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| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Arthur J. Altmeyer, a key figure in the creation of the United States Social Security system. Altmeyer was a student of John R. Commons at UW-M... |
| Date: | 12 02 |
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| Description: | Jobless workers in the Vocational School class working on their crafts projects, O.W. Smith, Lewis A. Russett, Rudolph Beckman. |
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| Description: | A man, standing with a sack on a scale, and a woman, also holding a sack, are each holding one fist up in the air. The woman's sack reads: "Queremos pan ti... |
| Date: | 04 03 1915 |
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| Description: | Newspaper illustration of a man carrying a bedroll standing near railroad tracks and a sign that reads: "Warning, Private Property, Keep Off." The caption ... |
| Date: | 09 2013 |
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| Description: | The bronze and plaster sculpture by George Segal depiciting five men waiting in a bread line at a door. The sculpture is on the rooftop garden of the Madis... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| 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, ... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | View of the atrium of Milwaukee's City Hall with a crowd of people gathered to register for unemployment compensation. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | As part of a Wisconsin unemployment project, workmen dig a sewer trench by hand for the city of Spooner. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Opening ceremonies for a Work Progress Administration (WPA) exhibit at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster for a Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) march against racist unemployment, taking place March 20, 1971, in Washington, D.C., and Sacramento, C... |
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| Description: | Man sitting outdoors surrounded by children on Pulaski Street. |
| Date: | 08 17 1936 |
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| Description: | Front side of the first unemployment check issued in Wisconsin to Neils B. Ruud. |
| Date: | 08 17 1936 |
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| Description: | Neils Ruud, 824 E. Dayton Street, receiving the first unemployment compensation check issued in Wisconsin from Voyta Wrabetz, chairman of the state industr... |
| Date: | 08 1932 |
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| Description: | A worker from International Harvester's McCormick Works is with his wife and children in a city garden sponsored by the company. The gardens were located n... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | National Youth Administration workers cutting stone in the quarry near the Grignon House. A sign behind the group of boys says: USA Work Program." |
| Date: | 02 1932 |
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| Description: | Engraving by Charles Silver to mark the passage of Wisconsin's Unemployment Compensation Law, the first in the nation. |
| Date: | 01 28 1932 |
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| Description: | Governor Philip F. La Follette signing unemployment insurance law. Left to right: Henry Ohl Jr., Mrs. Elizabeth Brandeis-Raushenbusch, Paul Raushenbusch, ... |
| Date: | 01 1935 |
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| Description: | Sewing project for Milwaukee County women to make and repair clothing for relief families. |
| Date: | 08 1932 |
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| Description: | Mother and her two daughters at work in the McCormick Works community garden. The garden was one of several factory gardens created under International Har... |
| Date: | 07 1932 |
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| Description: | Man bending over to pick vegetables in the West Pullman Works' community garden. The garden was one of several factory gardens created under International ... |
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