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| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Father James Groppi speaking at a demonstration at the Wisconsin State Capitol Assembly Chamber protesting welfare cuts. Father Groppi is seated on the lef... |
| Date: | 01 13 1965 |
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| Description: | Toddlers looking into the camera with tears in their eyes. They were found abandoned at the Central YWCA. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | This building, on an entire block of Spaight and Brearly Streets with Lake Monona, was originally the governor's mansion for Leonard J. Farwell. The Farwel... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of St. Clara's Orphanage, which was built in 1882 and run by the Felecian Sisters. |
| Date: | 03 19 1944 |
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| Description: | USO-Travelers Aid award ceremony featuring Katheryn Heringer, medical social worker at the Bureau of Handicapped Children and Orthopedic Hospital; Lieut. J... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A crew of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) youth starting for the field where they were working on ribes eradication as part of the effort to defeat the w... |
| Date: | 06 28 1945 |
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| Description: | C.D. Lehman, superintendent of the State Public School, Sparta, receiving a certificate of service from Herman A. Kloppmann, board president, with A.W. Bay... |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Sisters' House, Academy and Orphanage Van Buren St." Three trees stand in front of the building. A woman is in front left of center, and tw... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | This building, on an entire block of Spaight and Brearly Streets with Lake Monona, was originally the governor's mansion for Leonard J. Farwell. The Farwel... |
| Date: | 12 12 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Leslie (Luella) Morris and Allen Zoeller check for children's names in the "Holiday Exchange," a filing system which serves as a clearing house for th... |
| Date: | 05 23 1951 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of women of the Nakoma Welfare League gathered in the yard of the home of Mrs. E.J. (Hazel) Kallevang, 4130 Iroquois Drive, for the annual sp... |
| Date: | 10 16 1951 |
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| Description: | Two-year-old "Jane" (not her real name), is one of the many foster children helped by the United Givers' Fund. More than nine hundred volunteer workers are... |
| Date: | 03 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Dane County Home (also known as the "poor house" or "poor farm") is pictured as it is being torn down. It was built in 1855 and located o... |
| Date: | 05 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Jack Schwartz of Roxbury holding a 3-month-old baby girl on her lap. The child is one of the nearly 60 foster children that Mrs. Schwartz has cared fo... |
| Date: | 05 26 1956 |
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| Description: | Discussing plans for the First Governor's Conference on an Aging Population are Governor Walter Kohler; Minnetta Hastings, chairman of the committee on the... |
| Date: | 01 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Dorothy Waite, Assistant Director of Wisconsin Division for Children & Youth, Department of Public Welfare. |
| Date: | 01 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Two officers of the Madison Women's club serve refreshments to two foster parents. They are Marie Oakey, chairman of the Women's Club social service depart... |
| Date: | 01 29 1957 |
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| Description: | The original caption states: "Foster parents from Dane County met for a get-together sponsored by the foster home committee of the Community Welfare Counci... |
| Date: | 06 11 1958 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Kurt Hentschel of Verona look at wedding pictures of their foster daughter, Betty, who lived with them for five years before her marriage to R... |
| Date: | 11 07 1958 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Joan Miller, 1958 social welfare aide chairman of Red Cross services to military and veterans. She heads the volunteer unit which helps the Red... |
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