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Hearing at Dane County Court House on Fuel Oil Shortage

Date: 01 19 1948
Description: Hearing at the Dane County Court House attended by city officials and fuel dealers concerning temporary fuel oil shortages. Pictured clockwise around the t...
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Myrtle Hansen

Date: 01 27 1949
Description: Dane County Clerk of Circuit Court Myrtle Hansen in her office with some of the court orders from 1948 which permitted about 50 Madison residents to change...
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Governor Rennebohm Signs Appropriation Bill

Date: 07 29 1949
Description: Governor Rennebohm signing an appropriation bill for $1,000,000 that will fund 94 added positions at the state's mental institutions. Watching him sign are...
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US Internal Revenue Service Tax Office

Date: 03 14 1950
Description: Taxpayers trying to meet the State and Federal March 15, 1950 deadline crowd the United States Internal Revenue Service Tax Office.
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Madison Recreation Department Staff

Date: 01 10 1952
Description: Group portrait of staff members of the Madison Recreation Department, left to right: Standing, Hermine Sauthoff, Clarence Schwengel, Glenn "Pat" Holmes and...
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Woman Examining Tax Rolls

Date: 02 01 1952
Description: A woman sits on a table in an office, possibly examining tax rolls.
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Draft Protest Meeting

Date: 05 08 1952
Description: Adolph Maasen (left), the leader of a group of state farmers claiming prejudice against farmers by the State Selective Service, observing Colonel Bentley C...
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Draft Protest Meeting

Date: 05 08 1952
Description: Elevated view of some of the nearly 70 farmers and their wives from nine Wisconsin counties gathered in the state assembly chamber to hear a discussion of ...
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Rebecca Chalmers Barton

Date: 07 08 1953
Description: Portrait of Rebecca Chalmers Barton, Director of the Wisconsin Governor's Commission on Human Rights, seated at her desk.
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Legal Counsel before WERC Hearing

Date: 1967
Description: Jesus Salas, left, is leader of Obreros Unidos (United Workers), Wisconsin's migrant farm workers' union. In the center, legal counsel David Loeffler and o...
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Bancroft Obreros Unidos Strikers

Date: 08 24 1967
Description: Elevated view of 150 workers rallying as a part of Obreros Unidos (United Workers) protest against poor working conditions of migrant farm workers in the S...
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Recount

Date: 04 12 1960
Description: In a recount that lasted almost four hours, the tide turned in favor of Alderman John Budzien, who apparently had lost last Tuesday's election to Robert A....
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New American Motors Squad Car for the State Patrol

Date: 01 12 1959
Description: Mike Gilomen, an employee of Capital Auto Body, applies a state patrol decal to the side of the first American Motors Ambassador to be added to the patrol'...
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Claudia Dennis

Date: 01 15 1959
Description: Portrait of Claudia Dennis, the receptionist in the attorney general's office. She was recently hired by the new attorney general, John W. Reynolds.
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Vere Fiedler

Date: 01 21 1959
Description: Portrait of Vere Fiedler, who recently became the new Madison District highway engineer.
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Joseph C. Jones, Highway Engineer

Date: 01 21 1959
Description: Portrait of Joseph C. Jones, retiring Madison District highway engineer.
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State Commission on Human Rights Officers

Date: 03 12 1959
Description: Newly elected officers of the State Commission on Human Rights. "They are, left to right, the Rev. Perry Saito, pastor of St. Paul's Methodist Church, Stev...
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Census Taking to Begin

Date: 01 26 1960
Description: Alfred Plaenert (seated), director of the 1960 census in the Wisconsin Second Congressional district, and Al Cremer, Minneapolis, one of 17 regional direct...
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In the U.S. Supreme Court Room

Date: 05 1937
Description: In the U.S. Supreme Court Room, after hearing the Court hand down its decisions upholding the constitutionality of the old age insurance and unemployment i...
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Early Meeting of the Social Security Board

Date: 1939
Description: From left to right: George Bigge, Arthur Altmeyer, Chairman, and Ellen Woodward in an early meeting of the Social Security Board.

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