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| Date: | 11 11 1950 |
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| Description: | Dane County's three best voices for democracy are: John Holten, Deerfield, center, first-place winner; Lester Levine, Madison East, right, second-place win... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey talks on the telephone during a break in the deliberation of the House Budget Committee. Standing above Obey is his aide Scott Li... |
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| Description: | Fred Wertheimer, (fourth from the right) of Common Cause, delivers bags of citizen petitions to Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, (third from the left),... |
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| Description: | Portrait of French Indian men who made the trip to Washington via the Mississippi River to sign the 1854 Treaty ceding lands in both Minnesota and Wisconsi... |
| Date: | 10 10 2008 |
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| Description: | A woman is reading "Sarah Palin — A New Kind of Leader" at the entrance of the McCain rally. |
| Date: | 04 13 1954 |
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| Description: | The Dane County Republican Women's Club plans bridge parties to raise funds. Seated at a table, left to right are: Christine Beggs, Helen Karberg, and Fran... |
| Date: | 09 24 1965 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Dane County Planning Director Charles Montemayor at a table showing a map of his recently approved re-apportionment plan which would cut the nu... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Poster entitled, "Put the Polls in the Schools," with one photograph showing former location of voting booth and five photographs showing current voting co... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | Helen Notari and Helen Zawacki at a ten-week political skills workshop for seniors held at Neighborhood House. |
| Date: | 07 01 1960 |
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| Description: | A group of six smiling postal workers are listening as Floyd Switzky, center, reads the news that Congress voted to override President Eisenhower's veto of... |
| Date: | 03 23 1965 |
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| Description: | Members of Madison's Parent-Teacher Associations are attempting to win favor for the $6,450,000 school bond referendum by distributing booklets citing fact... |
| Date: | 08 08 1973 |
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| Description: | At a press conference northern representatives joined together to press their respective states to use newly appropriated funds to improve U.S. Highway 2 f... |
| Date: | 03 09 1933 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin students representing the U.W. Student Budget Committee present a petition to Senator Otto Mueller at the Wisconsin State Capitol. ... |
| Date: | 10 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Kohler being is presented with a 147-foot petition bearing signatures of 5,000 area residents seeking to ban the diversion of sewage from t... |
| Date: | 04 1987 |
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| Description: | Singer Harry Bellafonte, then the ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) testified on behalf of the fund before the House Appropriation... |
| Date: | 03 23 1983 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) speaking on behalf of Wisconsin dairy interests to the Dairy Subcommittee of the House Agriculture Committee al... |
| Date: | 06 1986 |
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| Description: | Jerry Zarecki (in the hat), president of the Portage County Farmers Union, presents Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey with one folder of petitions collec... |
| Date: | 10 1969 |
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| Description: | Individuals at the dedication of the Wausau Public Library. From the left: Kermit Goertz, president of the local library board; Henry C. Ahrnsbrak, chairma... |
| Date: | 11 20 1963 |
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| Description: | Sen. Edward Kennedy, left, chats with Betty Jane Martin, 6, who was representing Madison area mentally disabled children, as Gov. John Reynolds, right, lea... |
| Date: | 02 18 1948 |
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| Description: | Three University of Wisconsin co-eds sporting "outsize" beauty spots lampooning a fad that is sweeping the country for a stye show sponsored by the Univers... |
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