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| Date: | 02 1908 |
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| 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:... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Running hard for re-election after having served less than a full term, Congressman David R. Obey greets card-playing seniors. |
| Date: | 11 03 1992 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 11 1984 |
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| Description: | "Supporters of Dwight York watch election returns on the TV screen." |
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| Description: | Members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America employed at the Jones company in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, celebrate after an election victory. |
| 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: | 1968 |
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| Description: | During his campaign for re-election to the Senate, Senator Gaylord Nelson revived an old campaign tradition by campaigning from the back of a train. At th... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A crowd outdoors at a freedom vote, a mock election designed to include African-Americans who were unable to register to vote. |
| Date: | 10 1991 |
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| Description: | Richard Arrington, Jr. (at the microphone), the first black to be elected mayor of Birmingham, speaks to a re-election rally. Among the supporters applaud... |
| Date: | 04 1985 |
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| Description: | "Twenty-six-year-old Martin P. Koll, who was elected Village President at the spring election, posed on Theresa's main street." |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Governor Albert G. Schmedeman stands next to a large campaign sign for his re-election as governor outdoors at the Wisconsin State Capitol. The sign reads:... |
| Date: | 11 07 1960 |
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| Description: | Then-Vice President Richard Nixon addresses a crowd at the Madison Municipal Airport while campaigning for the 1960 Presidential election. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Women workers at the Swift Company plant pass up literature passed out by AFL representatives before a National Labor Relations Board election. The Packing... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the crowds, standing in the street, on a green space, and in front of buildings. A wagon in the foreground holds a sign that reads: "Get o... |
| Date: | 2012 |
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| Description: | Former United States Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, seated and smiling for the camera at a 2012 Election Rally. The rally was held at the La Crosse Co... |
| Date: | 08 13 1952 |
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| Description: | Len Schmitt, former Progressive Party legislator from Merrill, led the Republican opposition to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's bid for re-election. Schmitt a... |
| Date: | 12 07 1946 |
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| Description: | Striking Allis Chalmbers workers and CIO supporters on parade in 1946. In later years it was common suggested that the Communist-dominated Milwaukee CIO h... |
| Date: | 1988 |
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| Description: | Former Wisconsin Governor Anthony Earl stands outdoors near an airplane with a group of supporters. He made an unsuccessful run for the United States Senat... |
| Date: | 04 03 1968 |
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| Description: | Many people are standing or sitting in a room with "Walther for Mayor" signs on the wall. Some are looking at a television in the foreground. Caption reads... |
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