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First Unemployment Check in Wisconsin

Date: 08 17 1936
Description: Neils Ruud, 824 E. Dayton Street, receiving the first unemployment compensation check issued in Wisconsin from Voyta Wrabetz, chairman of the state industr...
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Salzburg Seminar

Date: 1962
Description: Arthur Altmeyer standing at a blackboard speaking at the Salzburg seminar in American studies.

Arthur J. Altmeyer (1891–1972) was the United States Commi...

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Altmeyer and Signers of Medicare Bill

Date: 07 30 1965
Description: Caption reads: "Arthur Altmeyer poses outdoors with John Engell (last name?), Paul Douglas, and Oscar Ewing at the signing of the Medicare Bill." Arthur...
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Young Arthur Altmeyer and Friends

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of Arthur Altmeyer as a young man posing in Wingra Park with five other young people identified as Selma, Russell, Lloyd, May Wescot...
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UAW Advisory Committee on Guaranteed Annual Wage

Date: 1954
Description: Arthur Altmeyer poses with the other 19 members of the United Automobile Workers Advisory Committee on Guaranteed Annual Wage.
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Altmeyer at Inter-American Conference on Social Security

Date: 1951
Description: Arthur Altmeyer speaking at the Inter-American Conference on Social Security, which took place in Buenes Aires. Eva Peron is seated to his left, wearing he...
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Elizabeth Wickenden

Date: 1960
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Professor Elizabeth Wickenden, professor of urban studies and technical consultant on public social policy to the Nationa...
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Sydney S. Miller

Date: 03 14 1945
Description: Portrait of Sydney S. Miller, manager of the Madison field office of the United States Social Security Administration.
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Arthur M. Altmeyer

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Description: Formal portrait of Arthur Altmeyer as Chairman of the Social Security Board.
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FDR Signs the Social Security Bill

Date: 08 14 1935
Description: President Franklin D. Roosevelt about to sign the Social Security Act of 1935.
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Edwin E. Witte

Date: 1928
Description: Portrait of Edwin Witte, chief of the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Service from 1922-1933.

While the executive director of the President's Committee o...

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Dr. Francis Townsend

Date: 1938
Description: Dr. Francis E. Townsend seated on the platform of a Townsend Plan Club at a park.
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Madison Social Security Office Manager

Date: 10 08 1950
Description: Sydney S. Miller, manager of the Madison Social Security Office, shares a 1950 government-issued booklet explaining a program to employers of household wor...
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Sears, Roebuck, and Company Profit Sharing

Date: 02 15 1952
Description: Store manager Robert H. Anderson (left) hands out statements for the 1951 profits to six of the Sears, Roebuck, and Company employees who are members of th...
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IH Demonstration Farm at Gull Lake

Date: 12 1928
Description: Cameramen staging a shot of a man and woman on a Farmall Regular tractor in front of farmhouse at an International Harvester demonstration farm in Gull Lak...
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Local Resident Pickets at Kroger Store

Date: 1969
Description: Picketers on the sidewalk in front of a Kroger supermarket in Oshkosh demonstrating for and against the grape boycott. Signs read, "Eat Grapes Best Medicin...
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Edwin E. Witte

Date: 1922
Description: A studio portrait of Edwin Witte as a young man.
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Sears Profit Sharing Employees

Date: 02 18 1956
Description: Group portrait of the nine members longest in standing in the Madison Sears, Roebuck and Company "savings and profit-sharing pension fund." They are, left ...
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Eydie V. Watts

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Description: Photograph of Eydie V. Watts, member of the Milwaukee City Civil Service Commssion. Ms. Watts sits at her desk in an office. She is wearing a dress or blou...
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Edwin E. Witte

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Description: Waist-up portrait of Dr. Edwin Witte, considered the father of Social Security, Executive Director of the Executive Staff to the Committee on Economic Secu...

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