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| Description: | Unemployed men on a street with the word "Unemployment" collaged above. Part of a series of Highlander collages from the film center. |
| Date: | 02 1932 |
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| Description: | Engraving by Charles Silver to mark the passage of Wisconsin's Unemployment Compensation Law, the first in the nation. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View of the atrium of Milwaukee's City Hall with a crowd of people gathered to register for unemployment compensation. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of five children walking in a field behind what appears to be tenement housing. Wooden fire escapes are attached to the rear of the buildings... |
| Date: | 09 01 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of John R. Wrage, general campaign manager of the 1954 United Givers Campaign, as well as personnel director and assistant vice-president at Gisho... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Boy dressed in work clothes and covered with soot from working in a mine. He wears a hat with a rudimentary lantern on top. |
| Date: | 09 2013 |
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| Description: | The bronze and plaster sculpture by George Segal depiciting five men waiting in a bread line at a door. The sculpture is on the rooftop garden of the Madis... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an illustration of a small child, naked except for socks and shoes, standing in front of the Torch of Liberty. Poster text reads: "Save Yo... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster depicts a small child, naked except for socks and shoes, standing in front of the Torch of Liberty. Poster text reads: "Save Your Child From Autocra... |
| Date: | 04 03 1915 |
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| Description: | Newspaper illustration of a man carrying a bedroll standing near railroad tracks and a sign that reads: "Warning, Private Property, Keep Off." The caption ... |
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