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Photograph

C.W.A. Pay Station

Date: 12 09 1933
Description: Men crowd around the newly opened Dane County C.W.A. Pay Station at the corner of West Dayton and North Carroll Streets to pick up paychecks.
Photograph

Sewer Shoveling

Date: 1935
Description: As part of a Wisconsin unemployment project, workmen dig a sewer trench by hand for the city of Spooner.
Drawing

Wisconsin Turns Its Back on the Soup Kitchen

Date: 02 1932
Description: Engraving by Charles Silver to mark the passage of Wisconsin's Unemployment Compensation Law, the first in the nation.

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