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Filter: Creator Name of Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972
Filter: Subject of social services
| Date: | 08 17 1936 |
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| Description: | Neils Ruud, 824 E. Dayton Street, receiving the first unemployment compensation check issued in Wisconsin from Voyta Wrabetz, chairman of the state industr... |
| Date: | 03 19 1944 |
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| Description: | USO-Travelers Aid award ceremony featuring Katheryn Heringer, medical social worker at the Bureau of Handicapped Children and Orthopedic Hospital; Lieut. J... |
| Date: | 08 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Albert (Nima) Quentmeyer took in two young girls from a broken home after raising six sons, who have since grown up. Some of her sons are serving in t... |
| Date: | 03 14 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Sydney S. Miller, manager of the Madison field office of the United States Social Security Administration. |
| Date: | 06 28 1945 |
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| Description: | C.D. Lehman, superintendent of the State Public School, Sparta, receiving a certificate of service from Herman A. Kloppmann, board president, with A.W. Bay... |
| Date: | 06 28 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Thomas Doran, Director of the City of Madison Relief / Welfare Department. |
| Date: | 12 16 1948 |
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| Description: | Recently elected officers of the Community Welfare Council. Seated, left to right: Mrs. Thomas (Rosamond) Doran, 4117 Yuma Drive, representing the Catholic... |
| Date: | 10 23 1949 |
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| Description: | The Reverend Otto J. Wilke (left), president of the Oakwood Lutheran Home Association, is shown greeting Mike Anderson, the first resident of the Oakwood L... |
| Date: | 10 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Three of the first staff members of the Oakwood Lutheran Home on Mineral Point Road stand side by side. Left to right: Mrs. A. Staehling, matron; Mrs. O.D.... |
| Date: | 01 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Large crowd that filled the circuit courtroom of the Dane County Court House at a public hearing on proposed sites for the county home for the chronically ... |
| Date: | 02 22 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior side view of Dane Co. Home For The Aged, showing porches and a dangerous fire escape. The newspaper headline calls the building a "fire trap." |
| Date: | 02 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Metal fire escape at rear of the Dane County Home For The Aged. Newspaper calls building a "fire trap." |
| Date: | 02 22 1950 |
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| Description: | Three rows of beds on the third floor of the Dane County Home For The Aged. The room had only one exit leading to a wooden porch and a wooden fire escape. ... |
| Date: | 03 21 1950 |
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| Description: | Children in Foster Care. Henry and Ella Ellestad with "Sister," a 4 month old baby, their seventh foster child. |
| Date: | 09 27 1950 |
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| Description: | View of the newly-equipped preschool room at the Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 09 27 1950 |
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| Description: | Staff members of the Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue, pose around a table for a group portrait. Seated, left to right: Louise Schleicher, as... |
| Date: | 10 16 1950 |
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| Description: | L.E. Rolefson, director of the Lutheran Welfare Society, seated, shows the Reverend E.J. Van Handel, director of the Catholic Welfare Bureau, and two Unite... |
| Date: | 10 19 1950 |
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| Description: | Dane County Veterans Service Office, located in the basement of the Dane County Courthouse at 207 West Main Steet, is shown as an "inadequate, shabby, crow... |
| Date: | 10 08 1950 |
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| Description: | Sydney S. Miller, manager of the Madison Social Security Office, shares a 1950 government-issued booklet explaining a program to employers of household wor... |
| Date: | 12 12 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Leslie (Luella) Morris and Allen Zoeller check for children's names in the "Holiday Exchange," a filing system which serves as a clearing house for th... |
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