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"The Founding of the U.S. Pharmacopeia" Painting

Date: 1957
Description: The artist Robert Thom pauses to pose with his new painting, "The Forming of the United States Pharmacopeia", which depicts the inaugural delegates to the ...
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Wisconsin State Assembly of 1881

Date: 1881
Description: Composite of photographic portraits of men in the Wisconsin State Assembly. Along the bottom a numbered list of names identifies each man.
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Miss Gertrude Deniger

Date: 01 03 1934
Description: Portrait of Miss Gertrude Deniger sitting at her desk. She is executive secretary of the Madison division, Wisconsin Transient Bureau, 133 East Wilson Stre...
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Herbert Hoover

Date: 06 20 1920
Description: Herbert Hoover, during his tenure as head of the U.S. Food Administration, receiving an honorary degree from Brown University.
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Omaha Sioux Dancers

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Description: Omaha Sioux Dancers at the Rosebud Agency. The two men are standing in front of a log cabin with a sod roof and wooden door.
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Sioux Man in Full War Dress

Date: 1898
Description: Full-length portrait of a Sioux man at the Rosebud Agency in full dress, ready for war.
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William Arthur Jones

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Description: William Arthur Jones, U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1897-1905.
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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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Rebecca Chalmers Barton

Date: 07 08 1953
Description: Portrait of Rebecca Chalmers Barton, Director of the Wisconsin Governor's Commission on Human Rights, seated at her desk.
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Walter Simon with his Shot Gun

Date: 11 08 1955
Description: Walter Simon holds his shot gun to show its wooden parts that he crafted himself. According to his obituary, published on October 18, 1964, he was the Dir...
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New Members of Visiting Nurse Staff

Date: 07 17 1958
Description: Two recent additions to the visiting nurse staff of the Madison health department include, from left to right: Charlotte Sneyd, physical therapist; and Pat...
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Claudia Dennis

Date: 01 15 1959
Description: Portrait of Claudia Dennis, the receptionist in the attorney general's office. She was recently hired by the new attorney general, John W. Reynolds.
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Vere Fiedler

Date: 01 21 1959
Description: Portrait of Vere Fiedler, who recently became the new Madison District highway engineer.
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Joseph C. Jones, Highway Engineer

Date: 01 21 1959
Description: Portrait of Joseph C. Jones, retiring Madison District highway engineer.
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Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Interstate Conference of Employment Security Agencies

Date: 09 28 1948
Description: Robert C. Goodwin, Director of the Bureau of Employment Security, and Arthur J. Altmeyer, Commissioner, Social Security Administration, at the twelfth annu...
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Arthur J. Altmeyer on His Last Day in Office as Commissioner of Social Security

Date: 04 10 1953
Description: Arthur Altmeyer, seated at his desk holding a pen, gazes into the camera on his last day in office as Commissioner of Social Security.
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Arthur J. Altmeyer on His Last Day in Office as Commissioner of Social Security

Date: 1953
Description: William Mitchell, Deputy Commissioner, on the left, with Arthur J. Altmeyer. This was Altmeyer's last day as Commissioner of Social Security. The photograp...
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Portrait of William Mitchell

Date: 1953
Description: A portrait of William Mitchell, at his desk as Deputy Commissioner of Social Security. The photograph is inscribed,"To Wilbur Cohen: Whose friendship and w...
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Robert M. Ball, Deputy Director of the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance

Date: 1960
Description: Portrait of Robert M. Ball sitting at his desk, as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance. In 1962, President Kennedy appointed B...
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Wilbur J. Cohen with Natalie Spingarn

Date: 1968
Description: Wilbur J. Cohen with Natalie Davis Spingarn, a speech writer and special assistant to Cohen in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. There is an...

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