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Wisconsin State Employment Office

Date: 08 09 1934
Description: The Wisconsin State Employment Office, formerly the Capital City Bank, located on the corner of King and South Pinckney Streets. On the left is Liggett's ...
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WSES, Employers' Interview Room

Date: 08 09 1934
Description: Wisconsin State Employment Service, 111 King Street, employers' interview room, table and chairs.
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WSES, Women's Interview Room

Date: 08 09 1934
Description: Wisconsin State Employment Services, 111 King Street, women's interview room, desk, chairs. There is a view of the street below through windows on the righ...
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WSES, Industrial Section, Men's Waiting Room

Date: 08 09 1934
Description: Wisconsin State Employment Services, 111 King Street, waiting room, industrial section, tables and chairs.
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Dane County Outdoor Relief Office

Date: 09 05 1935
Description: Five men and one woman in the office of the Dane County Outdoor Relief Department, Work Division, 22 W. Doty Street, with maps of projects on the wall.
Photograph

C.W.A. Pay Station

Date: 12 09 1933
Description: Hundreds of men are crowded around the newly opened Dane County C.W.A. pay station, at the corner of West Dayton and North Carroll Streets.
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Men Registering for CWA Employment

Date: 11 20 1933
Description: Doris Brobst, clerk for the Public Employment Office, sitting at her desk, 111 W. Main Street, registering a group of men for CWA (Civil Work Administratio...
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University of Wisconsin Recreation Students

Date: 11 23 1949
Description: University of Wisconsin recreation student Mary Ann Busch, Eagle River, receives a call for a student to lead games at a little girl's club. Glenn Gritzmac...
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Women's Service Exchange

Date: 03 02 1954
Description: D.F. Farmer of Hyland-Hall Company is shown with Jennie Last (center) and Gertrude Berray (right), both of whom were hired by the firm through placement by...
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Women's Service Exchange

Date: 03 02 1954
Description: Portrait of Mary Stewart, a woman who recently applied for a job through the Women's Service Exchange and is now employed as a secretary to the director of...
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Women's Service Exchange

Date: 03 02 1954
Description: Sophie Siebecker, Executive Secretary of Family Service, dictates a letter to her secretary Mae Dieden. Dieden received her position through the Women's Se...
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Women's Service Exchange

Date: 03 02 1954
Description: Berta Newel serves a customer, Hazel Van Wagene, at her new job as a clerk in the yard goods department of Yost's-Kessenich's store. Mrs. Newell received e...
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Delta Labor Agency Recruiting Trailer

Date: 1969
Description: Side view of Delta Labor Agency recruiting trailer in South Texas showing advertisement in Spanish seeking men, women and families to pick tomatoes in Cali...
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Migrant Worker Employment

Date: 09 17 1954
Description: A.T. Rose (left), director of the Wisconsin State Employment Service, conferring with Don Larin, farm placement chief of the United States Employment Servi...
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Interior of Wisconsin State Employment Service

Date: 1912
Description: Interior of an office of the Wisconsin State Employment Service, with applicants for work, and officials.
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Wisconsin State Employment Service Interior

Date: 1919
Description: Interior of the Milwaukee office of the Wisconsin State Employment Service, with applicants for work.
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Presidental Political Campaign Ephemera

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Description: A presidential political campaign advertisement with head and shoulders portraits of George H.W. Bush and Dan Quayle and a title that reads: "Finding the r...
Poster

Jobs for Fighters

Date: 1919
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a a soldier holding his "Honorable Discharge" papers and reaching for the handle of a door. The door has a sign that re...
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Isabel La Follette and Deborah Sherman

Date: 02 18 1954
Description: Isabel La Follette (right) and probably Deborah Sherman, are discussing the Woman's Service Exchange, which Mrs. La Follette started at the Madison Vocatio...
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Gisholt Sales Force

Date: 12 1906
Description: The caption on the back of this photograph reads: "Eight of the Sales force of the Gisholt Machine Company. (Refused!)" It was made by "J.H.N." A line of e...

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