaign photograph for Tom Amlie at typewriter.
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Max Pollack, Robert Bloch, Harold Gauer, and Milt Polland

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Description: Group portrait of the total team working on the election campaign of Carl Zeidler. Max's nickname was "Max the Axe." Milt Polland always wanted to be photo...
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Milt Polland and Max Pollack

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Description: Humorous costume photograph of the two major players in the Carl Zeidler campaign.
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Fred Clausen

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Description: Campaign photograph of Clausen in his office at his implement factory.

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