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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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C.W.A. Pay Station

Date: 12 09 1933
Description: Men crowd around the newly opened Dane County C.W.A. Pay Station at the corner of West Dayton and North Carroll Streets to pick up paychecks.
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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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Goodyear Service Employees and NRA Sign

Date: 08 01 1933
Description: Group portrait of 13 Goodyear Service employees. Includes one woman, and nine men in uniform, posing in front of a store window with an NRA (National Recov...
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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.
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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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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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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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Arthur J. Altmeyer

Date: 1963
Description: Arthur J. Altmeyer standing in front of the Social Security Administration Headquarters. In 1973 the building was renamed the Altmeyer Building in his hono...
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Deer Check Station

Date: 11 1976
Description: At a Department of Natural Resources deer check station, a man is inspecting a buck tied to the top of a trailer. The other man is standing by the truck wa...
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Government Truck

Date: 02 21 1928
Description: A man is sitting in the driver's seat of a government truck. The sign painted on the door reads: "Bureau of Fire, Alarm, and Telegraph, F.D.N.Y."
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Public Service Commission Meeting

Date: 03 16 1954
Description: Public Service Commission members are sitting around a long table before papers, taking up a proposal for a rate increase for the Madison Bus Company. A fe...
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James L. Karns

Date: 03 30 1959
Description: A man is pointing at his name and job title which were recently painted onto the frosted glass of his office door. The man was James L. Karns on his first ...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Day by day — A new chapter in pioneer history!

Date: 07 14 1935
Description: Newspaper article in The Milwaukee Journal on Arville Schaleben and his coverage as a reporter/photographer on the colonists moving from Wisconsin a...

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