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Vel Phillips

Date: 08 11 1961
Description: Vel Phillips wearing a striped dress and a tag that reads "We're here for Wisconsin Human Rights Legislation." Phillips was taking part in a sit-in in supp...
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Secretary of State Vel Phillips

Date: 1978
Description: Vel Phillips sitting behind the large Wisconsin Secretary of State desk. An unidentified man is standing next to her.
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Wisconsin Secretary of State Vel Phillips

Date: 02 22 1979
Description: View across desk filled with papers towards Vel Phillips sitting while serving as Wisconsin's Secretary of State.
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Mrs. Phillips, Secretary of W.C.T.U.

Date: 08 24 1934
Description: Portrait of Margaret Phillips, secretary of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, seamstress, writer, and a Madison activist.
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The Phillips Family

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Description: The members of the Phillips family stand on the lawn outside of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Armory (Red Gym or Old Red).
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Dreyfus Administration

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Description: Governor Lee Sherman Dreyfus (left) and the elected officers of his term: Lt. Governor Russell Olson, Secretary of State Vel Phillips, Treasurer Charles Sm...
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Madison City Council

Date: 1971
Description: Group portrait of the Madison City Council. Names, (l to r), Joseph Thompson, Paul Soglin, Dennis McGilligan, Susan Kay Phillips, and Eugene Parks.
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Vel Phillips Receiving an Honorary Poem

Date: 01 03 1978
Description: Liesl Blockstein of the Wisconsin Women's Political Caucus presenting guest-of honor, Vel Phillips, with an honorary poem at a reception at the L'Etoile Re...
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Washington School Orthopedic Department

Date: 03 31 1949
Description: Mrs. Georgia Phillips leads boys of the primary classes in group singing at the orthopedic department at Washington School, 545 West Dayton Street.
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West Side Business Men's Association Benefit Party

Date: 10 11 1949
Description: West Side Business Men Auxiliary Ticket Committee. Seated at left, Mrs. E. G. (Marie) Phillips and Mrs. R.A. (LaVerne) Hart on the right. Standing, left t...
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Christ Presbyterian Church Missionary Tea

Date: 07 16 1954
Description: Group portrait of Florence Koehler, president of the church women's association, Leora Phillips, and Miriam Stroud. They are posing by the front door at 73...
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Wisconsin Society for Ornithology Reception

Date: 04 30 1954
Description: Mrs. Harriet Larson and Mrs. Albert Phillips are looking over drawings of birds at the reception of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology at the Memorial U...
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Madison Stamp Club Meeting

Date: 02 18 1954
Description: Club treasurer, Charles P. Ingold, sitting among a crowd at the Madison Stamp Club meeting at the City YMCA. Behind him, Edgar Phillips is showing a philat...
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Education in Other Lands

Date: 12 04 1954
Description: A group of foreign educators present a program, "Education in Other Lands" for a meeting of Delta Kappa Gamma. Standing left to right: Cecilia Phillips of ...
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Madison Council of Parents and Teachers School of Instruction

Date: 09 19 1956
Description: Left to right: Mrs. Marden A. (Leora) Phillips, 222 Walnut Street, chairman of high school services for the Wisconsin Congress of Parents and Teachers; Mrs...
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Grace Episcopal Church Gypsy Group

Date: 04 18 1933
Description: Grace Episcopal Church bazaar group dressed as gypsies. People sitting are: Lillian Markee as fortune teller foretelling the future of Ruth Luetscher. Stan...
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University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week

Date: 01 31 1949
Description: Three rural Wisconsin women meet the governor's wife, Mary Rennebohm, at a reception given by the University president and his wife for the University of W...
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Wisconsin High School Reunion

Date: 07 02 1959
Description: Five local graduates of Wisconsin High School visit at the class of 1942 reunion at the Cuba Club in Madison. From left are Robert C. Pooley, Jean Hoard, L...
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Fitchburg Farm Bureau

Date: 01 18 1947
Description: The Fitchburg Farm Bureau council, meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Blaney, Route 3, presenting a check to the American Cancer society field army, an...
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Wisconsin Union Theater Centennial Play, "River Boat"

Date: 03 02 1949
Description: The Wisconsin Players presented "River Boat," an original centennial drama written by Robert Gard of Madison and Dore Reich of Milwaukee at the Memorial Un...

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