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| Description: | View down a long room with beds lined up in rows along the sides for Civilian Conservation Corps members at Camp Petenwell. There is a woodburning stove in... |
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| Description: | View from ice of men from the CCC group at Camp Petenwell cutting ice. Three men stand on the ice on the right. A steep bank surrounds the icy water. Men a... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A group of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) men working in a field. On a rough road are three trucks. Two of the trucks have large groups of men in them. ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | The cover of a promotional brochure features a drawing of Hull-House, a Chicago social settlement founded in 1889 by Jane Addams. Mrs. W.F. (Alma Schmidt) ... |
| Date: | 10 1961 |
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| Description: | Catholic Welfare Bureau is one of 29 United Givers agencies. This agency handles foster care and adoptions and provides counseling to unwed mothers and fam... |
| Date: | 11 17 1961 |
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| Description: | Newburgh, N.Y. City Manager Joseph Mitchell, pictured here, gave a talk to University of Wisconsin Conservation Club about reducing federal and state welfa... |
| Date: | 12 30 1964 |
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| Description: | One of 36 new apartments at the Truax Field Madison public housing site. It is one of four public housing sites in Madison providing 160 units for those el... |
| Date: | 08 27 1965 |
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| Description: | Richard Buckley is hired as the new director of the City-County Alcoholism Information and Referral Center. Buckley comes to Madison from Omaha, Nebraska. |
| Date: | 11 05 1965 |
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| Description: | Portrait of social worker Helen Hilton, 1919 U.W. graduate, taken upon her retirement from the city welfare department. She had worked more than 40 years a... |
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| Description: | A driver sitting in the driver's seat is talking on the car radio while awaiting passengers for the Women's Transit Authority. The WTA was a sexual assault... |
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| Description: | Black letters on white, text reads: "A Tax Payer Living Off Tax Payers." |
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| Description: | Chicago Child Care Society designed by the architectural firm Keck and Keck as Project #617 in 1963. This building was three stories built on stilts. The C... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Poster featuring an image of a child wrapping her arms around woman's neck. Text on left reads: "150,000 Children under the age of 6 die every year from pr... |
| Date: | 05 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Ida Kittleson in her Spaight Street home. She has been active in several organizations, including the Humane Society, Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Kiddie... |
| Date: | 05 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Three of the eight women who attended the Initial Gifts luncheon to launch a Madison Jewish Welfare Fund drive. From the left are Frances Weinstein, Virgin... |
| Date: | 05 08 1957 |
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| Description: | The guest speaker at the Initial Gifts luncheon to launch a Madison Jewish Welfare Fund drive was Mrs. Harry Jones from Detroit, Michigan. She is a member ... |
| Date: | 05 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Mrs. N.J. Sudow (right) has annually served as hostess for the Initial Gifts luncheon to launch a Madison Jewish Welfare Fund drive. In the photo she visit... |
| Date: | 05 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Three ladies attending the Initial Gifts luncheon to launch a Madison Jewish Welfare Fund drive. From left are Dorothy Sinykin, Evelyn Minkoff, and Helene ... |
| Date: | 05 02 1957 |
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| Description: | Foster mothers take homeless infants and children into their homes. Members of the Madison advisory board of the Children's Service Society, a Red Feather ... |
| Date: | 05 02 1957 |
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| Description: | Mary Gill, a member of the Madison Advisory Board of the Children's Service Society, a Red Feather agency, is about to put a hat on one of the three foster... |
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