Date: | 08 17 1936 |
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Description: | Neils Ruud, 824 E. Dayton Street, receiving the first unemployment compensation check issued in Wisconsin from Voyta Wrabetz, chairman of the state industr... |
Date: | 07 1932 |
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Description: | Man bending over to pick vegetables in the West Pullman Works' community garden. The garden was one of several factory gardens created under International ... |
Date: | 08 1932 |
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Description: | Man picking vegetables in the Wisconsin Steel Works community garden. The garden was one of several factory gardens created under International Harvester's... |
Date: | 07 1932 |
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Description: | Three men picking vegetables in the Deering Works community garden. The garden was one of several factory gardens created under International Harvester's "... |
Date: | 12 09 1933 |
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Description: | Men crowd around the newly opened Dane County C.W.A. Pay Station at the corner of West Dayton and North Carroll Streets to pick up paychecks. |
Date: | 11 20 1933 |
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Description: | Unemployed men stand in line for CWA (Civil Works Administration) jobs, inside the Public Employment Office, 111 W. Main Street. |
Date: | 01 28 1932 |
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Description: | Governor Philip F. La Follette signing unemployment insurance law. Left to right: Henry Ohl Jr., Mrs. Elizabeth Brandeis-Raushenbusch, Paul Raushenbusch, ... |
Date: | 1933 |
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Description: | Men looking for a job during the Great Depression waiting their turn in the Employment Office waiting room, while another man is sitting with a clerk and f... |
Date: | 1971 |
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Description: | Poster for a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) march against racist unemployment, taking place March 20, 1971, in Washington, D.C., and Sacramento, C... |
Date: | 05 18 1936 |
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Description: | A Works Progress Administration (WPA) crew at work laying a stone terrace in Stevens Point. |
Date: | 1935 |
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Description: | As part of a Wisconsin unemployment project, workmen dig a sewer trench by hand for the city of Spooner. |
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: | 1938 |
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Description: | Elevated view of Civil Conservation Camp (CCC), tentatively identified as the Bloomington camp. |
Date: | 04 26 1975 |
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Description: | Speakers platform for the Jobs Now Rally called by the AFL-CIO at R.F. Kennedy Stadium. The rally was called to draw attention to the problems caused by th... |
Date: | 1975 |
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Description: | Children of unemployed members of the Amalgamated Clothing workers picket with their parents to protest low-wage clothing imports. They carry signs that re... |
Date: | 1936 |
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Description: | View of the atrium of Milwaukee's City Hall with a crowd of people gathered to register for unemployment compensation. |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | View from behind the counter of men lined up in the Second Office of the State Employment Agency. Three people in the foreground are providing assistance, ... |
Date: | 04 03 1915 |
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Description: | Newspaper illustration of a man carrying a bedroll standing near railroad tracks and a sign that reads: "Warning, Private Property, Keep Off." The caption ... |
Date: | 03 15 1961 |
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Description: | A man is standing and holding a microphone. Behind him are two cameramen with cameras, and several people sitting or standing. In the foreground are two me... |
Date: | 1936 |
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Description: | Portrait of Arthur J. Altmeyer, a key figure in the creation of the United States Social Security system. Altmeyer was a student of John R. Commons at UW-M... |
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