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Works Projects Administration at the Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 1938
Description: Fair-goers stand in line to enter the W.P.A. Exhibit tent at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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John Byrnes Puzzles Over Proxmire Data

Date: 1958
Description: John Byrnes, Republican Senator from Wisconsin, puzzles over a chart of data introduced by William Proxmire, Democratic Senator from Wisconsin. The second ...
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Arthur J. Altmeyer Awarded an Honorary LL.D Degree

Date: 06 02 1939
Description: Arthur J. Altmeyer was awarded an honorary LL.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin.

Men who received degrees from the University of Wisconsin are, ...

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Joseph Mitchell Speaks on Curtailing Welfare Program

Date: 11 17 1961
Description: Newburgh, N.Y. City Manager Joseph Mitchell, pictured here, gave a talk to University of Wisconsin Conservation Club about reducing federal and state welfa...
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Portrait of Edwin E. Witte

Date: 1931
Description: Edwin Witte in his office as chief of the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Service (1922-1933). Edwin Witte worked for social welfare programs most of his l...
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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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Governor Philip F. La Follette

Date: 11 24 1931
Description: Governor Philip F. La Follette delivers a special message on welfare relief to a special session of the legislature in the assembly chamber of the Wisconsi...
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First Governor's Conference on Aging Population

Date: 05 26 1956
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...
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Sydney S. Miller

Date: 03 14 1945
Description: Portrait of Sydney S. Miller, manager of the Madison field office of the United States Social Security Administration.
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Edwin E. Witte

Date: 1928
Description: Portrait of Edwin Witte, chief of the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Service from 1922-1933.

While the executive director of the President's Committee o...

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Richard Buckley, Director of City-County Alcohlism Information and Referral Center

Date: 08 27 1965
Description: Richard Buckley is hired as the new director of the City-County Alcoholism Information and Referral Center. Buckley comes to Madison from Omaha, Nebraska.
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Empty Stocking Club

Date: 12 12 1950
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...
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C.D. Lehman Receiving Certificate

Date: 06 28 1945
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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Community Welfare Council Heads

Date: 05 17 1961
Description: Group portrait of new board members and officers of the Community Welfare Council of Madison. Standing, left to right: Marygold Melli, Aleen Plater, and Ra...
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Mayor at Second Report Luncheon

Date: 10 25 1957
Description: Several United Givers' Fund officials are shown discussing this year's campaign during the second report luncheon at Hotel Loraine. Left to right are: John...
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Jewish Welfare Meeting

Date: 05 08 1957
Description: Mrs. N.J. Sudow (right) has annually served as hostess for the Initial Gifts luncheon to launch a Madison Jewish Welfare Fund drive. In the photo she visit...
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Foster Parents

Date: 01 29 1957
Description: Dr. Hertha Tarrasch, center, psychiatrist, spoke to the foster parents, telling them about emotional problems of children. Dr. Tarrasch, who is consulting ...
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Foster Parents

Date: 01 29 1957
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...
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Optimists Clubs Support Plan Aiding Hard-to-Reach Youth

Date: 12 29 1958
Description: A check for $400 is being handed over to the State Department of Public Welfare by the Associated Optimists Clubs to help in a study of "hard-to-reach yout...
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Arthur J. Altmeyer with Three Men

Date: 10 31 1968
Description: Arthur J. Altmeyer, sitting, with Mr. Hendricks, Jim MacMurray and Byron E. Goetz, all Regional Commissioners of Social Security, at a meeting.

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