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Election Board

Date: 09 1925
Description: The Clear Lake election board inside the town hall.
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Television Broadcast of Election Returns

Date: 11 02 1948
Description: WENR in Chicago broadcasts the first live national television presidential election returns when Truman upset Dewey.
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Men with Election Ballot Boxes

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Description: Clerk E.J. Walden, Secretary John S. Donald and Assistant Secretary L.B. Nagler pose with three wooden boxes full of election ballots in the Secretary of S...
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Voters at National Election

Date: 10 02 1948
Description: Madison citizens in Washington School gymnasium, waiting to vote at the national election.
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Charles E. Broughton Delivering Election Returns

Date: 11 08 1932
Description: Charles E. Broughton delivering election returns over WHBL.
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Village Election

Date: 1974
Description: "Gordon Neitzel keeps tabs on a village election."
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Election Night at the Wisconsin State Journal

Date: 11 03 1964
Description: The night staff of the Wisconsin State Journal on election night.
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Election Party

Date: 11 08 1932
Description: Election party at St. Andrew's church. Shows people playing a card game at a table, and onlookers standing nearby.
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Local-Option Election

Date: 02 1908
Description: A view of the crowds at an election. The crowd, mostly women, stand in front of the post office. A sign says "God Made the Water." Printed below the image:...
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Phillip La Follette and Family on Election Night

Date: 11 04 1930
Description: Phillip La Follette and family on Election night, November 4, 1930, at the La Follette home.
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Spring Election 1961

Date: 04 04 1961
Description: Long lines of voters gather at Midvale School for the spring 1961 election. Poll workers are sitting at two tables to register the voters.
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Recount

Date: 04 12 1960
Description: In a recount that lasted almost four hours, the tide turned in favor of Alderman John Budzien, who apparently had lost last Tuesday's election to Robert A....
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Election Party

Date: 11 08 1932
Description: Election party at St. Andrew's Church. Shown are (left to right): Joyce Brown, Mrs. John Gillette, Clara Wiedner, Robert Holland, Mack Murdock, Ted Brewer,...
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NLRB Election

Date: 08 1951
Description: Organizers for the United Packinghouse Workers of America hand out leaflets concerning an upcoming National Labor Relations Board election to be held at th...
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Election Night

Date: 11 08 1960
Description: The election night staff of the Wisconsin State Journal on works its way Tuesday night through the vote returns.
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University of Wisconsin Foreign Students Observe Election

Date: 11 02 1948
Description: A large group of University of Wisconsin foreign students question Madison city clerk, A.W. Bareis, after observing a national election at Washington Schoo...
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Presidential Election

Date: 11 03 1992
Description: "Poll workers wait for voters in the November election. For president results were: George Bush 169 votes, Bill Clinton 133 votes, Ross Perot 127 votes, an...
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Portrait of Philip F. La Follette

Date: 11 04 1930
Description: Portrait of a smiling Philip F. La Follette, the younger son of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., on election night.
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Governor Candidate Filing Papers

Date: 05 26 1944
Description: Delbert J. Kenny, Republican from West Bend, filing nomination papers for governor with Gaige E. Roberts, Chief of the Wisconsin Election and Records Divis...
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Celebration

Date: 11 04 1970
Description: Democrat Patrick J. Lucey (center) celebrating his election as governor of Wisconsin with Martin Schreiber (left), his running mate, and Senator William Pr...

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