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Public Health Nursing Week

Date: 04 16 1947
Description: Public Health Nursing Week. Miss Agnes Moroney of the third district unit of Wisconsin State Organization of Public Health Nursing and supervising nurse at...
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Gemini Interview

Date: 08 17 1965
Description: NBC News broadcaster Merrill Mueller interviewing Lockheed engineer Bud Zeller about the Gemini Agena Target Vehicle. The interview was part of a public re...
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Madison Public Library Bookmobile

Date: 07 11 1957
Description: Interior of Madison Public Library's new bookmobile. Librarian Doris Cruger is sitting at the desk inside Madison Public Library's new bookmobile. Standing...
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Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction Oath Ceremony

Date: 07 02 1961
Description: The new Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Angus B. Rothwell, gives a brief speech after taking the oath of office at the Wisconsin Stat...
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Public Service Commission Member Wildon F. Whitney

Date: 04 06 1947
Description: Wildon F. Whitney taking the oath of office as a member of Public Service Commission from Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman.
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George E. Watson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction

Date: 07 08 1949
Description: George E. Watson, Wauwatosa, at left, being sworn in as the new State Superintendent of Public Instruction, by Robert C. Zimmerman, Assistant Secretary of ...
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Public Library

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Description: View across street toward the facade of the Watertown Public Library. The Neoclassical style informs elements of the building, including the porch, pedimen...
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Governor's Citizens Committee on Public Welfare

Date: 08 09 1936
Description: Outdoor group portrait of fourteen people who make up the Governor's Citizens Committee on Public Welfare. They are posed front of a building at the Northe...
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Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction Oath Ceremony

Date: 07 03 1961
Description: Angus B. Rothwell, right, is sworn into office as the new Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction by Supreme Court Justice George Currie at th...
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Worker at Milwaukee Public Library

Date: 1958
Description: Construction worker at a conference on economic problems at the Milwaukee Public Library. The subject is Albert Pearson.
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Portrait of Wilbur J. Cohen

Date: 1956
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Wilbur J. Cohen, probably during his time as a Professor in Public Welfare Administration, School of Social Work, at the Univers...
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John J. Beggs

Date: 05 27 1921
Description: Quarter-length portrait of John J. Beggs, Milwaukee public utilities executive.
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Banquet Honoring Henry O'Leary

Date: 10 30 1961
Description: On the right is Henry J. O'Leary, who is being honored for his service as chief of the rates and research division of the state Public Service Commission. ...
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Madison Public Library Bookmobile

Date: 07 11 1957
Description: Exterior view of the new Madison Public Library bookmobile parked in front of the City-County building on Monona Boulevard.
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Wilbur J. Cohen, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

Date: 1968
Description: Wilbur J. Cohen, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, standing at a podium smiling and holding up both hands.
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New Welfare Unit Appointed

Date: 04 17 1959
Description: Portrait of Frank Newgent who has been named chief of community services in the State Department of Public Welfare's division of children and youth.
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State Budget Hearing

Date: 02 07 1961
Description: An over-all view of the Legislature's 15-member Finance Committee conducting public hearings on the governor's budget recommendations.
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Wisconsin State Superintendent of Public Instruction Oath Ceremony

Date: 07 02 1961
Description: The new Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction Angus B. Rothwell and his first assistant Russell Lewis posing with their wives at the reception fol...
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Altmeyer at Inter-American Conference on Social Security

Date: 1951
Description: Arthur Altmeyer speaking at the Inter-American Conference on Social Security, which took place in Buenes Aires. Eva Peron is seated to his left, wearing he...
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Milwaukee Public School Board Walk Out

Date: 01 21 1964
Description: Lloyd Barbee, NAACP state president, walking out of a Milwaukee Public School Board meeting when Chairman Harold W. Story refused to allow the participatio...

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