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| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of St. Clara's Orphanage, which was built in 1882 and run by the Felecian Sisters. |
| Date: | 03 19 1944 |
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| Description: | USO-Travelers Aid award ceremony featuring Katheryn Heringer, medical social worker at the Bureau of Handicapped Children and Orthopedic Hospital; Lieut. J... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Children hold signs that read "We Need A Place To Play" and "We Need a Street to Play On," which is related to the Newark Community Union Project. |
| 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: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A crew of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) youth starting for the field where they were working on ribes eradication as part of the effort to defeat the w... |
| Date: | 06 28 1945 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 28 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Thomas Doran, Director of the City of Madison Relief / Welfare Department. |
| Date: | 08 14 1935 |
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| Description: | President Franklin D. Roosevelt about to sign the Social Security Act of 1935. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 02 1932 |
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| Description: | Engraving by Charles Silver to mark the passage of Wisconsin's Unemployment Compensation Law, the first in the nation. |
| Date: | 12 16 1948 |
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| Description: | Recently elected officers of the Community Welfare Council. Seated, left to right: Mrs. Thomas (Rosamond) Doran, 4117 Yuma Drive, representing the Catholic... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Poster for the Madison Tenant Union, an organization created for tenants to improve housing conditions and offer guidance with tenant grievances against la... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Dr. Francis E. Townsend seated on the platform of a Townsend Plan Club at a park. |
| Date: | 02 22 1950 |
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| 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." |
| Date: | 02 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Metal fire escape at rear of the Dane County Home For The Aged. Newspaper calls building a "fire trap." |
| Date: | 02 22 1950 |
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| 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. ... |
| 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... |
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