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First Unemployment Check in Wisconsin
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Neils Ruud, 824 E. Dayton Street, receiving the first unemployment compensation check issued in Wisconsin from Voyta Wrabetz, chairman of the state industrial commission. Also shown is Edwin Witte, university economist and author of the national social security act, Professor John Commons, university economist, and Ruud's employer H.H. Brockhausen.
August 17, 1936
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972
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First Wisconsin Unemployment Check
August 17, 1936
Front side of the first unemployment check issued in Wisconsin to Neils B. Ruud.
Registering for Unemployment Compensation
1936
View of the atrium of Milwaukee's City Hall with a crowd of people gathered to register for unemployment compensation.
Wisconsin Industrial Commissioners
July 1, 1936
Administration of Wisconsin's unemployment insurance law is in the hands of l to r: Harry Lippart, director of employment service; Industrial Commissioners Harry McLogan, Peter Napiecinski, Voyta W...
