Photograph
CUNA Ground Breaking
| Officers of Credit Union National Association, Inc. (CUNA) and city and state officials at the ground breaking ceremony for a new international credit union headquarters, 1617 Sherman Avenue. The building will be a tribute to Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant and philanthropist, whose portrait is displayed at center. George B. Schaus, president of the employees credit union at Swift and Co., South St. Paul, Minnesota, is digging with a shovel. Others in the front row are, left to right: John E. Eidam, Omaha, president of CUNA; Wisconsin Governor Oscar Rennebohm; Leonard Howell, Madison City Manager; William Reid, New York, chairman of the board of trustees; Thomas Doig, (partially hidden) Madison, managing director of CUNA; and Moses C. Davis, Atlanta, Georgia, president of the CUNA Mutual Insurance Society. A Mutual Insurance Society. |
| Image ID: | 60373 |
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| Creation Date: | 07 30 1949 |
| Creator Name: | Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 |
| City: | Madison |
| County: | Dane |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Arthur M. Vinje photographs and negatives, circa 1914-circa 1962 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | negative, original |
| Original Format Number: | PH 6442.2693 |
| Original Dimensions: | 5 x 4 inches |
| Published in the Wisconsin State Journal on July 31, 1949. |
| Suits (Clothing) |
| Portraits |
| Men |
| Women |
| Outdoor photography |
| Clothing and dress |
| Shovels |
| Credit unions |
| Rites and ceremonies |
| Businessmen |
| Governors |
| Public officers |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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