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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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USO-Travelers Aid Award Ceremony Participants

Date: 03 19 1944
Description: USO-Travelers Aid award ceremony featuring Katheryn Heringer, medical social worker at the Bureau of Handicapped Children and Orthopedic Hospital; Lieut. J...
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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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C.D. Lehman Receiving Certificate

Date: 06 28 1945
Description: C.D. Lehman, superintendent of the State Public School, Sparta, receiving a certificate of service from Herman A. Kloppmann, board president, with A.W. Bay...
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Thomas Doran

Date: 06 28 1945
Description: Portrait of Thomas Doran, Director of the City of Madison Relief / Welfare Department.
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Community Welfare Council Officers

Date: 12 16 1948
Description: Recently elected officers of the Community Welfare Council. Seated, left to right: Mrs. Thomas (Rosamond) Doran, 4117 Yuma Drive, representing the Catholic...
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Dane Co. Home For The Aged

Date: 02 22 1950
Description: Exterior side view of Dane Co. Home For The Aged, showing porches and a dangerous fire escape. The newspaper headline calls the building a "fire trap."
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Dane Co. Home For The Aged

Date: 02 23 1950
Description: Metal fire escape at rear of the Dane County Home For The Aged. Newspaper calls building a "fire trap."
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Dane Co. Home For The Aged

Date: 02 22 1950
Description: Three rows of beds on the third floor of the Dane County Home For The Aged. The room had only one exit leading to a wooden porch and a wooden fire escape. ...
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Neighborhood House

Date: 09 27 1950
Description: View of the newly-equipped preschool room at the Neighborhood House, 768 West Washington Avenue.
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Neighborhood House Staff

Date: 09 27 1950
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...
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Dane County Veterans Service Office

Date: 10 19 1950
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...
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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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Empty Stocking Club

Date: 12 12 1950
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...
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Nakoma Welfare League Spring Breakfast

Date: 05 23 1951
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...
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1951-52 United Givers' Fund Drive

Date: 10 16 1951
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...
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Dane County Poor House

Date: 03 20 1954
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...
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Mrs. Jack Schwartz

Date: 05 05 1954
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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First Governor's Conference on Aging Population

Date: 05 26 1956
Description: Discussing plans for the First Governor's Conference on an Aging Population are Governor Walter Kohler; Minnetta Hastings, chairman of the committee on the...
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First Governor's Conference on Aging Population

Date: 05 28 1956
Description: Transportation is often a problem for the older population. The Council of Jewish Women has arranged a transportation group to take older Jewish persons to...

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