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| Sixty years ago, Dwight D. Eisenhower recording the first television “spots” by a presidential candidate |
| Date: | 07 1952 |
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| Description: | The Democratic convention, with Harry S. Truman and Adlai Stevenson standing at a podium. |
| Date: | 08 29 1896 |
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| Description: | Cover of Harper's Weekly, with a pro-William McKinley Presidential cartoon depicting McKinley as a soldier in 1861 and William Jennings Bryan as an ... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th President of the United States (1877-1881). Born in Delaware, Ohio on October 4, 1822, he died on January 17, 1893 in Fremont, O... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | La Follette political cartoon. La Follette and presidential candidates Root, Shaw, Taft, and Fairbanks at a fish pond. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A damaged Republican Party ticket for the Racine County Wisconsin slate headed by Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin. Also of note on the ticket is Congre... |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | An Unconditional Union ticket printed in Indiana in 1864 in support of the candidacy of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. The support for Lincoln's prose... |
| 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: | 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: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A damaged Republican Party ticket for the Racine County Wisconsin slate headed by Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin. Also of note on the ticket is Congre... |
| Date: | 09 17 1864 |
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| Description: | A political cartoon of President Abraham Lincoln holding a tiny General George McClellan in the palm of his hand. McClellan is carrying a spade. Lincoln is... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Political poster promoting Calvin Coolidge and Charles Dawes for president and vice-president. On the left side are two flags, "Old Glory" and "The Red Fla... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | A President Nixon re-election poster with approximately 360 signatures of athletes (appearing in alphabetical order) on it. At the top of the poster is the... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | A Republican campaign placard that could be hung by a red, white and blue ribbon threaded through eyelets at the top. Portraits of Theodore Roosevelt (cand... |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Bandana featuring music score for campaign song "We Want Teddy," used at a Milwaukee campaign rally for Theodore Roosevelt, 1912. (Museum object #1970.204) |
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| Description: | A cartoon line drawing in black of Ronald Reagan in profile, as a caricature, with the text, in red that reads: "I don't want Carter's job America needs a ... |
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| Description: | Framed assortment of presidential campaign buttons. A majority of them support Franklin D. Roosevelt throughout his four terms. A few others support Harry ... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Framed assortment of political campaign buttons for Richard Nixon and running mate Spiro Agnew, and Hubert Humphrey and running mate Edmund Muskie. Several... |
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