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| Date: | 01 13 1965 |
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| Description: | Toddlers looking into the camera with tears in their eyes. They were found abandoned at the Central YWCA. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| 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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| Description: | Studio portrait of Zintka Lanuni ("Lost Bird") Colby, a Lakota, who as an infant survived the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1891. |
| Date: | 03 14 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Sydney S. Miller, manager of the Madison field office of the United States Social Security Administration. |
| Date: | 06 28 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Thomas Doran, Director of the City of Madison Relief / Welfare Department. |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Edmonia Lewis (1845-1890), African American Sculptor. Lewis, the first famous American sculptor of African descent, had a Chipp... |
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| Description: | Formal portrait of Arthur Altmeyer as Chairman of the Social Security Board. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| 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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| Description: | Studio portrait of Zintka Lanuni ("Lost Bird") Colby, a Lakota, as a young child wearing traditional Indian clothing of a fringed shirt, and pants. She is ... |
| Date: | 02 13 1951 |
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| Description: | Henry Naumann and Mrs. Julia Bennett pose for a portrait while wearing costumes at the Older Adult Klub masquerade ball. The event was held at the Madison ... |
| Date: | 10 16 1951 |
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| Description: | Two-year-old "Jane" (not her real name), is one of the many foster children helped by the United Givers' Fund. More than nine hundred volunteer workers are... |
| Date: | 01 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Dorothy Waite, Assistant Director of Wisconsin Division for Children & Youth, Department of Public Welfare. |
| Date: | 11 07 1958 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Joan Miller, 1958 social welfare aide chairman of Red Cross services to military and veterans. She heads the volunteer unit which helps the Red... |
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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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| 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... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Maurine Mulliner was the first Executive Secretary to the Social Security Board, beginning in 1936. This photograph is inscribed "To Wilbur [Cohen] with af... |
| Date: | 06 05 1943 |
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| Description: | From left to right: Sir William Beveridge, author of the British "Cradle to the Grave" social security plan, and Arthur J. Altmeyer, Chairman of the Social... |
| Date: | 09 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Robert C. Goodwin, Director of the Bureau of Employment Security, and Arthur J. Altmeyer, Commissioner, Social Security Administration, at the twelfth annu... |
| Date: | 04 10 1953 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| 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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