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| Description: | Members of the Political Equality League in an early Ford automobile draped with bunting reading "Votes for Women." In the front seat is Mrs. B.C. Gudden. ... |
| Date: | 01 19 1968 |
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| Description: | Protesters, members of the Milwaukee Americans for Freedom, demonstrate against presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy and in favor of the Vietnam war. |
| Date: | 10 28 1964 |
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| Description: | Women representatives of Democrats for Goldwater from Central Wisconsin rally to support their candidate. |
| Date: | 08 27 1957 |
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| Description: | William Proxmire, his wife, Ellen (to Proxmire's right), and his supporters celebrate his victory in the special election to fill the Senate seat vacated u... |
| Date: | 08 28 1957 |
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| Description: | Jubilant Proxmire supporters dance in the streets in Milwaukee after Democrat William Proxmire won the special election to fill the seat left vacant by the... |
| Date: | 07 10 1954 |
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| Description: | Publicity photo at a pre-convention session of the Wisconsin State Democratic Party that includes William Proxmire and James E. Doyle, rival candidates for... |
| Date: | 06 12 1948 |
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| Description: | Chester Roberts, Milwaukee, campaigning for State Treasurer at the Republican State Convention. |
| Date: | 06 12 1948 |
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| Description: | Warren Smith, Milwaukee, campaigning for State Treasurer at the Republican State Convention. |
| Date: | 10 01 1932 |
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| Description: | Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigning for the presidency in Milwaukee in 1932. FDR is riding in a flag-draped open car and escorted by police on motorcycles. |
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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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| Description: | Polland at the Mid-Summer Festival on the Milwaukee lakefront, with the boys of Nick Ehr family in the foreground. This was just after the successful Zeidl... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | "Metcalf for Governor" is painted on a truck for the campaign. Other phrases: "Vote Socialist For Your Children's Sake," "Vote Socialist Save Civilization,... |
| Date: | 06 1912 |
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| Description: | Two women seated at desks with typewriters in an office. A calendar on the wall indicates it is June 1912. Another poster advertises speakers in support of... |
| Date: | 07 28 1989 |
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| Description: | Don Starky, of Napoleon, Ohio, looks over some of the buttons on display at the American Political Items Collectors Association Convention. Political poste... |
| Date: | 08 20 1958 |
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| Description: | Gaylord Nelson campaigning at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 10 10 1956 |
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| Description: | A young woman and an elderly woman are smiling at each other over a tray filled with cupcakes decorated with "IKE in '56" campaign buttons and tiny America... |
| Date: | 03 27 1957 |
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| Description: | Two U.W. Milwaukee coeds stopped at the city garage to help employees place "Be alert — VOTE!" bumper stickers on city vehicles. Miss Nancy Breske is apply... |
| Date: | 08 20 1958 |
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| Description: | A straw hatted fairgoer from Oshkosh clutched Republican leaflets as he tried to straighten out State Senator Gaylord Nelson on world affairs. Nelson, Demo... |
| Date: | 01 05 1968 |
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| Description: | A man and woman get ready for the arrival of Mrs. George W. Romney at the Romney for President headquarters. Several campaign posters and banners are sprea... |
| Date: | 08 14 1968 |
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| Description: | A group of children are holding up hand-made signs, demonstrating for "Snoopy for President." Several children are wearing Peanuts t-shirts and sweatshirts... |
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