Social Security History

Chapter 2: Flat Files

photo of flat-drawer filing cabinet

The Flat Filing Cabinet contains an assorted mixture of over-sized items that do not fit easily into standard file folders, such as posters and artifacts of various kinds.

Drawer #1

Calculator/Calendar – Deputy Commissioner’s Citation 12/6/2005
Rubber Stamp – “Social Security Building Baltimore 35 Maryland”
Employee Social Security Record for Henry E. Pitts
Postcard – “I’ve got my social security – what I need right now is relief.”
Wallet Card - Contribution rates for social security & railroad retirement 1972 - 2 copies
Wallet Card – General Schedule for Pay Scale 1973
Postcard Form – Request for Statement of Earnings (~1974)
Print of original design of Social Security Card – Possible reproduction
Slide Calculator circa 1940 – Federal Old Age & Survivors Insurance Benefits – designed by the Metropolitan life Insurance Company.
Negative copy of Richard Randall Jr.’s Social Security Card
Negative copy of Americo Eriquezzo’s Social Security Card
Negative copy of application for Social Security Account for Mr. Eriquezzo
Negative copy of Fred Novarro’s Social Security Card
Negative copy of Nathan Gordam’s Social Security Card
Original application for Social Security Account for Claud Leavells from 1937
Social Security Card & pamphlet for John D. Sweeny 1963
Pamphlet – “Your new Social Security law report” 1958
Pocket Slide “Social Security” 1937
Pocket Slide Wheel 1954 revised benefits
Pocket Slide Wheel 1958 Social Security Guide
Book – Social Security Time Book – Jan. 1, 1945
Ruler, wooden – ‘Card Measuring Scale’
Check – copy of first payment check made to Ida M. Fuller
Postcard, modern – WWII Rosie, “We can do it!”
Button – ‘I am a Social Security Notch Baby and I vote – 1917-1921’
Mini-DVD – ‘Make a Difference in people’s lives and your own.” SSA careers – promotional give away item acquired by Larry DeWitt at a conference
Postcard – Possible reproduction – partially nude lady ‘Social Security’ 30s or 40s
U.S. Navy Speakers Guide 2/11/53
Book – Wage-Hour Social Security Time Book
Text Label – FDR/Clinton using the same signing pen information
Litterbag, plastic – “Social Security Helping you Prepare for the Future”
Ashtray, silver – “Phila. Payment Center 25th Anniversary 1942-1967”
Social Security Card Account Pamphlet 1961, donated by Rona Blumenthal
Social Security Card Account Pamphlet 1956, Lulu Blanche Roberts
Postcard - Blank Social Security card
Wallet Card – Contribution rates Social Security & Railroad Retirement 1976
Wallet Card – Contribution rates Social Security & Railroad Retirement 1966
Wallet Card – Contribution rates Social Security & Railroad Retirement 1966
Wallet Card – Contribution rates Social Security & Railroad Retirement 1974
Wallet Card – Contribution rates Social Security & Railroad Retirement 1974
Wallet Card – Contribution rates Social Security & Railroad Retirement 1974
Wallet Card – Contribution rates Social Security & Railroad Retirement 1972
Wallet Card – Contribution rates Social Security & Railroad Retirement 1972
Wallet Card – Contribution rates Social Security & Railroad Retirement 1972
Wallet Card – Contribution rates Social Security & Railroad Retirement 1972
Wallet Card – Contribution rates Social Security & Railroad Retirement 1967
Wallet Card – Contribution rates Social Security & Railroad Retirement 1967
Wallet Card – Contribution rates Social Security & Railroad Retirement 1967
Wallet Card – Contribution rates Social Security & Railroad Retirement 1976
Wallet Card – Contribution rates Social Security & Railroad Retirement 1977
Russell Soundex Code – Printed on cardboard
Social Security Trivia Keychain cards
