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Auto License Bureau
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Wisconsin Auto License Bureau Card Typing Department, located at 16-20 East Doty Street. Women government employees are sitting at desks, while a male supervisor and Secretary of State Fred Zimmerman, the government official then responsible for issuing Wisconsin drivers licenses, stand in the background. The state of Wisconsin issued its first drivers license in 1905. The only decoration in this sterile workplace is a license plate with the slogan "America's Dairyland."
May 17, 1939
Waste, Elwin G., 1902-1957
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WHi 14425
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Auto License Bureau
May 17, 1939
Wisconsin Auto License Bureau, 16-20 E. Doty Street, Card Typing Department, with women at typewriters and male supervisor.
Issuing Hunting License
1934
Man at the counter of office in Dane County where clerk, Selma Fjelstad, is issuing a hunting license.
Governor Heil Signing Bill
May 3, 1939
Governor Julius P. Heil sitting at his desk signing a bill, with four men standing and looking on.
Governor Heil Signing Bill
May 3, 1939
Governor Julius P. Heil sitting at his desk signing a bill, with four men looking on from behind.
Zimmerman and Brayton
May 27, 1941
Secretary of State Fred R. Zimmerman and Robert "Bob" Brayton, Public Relations Director or the American Automobile Association. They are standing in front of a map in the Rotunda of the Wisconsin ...
Perry Brown Dress Window
September 22, 1939
Four mannequins in Kessenich's window wearing Perry Brown dresses, with hats, gloves, and purses. 201-203 State Street.
