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Alimony Payment

Date: 09 19 1958
Description: County worker collects alimony payment from an ex-husband.
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Silver Dollars

Date: 07 22 1954
Description: A table full of silver dollars where bank workers are preparing them to be sent to American Can Co., a Milwaukee-based company which plans on paying its em...
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Three Men with $5000 Check

Date: 03 30 1936
Description: Three men displaying $5000 check issued by U.S. Treasury Dept. to Richland Cooperative Electric Association for Rural Electrification Program.
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Payday at Truck

Date: 01 20 1927
Description: A group of men line up for their pay at an armored International Model 63 truck used by the City of New York Department of Finance. The truck is guarded by...
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Young Adult Club with Wishing Well

Date: 01 23 1948
Description: Five members of the Young Adult Club dropping coins into a wishing well during a dance at the Community Center to aid the March of Dimes. Pictured left to ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Chicago Seed

Date: 1968
Description: Cover of "The Chicago Seed," an underground newspaper, featuring Santa Claus crucified on a dollar sign. The landscape below is made from collaged advertis...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Madison Bugle-American

Date: 09 16 1970
Description: Cover of "The Madison Bugle-American," an underground newspaper, featuring a cartoon of a businessman holding a leashed dog, a woman in a lounge dress smok...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: Strategic Hamlet

Date: 11 11 1970
Description: Cover of "Strategic Hamlet: An Isla Vista Street Journal," an underground newspaper, featuring a woman as Justice balancing the Bank of America and a group...
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No Taxes for War

Date: 04 15 1966
Description: At a demonstration against the payment of taxes to support the war in Vietnam, a young man burns his check to the Internal Revenue Service. Probably in fro...
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Madison Soap Box Derby

Date: 06 23 1949
Description: Cornelius "Connie" Ryan, Madison Soap Box Derby participant, receiving money from Jim Schmitz, a representative of Connie's sponsor, The Hub, 22 West Miffl...
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Bulletproof International Automobile

Date: 1940
Description: An International D-30 automobile with a special bulletproof body parked outside the Esquire Theater. Two police officers are standing near the vehicle, and...
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Boy Showing His Business Project

Date: 1920
Description: Young Charles Vosmik posing outside a candy and ice cream shop with a basket of goods to sell to a man standing on a sidewalk. The man is holding a coin in...
Book or Pamphlet

Donations for Sufferers of Yellow Fever

Date: 09 28 1878
Description: An illustration depicting well-dressed ferry passengers depositing money in the yellow fever box at Fulton Ferry. A sign reads: "Contributions recieved (
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Over $1000.00

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Description: Pile of dimes on a desk with a sign that reads: "Over $1000.00."
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Panhellenic Scholarships

Date: 06 24 1958
Description: Jean Mickelson, East High School graduate, and Judith Fiedler, West High graduate, are awarded $100 scholarships by Margeret Stehr, treasurer of the Madiso...
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Sertoma Gives to Polio Fund

Date: 10 01 1959
Description: The Madison Sertoma Club presented a check for $100 to the National Foundation to aid polio patients. Dr. Robert Harmon, right, Dane County chapter emergen...
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International Harvester Scout: Saving Pennies While it Carries Millions

Date: 06 02 1965
Description: International Harvester Scout. Original caption reads: "Saving Pennies while It Caries Millions. Photograph No. MX-10029-- A David doing work normally rese...
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Gisholt Workers Posing with Safety Sign

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Description: Workers posing outside a factory building at Gisholt Machine Company by a large sign for an employee contest that reads: "Safety Pays at Gisholt." The sign...
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Sales Safari

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Description: Drawing depicting a man wearing a suit and a safari hat crouching on the ground next to his briefcase, following the scent of an "Order" to dollar signs. T...
Poster

"The Big Rip Off!"

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Description: A man with his mouth open, and wearing a hat and sunglasses is sitting on a sulky (two-wheeled horse racing vehicle) while holding empty reins out in front...

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