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Wilbur J. Cohen Swearing-In as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

Date: 05 16 1968
Description: Wilbur J. Cohen, at the podium during his swearing-in as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, makes a remark that causes his wife Eloise, President ...
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Wilbur J. Cohen Swearing-In as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

Date: 1968
Description: Wilbur J. Cohen stands at the podium during his swearing-in as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Seated on the stage with him are his wife Eloise...
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Wilbur J. Cohen Swearing-In as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

Date: 05 16 1968
Description: Group portrait of family and friends at Wilbur Cohen's swearing-in as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. From left to right: Bruce Cohen, Wilbur's...
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Wilbur J. Cohen at His Swearing-In as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

Date: 05 16 1968
Description: Wilbur J. Cohen receives comments from a woman in a wheelchair after his swearing-in as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Among his responsibilit...
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Portrait of Edwin E. Witte

Date: 1931
Description: Edwin Witte in his office as chief of the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Service (1922-1933). Edwin Witte worked for social welfare programs most of his l...
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Altmeyer, Mitchell and Cohen at the 35th Anniversary of Social Security

Date: 1970
Description: Arthur Altmeyer, William Mitchell and Wilbur Cohen laugh at remarks by someone not in the photograph. They are at a celebration of the 35th anniversary of ...
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Celebration of 35th Anniversary of Social Security

Date: 1970
Description: Arthur Altmeyer, standing and speaking from the podium, and Wilbur Cohen beside him, seated, at the 35th anniversary celebration of Social Security bill en...
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Altmeyer and Cohen at the 35th Anniversary of Social Security

Date: 1970
Description: Wilbur Cohen, center, and Arthur Altmeyer right, at a table during the celebration of the 35th anniversary of Social Security enactment. On the left is an ...
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Frances Perkins

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Description: Studio portrait of Frances Perkins, U.S. Secretary of Labor, who spearheaded the committee planning social security. The photo is inscribed to Arthur Altme...
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Arthur J. Altmeyer

Date: 1963
Description: Arthur J. Altmeyer standing in front of the Social Security Administration Headquarters. In 1973 the building was renamed the Altmeyer Building in his hono...
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Cohen and Altmeyer at the 35th Anniversary of the Social Security Bill

Date: 1970
Description: Wilbur Cohen and Arthur Altmeyer sit across the dinner table from John J. Corwin. All three men worked in U.S. Social Security Administration at different ...
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Robert Ball Throwing a Baseball at Social Security Night

Date: 1970
Description: Robert Ball throws the ball out to the catcher before the opening pitch of a baseball game dedicated as Social Security Night at the Orioles old Baltimore ...
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Wilbur and Eloise Cohen and Ladybird Johnson

Date: 1965
Description: From left to right: Eloise Cohen, Wilbur Cohen and Ladybird Johnson are laughing during an event. Wilbur Cohen was a research assistant with the committee ...
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Wilbur Cohen and Rosalynn Carter

Date: 1978
Description: Wilbur Cohen and Rosalynn Carter talk animatedly with a woman. This photograph is dedicated to Wilbur by Martha McSteen, the Dallas Regional Commissioner f...
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Wilbur J. Cohen Standing at a Lectern

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Description: Wilbur Cohen, emphasizing a point, clenches his fists at a lectern. This is probably during a talk for Save Our Security, a non-profit coalition of nationa...
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Wilbur Cohen

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Wilbur J. Cohen smiling for the camera. Wilbur Cohen was a research assistant with the committee which drafted the Social Securi...
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Nelson Cruikshank and Wilbur J. Cohen

Date: 12 01 1972
Description: The First Distinguished Citizen Award of the National Consumers League was given to Nelson H. Cruikshank, president of the American Federation of Labor (AF...
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Portrait of Nelson Cruickshank

Date: 11 05 1969
Description: Formal portrait of Nelson Cruickshank. In 1969, he became President of the AFL-CIO National Council of Senior Citizens, which began as a coalition Nelson C...
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Formal Portrait of Arthur J. Altmeyer

Date: 1935
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Arthur J. Altmeyer, probably during the time he was Chair of the three-person Social Security Board from 1935-1937.

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