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| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A welfare demonstration led by Father James Groppi (center) in the Wisconsin Assembly chambers. |
| 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: | 02 1935 |
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| Description: | People receiving fish at a relief station in the wintertime. |
| 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... |
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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: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Fair-goers stand in line to enter the W.P.A. Exhibit tent at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 06 18 1958 |
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| Description: | Three women who attended the Foster Mothers of Dane County tea at the Wisconsin executives mansion. Pictured are Margaret Straub, head resident at Blessed ... |
| Date: | 02 1932 |
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| Description: | Engraving by Charles Silver to mark the passage of Wisconsin's Unemployment Compensation Law, the first in the nation. |
| Date: | 05 28 1956 |
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| Description: | Transportation is often a problem for the older population. The Council of Jewish Women has arranged a transportation group to take older Jewish persons to... |
| Date: | 05 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Three of the eight women who attended the Initial Gifts luncheon to launch a Madison Jewish Welfare Fund drive. From the left are Frances Weinstein, Virgin... |
| Date: | 05 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Ida Kittleson in her Spaight Street home. She has been active in several organizations, including the Humane Society, Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Kiddie... |
| Date: | 11 05 1965 |
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| Description: | Portrait of social worker Helen Hilton, 1919 U.W. graduate, taken upon her retirement from the city welfare department. She had worked more than 40 years a... |
| 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: | 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: | 11 10 1905 |
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| Description: | A group of people are in a motorboat, named "Quo Vadis,, in the lake in front of St. Joseph's orphan asylum. Caption reads: "St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, Gr... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 10 08 1950 |
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| Description: | Sydney S. Miller, manager of the Madison Social Security Office, shares a 1950 government-issued booklet explaining a program to employers of household wor... |
| Date: | 06 18 1958 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin's first lady, Helen Thomson (left), greets three of the foster mothers who were honored at a tea in the executive mansion. Being greeted are Evel... |
| Date: | 06 18 1958 |
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| Description: | Three members of the Woman's Club of Madison that presided at the tea for foster mothers of Dane county at the Wisconsin executives' mansion. Pictured are ... |
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