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| Date: | 08 1995 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey presents a big check to representatives of Nicolet College. As chairman or ranking member of the House Appropriations Committee O... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman stand on the customer side of the counters. Phil Hof stands with a large knife behind a tabled covered with meat, while Sam and Herman Ho... |
| Date: | 02 25 1945 |
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| Description: | Indigenous traders on the sidewalk in front of the Burns Philip Ltd. Store display window at Apia, British Samoa (today the independent country of Samoa). ... |
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| Description: | Photograph of Eydie V. Watts, member of the Milwaukee City Civil Service Commssion. Ms. Watts sits at her desk in an office. She is wearing a dress or blou... |
| Date: | 10 1940 |
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| Description: | Irna Phillips sits at her desk dictating a letter to her secretary. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | The stencil list department of The W.S. Ponton Company. |
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| Description: | Waist-up portrait of Dr. Edwin Witte, considered the father of Social Security, Executive Director of the Executive Staff to the Committee on Economic Secu... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Maurine Mulliner was the first Executive Secretary to the Social Security Board, beginning in 1936. This photograph is inscribed "To Wilbur [Cohen] with af... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | From left to right: George Bigge, Arthur Altmeyer, Chairman, and Ellen Woodward in an early meeting of the Social Security Board. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Arthur Altmeyer, Ellen Woodward and George Bigge in an early meeting of the Social Security Board. |
| Date: | 07 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Back row from left to right: William Mitchell, Asst. Executive Director; Leona MacKinnon, Secretary to the Board; Oscar Powell, Executive Director. Front... |
| Date: | 08 13 1948 |
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| Description: | The 13th anniversary of the Social Security Act of August 14, 1935 is observed by its first Executive Director, Frank Bane, (left) now Director of the Coun... |
| Date: | 04 10 1953 |
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| Description: | Arthur Altmeyer, seated at his desk holding a pen, gazes into the camera on his last day in office as Commissioner of Social Security. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | William Mitchell, Deputy Commissioner, on the left, with Arthur J. Altmeyer. This was Altmeyer's last day as Commissioner of Social Security. The photograp... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | A portrait of William Mitchell, at his desk as Deputy Commissioner of Social Security. The photograph is inscribed,"To Wilbur Cohen: Whose friendship and w... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | John F. Kennedy, seated, surrounded by a number of men, including Vice-President Lyndon Baines Johnson, center, standing, and Wilbur Cohen, Assistant Secre... |
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| Description: | Wilbur J. Cohen is with President Lyndon Johnson and two others of the President's economic advisors in the Oval Office of the White House. |
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| Description: | President Lyndon B. Johnson stands next to Wilbur J. Cohen who is holding up a copy of the brochure, "Social Security Information for Young Families." |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Robert M. Ball sitting at his desk, as Deputy Director of the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance. In 1962, President Kennedy appointed B... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Edwin Witte in his office as chief of the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Service (1922-1933). Edwin Witte worked for social welfare programs most of his l... |
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