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| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | This building, on an entire block of Spaight and Brearly Streets with Lake Monona, was originally the governor's mansion for Leonard J. Farwell. The Farwel... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Fair-goers stand in line to enter the W.P.A. Exhibit tent at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | This building, on an entire block of Spaight and Brearly Streets with Lake Monona, was originally the governor's mansion for Leonard J. Farwell. The Farwel... |
| Date: | 05 23 1951 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of women of the Nakoma Welfare League gathered in the yard of the home of Mrs. E.J. (Hazel) Kallevang, 4130 Iroquois Drive, for the annual sp... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Interior of the infirmary barracks at the National Military Home. Men sit in chairs next to rows of beds on both sides of the room. Construction of the Nat... |
| Date: | 07 04 1917 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of the staff and residents of the Dane County Asylum at the second annual picnic for the institution. |
| Date: | 01 1979 |
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| Description: | Bus operated by the Portage County Commission on Aging and its driver. The bus took senior citizens to lunch at the Senior Center and provided other servic... |
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| Description: | Food conservation is demonstrated to a group outdoors at a community center. |
| Date: | 01 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Dr. Hertha Tarrasch, center, psychiatrist, spoke to the foster parents, telling them about emotional problems of children. Dr. Tarrasch, who is consulting ... |
| Date: | 08 09 1936 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of fourteen people who make up the Governor's Citizens Committee on Public Welfare. They are posed front of a building at the Northe... |
| Date: | 08 14 1935 |
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| Description: | President Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act. Surrounding him are: Robert L. Doughton, Senator Barkley, Senator Wagner, Congressman John Dingell, Secr... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | View of group of people standing on stage at the Inter-American Conference on Social Security. Arthur J. Altmeyer stands in the middle. Eva Peron stands se... |
| Date: | 07 30 1965 |
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| Description: | Wilbur Cohen receives a pen from President Lyndon Johnson at the formal signing of the Medicare Act part of the Social Security Amendments Act. Lady Bird J... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Middle-aged woman seated at an outdoor table with refreshments. She is wearing a hat made out of newspaper. The occasion is a card party arranged for older... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Jackson County Home. Flags are hanging from the front porch, which has a balcony above. Men are sitting on the side landing on the lef... |
| Date: | 10 16 1967 |
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| Description: | View across sidewalk towards a man sitting on a bench outside a storefront with a screen door that has a sign on it for Purity Bread. An American flag is h... |
| Date: | 06 18 1958 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin's first lady, Helen Thomson (left), greets three of the foster mothers who were honored at a tea in the executive mansion. Being greeted are Evel... |
| Date: | 06 18 1958 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Marvel Albright (right), a Dane county social worker, visits with Margaret Olson (Madison) and Mrs. Charles Berend (DeForest) at a tea for Dane county... |
| Date: | 06 18 1958 |
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| Description: | Three members of the Woman's Club of Madison that presided at the tea for foster mothers of Dane county at the Wisconsin executives' mansion. Pictured are ... |
| Date: | 06 18 1958 |
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| Description: | Three women who attended the Foster Mothers of Dane County tea at the Wisconsin executives mansion. Pictured are Margaret Straub, head resident at Blessed ... |
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