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Madison Social Security Office Manager
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Sydney S. Miller, manager of the Madison Social Security Office, shares a 1950 government-issued booklet explaining a program to employers of household workers who will be brought into the system at the start of the next year, to members of the Woman's Club who will aid in the distribution of the booklet. The women in the picture are (left to right): Mrs. W.D. Laura Mack, Mrs. Everett W. (Frances) Rowe, Mrs. George L. (Edna) Joachim, and Mrs. J.E. (Marion) Goetz.
October 8, 1950
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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