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| Date: | 09 04 1958 |
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| Description: | Dedication of Wisconsin's first expressway, a seven-mile stretch of Interstate Highway I-94 in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. Presiding at the ribbon-cutting ... |
| Date: | 11 1924 |
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| Description: | Robert M. La Follette, Sr. speaking to a large crowd from the Wisconsin State Capitol steps. This speech marked the end of his independent campaign for the... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Vice President Richard M. Nixon waves his cowboy hat from the seat of an International 300 utility tractor. |
| Date: | 11 05 1930 |
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| Description: | Governor-elect Philip F. La Follette reading a telegram at the La Follette campaign headquarters. |
| Date: | 11 05 1930 |
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| Description: | Governor elect Philip La Follette sitting and reading a telegram at La Follette headquarters. |
| Date: | 10 09 1928 |
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| Description: | George A. Nelson, Milltown, former assemblyman and president of the Wisconsin Union of the American Society of Equity, and John E. Cashman, Denmark, State ... |
| Date: | 10 09 1928 |
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| Description: | George A. Nelson, Milltown, former assemblyman and president of the Wisconsin Union of the American Society of Equity, and John E. Cashman, Denmark, State ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | 75th anniversary celebration of the birth of the Republican Party at Ripon. Governor Walter J. Kohler, Sr., stands on the podium in front of the Little Whi... |
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| Description: | Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin, and Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana, on the set of the Senate Recording Studio in Washington, D.C. From his first ... |
| Date: | 04 27 1976 |
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| Description: | The set of the fundraising auction of Channel 10, Milwaukee's public television station. Senator William Proxmire is standing to the left of the closed B B... |
| 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: | 06 26 1944 |
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| Description: | Two Wisconsin delegates to Republican Party National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. William Campbell, Oshkosh, left, and Arthur Prehn, Wausau, right. |
| Date: | 10 23 1960 |
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| Description: | Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy at the Madison airport with state Democratic leaders. To Kennedy's left are Governor Gaylord Nelson and state Democr... |
| Date: | 12 11 1951 |
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| Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy greets admirers at a Republican Party dinner that honored him. |
| Date: | 06 21 1947 |
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| Description: | Assembly Speaker, Donald McDowell, casting a straw vote for U.S. President. George Greene, editor of Waupun Leader News, supervising the vote. |
| Date: | 07 21 1952 |
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| Description: | National Democratic Convention delegates Herman Jessen and Henry Reuss stand on the convention floor. Reuss had been actively campaigning for months for t... |
| Date: | 11 24 1953 |
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| Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and Francis P. Carr at the first public session of the investigation of espionage at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Carr read into ... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Assembly members seated around a table at a committee meeting. |
| Date: | 2005 |
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| Description: | Tommy Thompson, Secretary of Health & Human Services (2001-2005) being interviewed while on a visit to La Crosse. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A political cartoon during the presidential campaign depicting W.J. Bryan repainting a sign with the word "imperialism". |
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