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First Wisconsin Unemployment Check

Date: 08 17 1936
Description: Front side of the first unemployment check issued in Wisconsin to Neils B. Ruud.
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Charles Palmeri Receives Check

Date: 11 03 1934
Description: Charles Palmeri, aka Pasquale, in an apron, receives a check from James Lewis, Special Deputy representing the street banking commission, to settle his acc...
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Hugh Flannery Receives $100 War Bond

Date: 01 29 1945
Description: With a backdrop of celebrity portrait photographs and stacks of coins on his desk, Hugh Flannery, manager of the Orpheum Theatre, is receiving a $100 War B...
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Ruth Ryan with Empty Bank Cans at CUNA

Date: 05 09 1938
Description: Ruth Ryan, bond secretary of C.U.N.A., Credit Union National Association, with empty bank cans and money.
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CUNA Officers Opening Bank Cans

Date: 05 09 1938
Description: Four CUNA (Credit Union National Association) officers, including Roy Bergengren, open can banks in the Credit Union National Association office at the Rai...
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Three Men with $5000 Check

Date: 03 30 1936
Description: Three men displaying $5000 check issued by U.S. Treasury Dept. to Richland Cooperative Electric Association for Rural Electrification Program.
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Farmer Receiving Corn-Hog Check

Date: 07 30 1934
Description: Large group of Dane County farmers, standing in the Dane County Agent's office, holding checks. They are surrounding Floyd Stubley.
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Levitan Receives Tax Vouchers

Date: 06 15 1932
Description: Sol Levitan, Wisconsin State Treasurer, receives $750,000 in tax vouchers from a Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad executive.
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Coin Display

Date: 04 24 1956
Description: Coin display and 3 placards of explantion in a window at Madison Bank & Trust Company, 23 West Main Street.
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Lorraine and Jackie Winters

Date: 01 24 1944
Description: Lorraine and Jackie Winters (ages 6 and 8 respectively), standing in front of piles of coins they have saved to buy a third War Bond. The children live at ...
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Fred Zimmerman, Wisconsin Secretary of State

Date: 02 02 1944
Description: Fred Zimmerman, Wisconsin Secretary of State, holding three checks dated January 31, 1944. The checks are payable to First Wisconsin National Bank, Milwau...
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Red Cross Donation

Date: 02 15 1944
Description: Madison East High School student, Sydney Freeman, presenting a check for the Red Cross war fund to Oscar Rennebohm and Albert Felly.
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Wisconsin Banking Commission

Date: 11 05 1944
Description: Members of the Wisconsin Banking Commission shown examining a State Historical Society collection of coins and currency, and bank notes signed by some of W...
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Employee Receiving Paycheck

Date: 1945
Description: Lorraine Gray collecting her pay in cash at the paymaster's office at the RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division of Ray-O-Vac located in the 1400 ...
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Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac Picnic

Date: 07 28 1945
Description: Male employees of RMR playing cards at a company picnic.
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Police Chief McCormick and Kenneth Jevens

Date: 11 22 1945
Description: Police Chief William H. McCormick is shown giving eighty dollars to Kenneth Jevens, 14 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Jevens, 2318 Sommers Avenue. Th...
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Loraine Hotel Hold-up

Date: 11 24 1947
Description: Margaret Foley, left, and Teresa White, right, are shown behind the cashier's window at Hotel Loraine where they were forced at gun point to turn over $154...
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Young Adult Club with Wishing Well

Date: 01 23 1948
Description: Five members of the Young Adult Club dropping coins into a wishing well during a dance at the Community Center to aid the March of Dimes. Pictured left to ...
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Boy Scout Recognition

Date: 02 24 1948
Description: Scout Charles Anderson is being presented with a $500 check by Edward Fischer, Sheriff of Dane County, safety director and past commander of the Veterans o...
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Underground Newspaper Cover: The Madison Bugle-American

Date: 09 16 1970
Description: Cover of "The Madison Bugle-American," an underground newspaper, featuring a cartoon of a businessman holding a leashed dog, a woman in a lounge dress smok...

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