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JCC Safety Contest

Date: 04 29 1951
Description: Top prize winners in the JCC safety slogan contest posing with a new bicycle and contest officials. Left to right: Harry Tobias, chairman of the contest; S...
Poster

"Don't Waste Food While Others Starve!"

Date: 1917
Description: United States Food Administration poster depicting a woman holding a crying infant on her shoulder with one arm, and her other arm around a young girl who ...
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Madison Recreation Department Staff

Date: 01 10 1952
Description: Group portrait of staff members of the Madison Recreation Department, left to right: Standing, Hermine Sauthoff, Clarence Schwengel, Glenn "Pat" Holmes and...
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Draft Protest Meeting

Date: 05 08 1952
Description: Adolph Maasen (left), the leader of a group of state farmers claiming prejudice against farmers by the State Selective Service, observing Colonel Bentley C...
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Draft Protest Meeting

Date: 05 08 1952
Description: Elevated view of some of the nearly 70 farmers and their wives from nine Wisconsin counties gathered in the state assembly chamber to hear a discussion of ...
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Rebecca Chalmers Barton

Date: 07 08 1953
Description: Portrait of Rebecca Chalmers Barton, Director of the Wisconsin Governor's Commission on Human Rights, seated at her desk.
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George Watson

Date: 02 1953
Description: George Watson, Superintendent of Public Instruction in Wisconsin, seated at his desk wearing a necktie and holding a pencil.
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Walter Simon with his Shot Gun

Date: 11 08 1955
Description: Walter Simon holds his shot gun to show its wooden parts that he crafted himself. According to his obituary, published on October 18, 1964, he was the Dir...
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Legal Counsel before WERC Hearing

Date: 1967
Description: Jesus Salas, left, is leader of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), Wisconsin's migrant farm workers' union. In the center, legal counsel David Loeffler and o...
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Bancroft Obreros Unidos Strikers

Date: 08 24 1967
Description: Elevated view of 150 workers rallying as a part of Obreros Unidos (United Workers) protest against poor working conditions of migrant farm workers in the S...
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Attorney General Bowling Team

Date: 1927
Description: The members of the Attorney General Team of the State House Bowling League. They were the Champions of the 1926-27 Season. The members were; A.F. Stofen, C...
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Girl Scouts Mailing Photographs on Labor Day

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Description: Girl Scouts of Washington, D.C. celebrate Labor Day by mailing out photographs of the uniform pledge cards of the U.S. Food Administration.
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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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Annual Farm and Home Week

Date: 02 05 1957
Description: Fond du Lac County agricultural agent George Massey looking over an exhibit of early household equipment at the annual University of Wisconsin's Farm and H...
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New Brundage Home

Date: 1935
Description: Brundage family in their new home after resettlement with assistance of United States Resettlement Administration. From left to right: Walter, Marvin (4), ...
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Car Stuck in Mud

Date: 1935
Description: View from rear left of a car belonging to a United States Resettlement Administration field worker stuck in a muddy road. A man stands at the front of the ...
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Digging Car Out of Mud

Date: 05 17 1935
Description: Will Morrow (in a hat) and J.T. Samson, United States Resettlement Administration field workers, using shovels and boards to extract a vehicle from a muddy...
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Pushing Car Out of Mud

Date: 1935
Description: A United States Resettlement Administration field worker pushing his car out of a muddy patch of road.
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Scenery at Necedah

Date: 1935
Description: View looking north across the Highway 21 bridge at Necedah Lake. A man, likely a Resettlement Administration worker, stands holding a pipe in the foregroun...
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Three Men Posing Around a Stump

Date: 1935
Description: Three men, likely United States Resettlement Administration workers, pose around a stump.

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