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Drawing

Barman — Bob

Date: 1932
Description: Bob bartending at the Press Grill.
Photograph

Charles Palmeri Receives Check

Date: 11 03 1934
Description: Charles Palmeri, aka Pasquale, in an apron, receives a check from James Lewis, Special Deputy representing the street banking commission, to settle his acc...
Photograph

Alimony Payment

Date: 09 19 1958
Description: County worker collects alimony payment from an ex-husband.
Photograph

Hugh Flannery Receives $100 War Bond

Date: 01 29 1945
Description: With a backdrop of celebrity portrait photographs and stacks of coins on his desk, Hugh Flannery, manager of the Orpheum Theatre, is receiving a $100 War B...
Photograph

CUNA Officers Opening Bank Cans

Date: 05 09 1938
Description: Four CUNA (Credit Union National Association) officers, including Roy Bergengren, open can banks in the Credit Union National Association office at the Rai...
Photograph

Farmer Receiving Corn-Hog Check

Date: 07 30 1934
Description: Large group of Dane County farmers, standing in the Dane County Agent's office, holding checks. They are surrounding Floyd Stubley.
Photograph

Levitan Receives Tax Vouchers

Date: 06 15 1932
Description: Sol Levitan, Wisconsin State Treasurer, receives $750,000 in tax vouchers from a Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad executive.
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.
Photograph

Fred Zimmerman, Wisconsin Secretary of State

Date: 02 02 1944
Description: Fred Zimmerman, Wisconsin Secretary of State, holding three checks dated January 31, 1944. The checks are payable to First Wisconsin National Bank, Milwau...
Photograph

Wisconsin Banking Commission

Date: 11 05 1944
Description: Members of the Wisconsin Banking Commission shown examining a State Historical Society collection of coins and currency, and bank notes signed by some of W...
Photograph

Employee Receiving Paycheck

Date: 1945
Description: Lorraine Gray collecting her pay in cash at the paymaster's office at the RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division of Ray-O-Vac located in the 1400 ...
Photograph

Payday at Truck

Date: 01 20 1927
Description: A group of men line up for their pay at an armored International Model 63 truck used by the City of New York Department of Finance. The truck is guarded by...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Madison Bugle-American

Date: 09 16 1970
Description: Cover of "The Madison Bugle-American," an underground newspaper, featuring a cartoon of a businessman holding a leashed dog, a woman in a lounge dress smok...
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

Charity Contribution Container in Sheriff's Office

Date: 02 04 1949
Description: Sheriff Herman P. Kerl, and Sally Penfield, with the four-gallon glass bottle for collecting donations to the "State Journal" Empty Stocking club, the Kidd...
Photograph

Payday for Field Workers on Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: A manager pays a field worker on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Mr. Monroe paying the field workers."
Photograph

Workers in Line to Receive Pay on Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: A line of workers forms in front of a table on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. The workers are waiting to collect their payroll checks...
Photograph

Character Portrait of Robert Bloch and Harold Gauer

Date: 
Description: This photograph of Bloch and Gauer was taken to illustrate Capital and Labor working together.
Photograph

Character Portrait of Robert Bloch and Harold Gauer

Date: 
Description: Political photograph of Bloch and Gauer in costume taken to illustrate Capital and Labor working together.
Photograph

NAACP and UPWA

Date: 1960
Description: Donald Hankins (third from the right), president of United Packinghouse Workers Local 569, hands a $500 check for an NAACP life membership to Arthur Johnso...

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