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| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Ulysses S. Grant loyalist demonstrates his strength in a display showing various sized potatoes with politicians names attached. The opposition is depicted... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Republican presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon speaks at an outdoor event. There is an airplane in the background. Patricia Nixon is shown seated behin... |
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| Description: | Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy speaks from a stage. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | A poster from the McKinley-Hobart campaign with the message "The Real Issue," showing William J. Bryant opening the U.S. Mint to the silver of the world, w... |
| Date: | 04 23 1860 |
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| Description: | Drawing of The National Democratic Convention in session at Charleston, South Carolina. |
| Date: | 02 15 2008 |
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| Description: | John McCain speaking, with an enormous American flag in the background. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | 1972 Campaign poster for Ed Muskie, American Democratic Senator and presidential hopeful. Close-up shot of his face, with the slogan, "Believe Muskie." |
| Date: | 1986 |
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| Description: | Cartoon depicting a very old Uncle Sam signing the Genocide Treaty while a man behind him says, "Better 37 years late than never, I suppose!". |
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| Description: | Side view of Gaylord Nelson speaking from a train caboose while on the campaign trail during a whistle stop tour. |
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| Description: | Ronald Reagan shakes hands with workers in front of a Manitowoc crane. |
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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: | Milwaukee Democratic mayoral candidate (and future mayor) Carl Zeidler speaking to an audience using a microphone. |
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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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| Description: | Harold Gauer, Carl Zeidler, Robert Bloch, and unidentified man (possibly Max Pollack). Both Gauer and Bloch are posing humorously in costumes. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A collection of clippings related to Carl Zeidler and his mayoral campaign, run by Harold Gauer and Robert Bloch. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | A campaign picture of Democrat Henry and Marge Reuss with family and pet dog on front porch. Taken for Ruess' Run for Mayor after his service in Europe. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | A campaign picture of Democrat Henry Reuss with his sleeves rolled up in a factory talking to a foreman while an African-American worker looks on. This was... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | A campaign picture of Democrat Henry Reuss wearing a suit, addressing constituents working at a grocery store. This was likely taken in 1952 while Reuss wa... |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of Herbert Battles Tanner who was running for Mayor of Kaukauna on the Republican ticket. Other candidates are listed below. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Reuss on his front porch. Photograph was to be used for campaign literature. Reuss had just returned from government service in Europe post World War II. |
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