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| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | This building, on an entire block of Spaight and Brearly Streets with Lake Monona, was originally the governor's mansion for Leonard J. Farwell. The Farwel... |
| Date: | 09 27 1950 |
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| Description: | View of the newly-equipped preschool room at the Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 09 27 1950 |
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| Description: | Staff members of the Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue, pose around a table for a group portrait. Seated, left to right: Louise Schleicher, as... |
| Date: | 10 19 1950 |
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| Description: | Dane County Veterans Service Office, located in the basement of the Dane County Courthouse at 207 West Main Steet, is shown as an "inadequate, shabby, crow... |
| Date: | 10 08 1950 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Poor Farm on the grounds of the Winnebago County Asylum. There is a large barn, silo, windmill, and the roof of a large building in the ba... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Winnebago County Asylum building. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Exterior rear view of the Winnebago County Asylum building. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of front of a Winnebago County Asylum building. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a Winnebago County Asylum building. |
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| Description: | Five women are seated with an ACORN banner over the blackboard behind them. A man is seated behind them on the right. |
| Date: | 09 1978 |
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| Description: | Wade Rathke seated at an ACORN meeting next to a woman. |
| Date: | 09 1978 |
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| Description: | Wade Rathke, far right, is seated at an ACORN meeting with two other people. |
| Date: | 12 12 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Leslie (Luella) Morris and Allen Zoeller check for children's names in the "Holiday Exchange," a filing system which serves as a clearing house for th... |
| Date: | 05 23 1951 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of women of the Nakoma Welfare League gathered in the yard of the home of Mrs. E.J. (Hazel) Kallevang, 4130 Iroquois Drive, for the annual sp... |
| 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: | 2009 |
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| Description: | Group of people line up for Hunger Task Force delivery. |
| Date: | 07 04 1917 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of the staff and residents of the Dane County Asylum at the second annual picnic for the institution. |
| Date: | 03 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Dane County Home (also known as the "poor house" or "poor farm") is pictured as it is being torn down. It was built in 1855 and located o... |
| Date: | 05 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Jack Schwartz of Roxbury holding a 3-month-old baby girl on her lap. The child is one of the nearly 60 foster children that Mrs. Schwartz has cared fo... |
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