Photograph
First Unemployment Check in Wisconsin
| Neils Ruud, 824 E. Dayton Street, receiving the first unemployment compensation check issued in Wisconsin from Voyta Wrabetz, chairman of the state industrial commission. Also shown is Edwin Witte, university economist and author of the national social security act, Professor John Commons, university economist, and Ruud's employer H.H. Brockhausen. |
| Image ID: | 3491 |
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| Creation Date: | 08 17 1936 |
| Creator Name: | Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 |
| City: | Madison |
| County: | Dane |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Classified File |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | CF 665 |
| Original Dimensions: | 8 x 5 inches |
| Unemployment |
| Special days |
| Men |
| Public welfare |
| Pensions |
| Public officers |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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