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Victorian Era Postcard

Date: 11 17 1909
Description: Colorized view depicting men and women office workers taking a break in a celebratory mode. Two of the women are taking a sheet off the calendar on the wal...
Photograph

Wisconsin Capitol, South Wing

Date: 1921
Description: Employees of the business office of the Insurance Department.
Photograph

Employment Office

Date: 1933
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...
Photograph

Pay Office and Council at Pawhuska Agency

Date: 
Description: An agent's pay office and council building at the Pawhuska Agency in Oklahoma Territory. A man is standing outside near the entrance.
Postcard

Employers Mutuals Insurance Company Building

Date: 
Description: View across lawn toward the Employers Mutuals Insurance Company Building. Caption reads: "Employers Mutuals Insurance Company Building, Wausau, Wis."
Photograph

East Side of Main Street

Date: 1900
Description: View of the buildings located on what is thought to be the east side of Main Street, including a physician and surgeon's office and a bank.
Postcard

Hardware Mutual Fire and Casualty Companies

Date: 1930
Description: View across street towards the building. Caption reads: "Home Office, Wisconsin Hardware Mutual Fire and Casualty Companies, Stevens Point Wis."
Photograph

Hardware Mutual Insurance Company

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view of the Hardware Mutual Insurance Company office.
Print

48th Danish Colonial (Class) Lottery Ad

Date: 1930
Description: Image of a man seated at a desk reading a Western Union telegram informing him that he has won $200,000 in a lottery. Text reads, "Everyone is born to a ch...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

P&H Accounting Office

Date: 08 12 1913
Description: Two men working a desks in the Pawling & Harnischfeger accounting office. There are photographs on the wall, including a crane, the P&H plant, and a St. Lo...
Photograph

P&H Advertising Room

Date: 08 15 1913
Description: Men at desks in the Pawling & Harnischfeger advertising department. Large windows on left look out towards another building, and men on equipment can be se...
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Happy Holidays From Chappell's Ad Dept.

Date: 1930
Description: Holiday card from Chappell's Ad Dept. The card has seven consecutive panels accordion folded. The front panel shows a bell hanging by a ribbon surrounded b...
Print

Madison Fire Insurance Co. Letterhead

Date: 
Description: Letterhead of the Madison Fire Insurance Company of Madison, Wisconsin, with five different typefaces, distinct fields, elaborate capital letters "F" and "...
Photograph

Men at Employment Office

Date: 1912
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, ...
Photograph

Eydie V. Watts

Date: 
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...
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Irna Phillips Dictacting to Her Secretary

Date: 10 1940
Description: Irna Phillips sits at her desk dictating a letter to her secretary.
Photograph

Stencil List Department

Date: 1928
Description: The stencil list department of The W.S. Ponton Company.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Early Meeting of the Social Security Board

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

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