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| 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 17 1936 |
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| Description: | Front side of the first unemployment check issued in Wisconsin to Neils B. Ruud. |
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| Description: | Man sitting outdoors surrounded by children on Pulaski Street. |
| Date: | 12 09 1933 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 11 20 1933 |
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| Description: | Unemployed men stand in line for CWA (Civil Works Administration) jobs, inside the Public Employment Office, 111 W. Main Street. |
| 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. |
| 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: | 1933 |
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| 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... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 05 18 1936 |
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| Description: | A Works Progress Administration (WPA) crew at work laying a stone terrace in Stevens Point. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Opening ceremonies for a Work Progress Administration (WPA) exhibit at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| 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: | 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 1935 |
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| Description: | Sewing project for Milwaukee County women to make and repair clothing for relief families. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Civil Conservation Camp (CCC), tentatively identified as the Bloomington camp. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Civil Conservation Corps (CCC) camp at Scott Lake. |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 06 01 1965 |
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| Description: | Members of the Madison Chapter of Women in Community Service, Inc. gathered around a long table. They will be conducting screening interviews of applicants... |
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