Button – Social Security 65th Anniversary
Door Plaque – Social Security Administration
Newspaper Clippings, cartoons about criminals and Social Security payment 1936
Book, paperback – Social Security record book – heavily damaged
Letter – Jung Young Wet Wash of 426 East 109th St, NYC - list of employees and their social security numbers dated from October 1939.
Text Label – DHEW Flag and DHEW Seal information
Holy Bible – dated 1856 Wilbur Cohen’s family bible that he used for his swearing in as chairman National Commission on Unemployment Compensation.
Pin – Commissioner’s Team Award (Silver) 2002
Pin – Commissioner’s Team Award (Gold) 2002
Pin – Social Security 65th Anniversary
Pin – Social Security 50th Anniversary
Plexiglas display of Non-Official Social Security Cards
Letters of Correspondence between David Gogol of Sagamore Associates and Shirley Chater Commissioner of SS about the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic games and the stamped envelope given to SSA by Sagamore Associates which is now in the historical archives.
Ruler, wooden – ‘Card Measuring Scale’ w/ name Downey written on tape strip
SSA Lifesaver’s Candy for Chief of Staff Brain D. Coyne 1994-2001
Buttons – Social Security 50th Anniversary (2 buttons)
Knife – stripping knife with taped handle
Bookmark – Electronic Records Express, March 2007 – 5 copies
Text Label – Distribution of Expenditures fiscal years 1987-88
Text Label – Combined Statement of Financial Position as of Sep. 30 1987-86
Text Label – Pres. Kennedy signs 1961 SS Amendments
Box Lid for Pen that Pres. Clinton used to sign Ticket to Work
Decal – window sticker “Social Security Administration”
Armband? – Operation Medicare Alert – Feb.-March, 1966
Metal Sign – John J. Callahan Acting Commissioner of Social Security
Text Label – 1983 Greenspan Commission
Text Label, w/ Plexiglas – Bronze FDR bust
Check – copy of check given to Ida Fuller, encased in Plexiglas
Candles – 2 candles used during the Morning Prayer service for the workers killed in the Oklahoma City bombing.
Pens – 2 pens marked socialsecurity.gov/employer in blue plastic case.
Stick of Matches – Social Security Benefits for your Family advertisement
Rubber Stamp – Signature stamp for ‘_______ Merriam’ (can’t read first name)
Unofficial SS Card – Brass metal card belonging to William Paul Morris
Unofficial SS Card – Brass metal card belonging to Porter Bert Ingle – w/ wallet
Forms – Pad of blank Route Slip forms – 8-67
Forms – Pad of blank Routing and Transmittal Slip – 1984
Book – Visit to the United States Senate (96th Congress) May 24, 1979
Brochure – Social Security 60th Anniversary – 93 copies
Pen – Presidential Pen – First Executive Order signed by Nixon establishing Council on Urban Affairs – Jan. 23, 1969
Book – Social Security Record Book, 1937-47 Press-Union Newspapers
Text Label – Pres. Bush signs legislation requiring annual SS statements, 1989
Pen – Annex Ribbon Cutting 2002 (2 pens)
Pen – Social Security Admin. Tucson, AZ – Millennium 2000 w/ box
Pen – Associate Commissioner’s Citation Dec. 3, 2002
Pin – Social Security 65th Anniversary
Button – SSA Savings Bond Campaign, 2001
Card – Joke certificate for membership into imaginary club Kappa Mu Alpha – for those nearing retirement – circa 1965
Booklet – New Medicare & Social Security Benefits – Bankers Life Co. 1967
Postcard – “Here it is” Social Security in ‘Z-E-E’ Pink
Wallet Card – Contribution Rates Social Security & Railroad Retirement 1966
Postcard w/ envelope – 1940 Card has tiny lady’s underwear attached to it
Bookmark – US Savings Bond Campaign SSA, 2001
Forms - Travel Memo blank forms – circa 1950/60s
ID Badge – FSA ID badge for William L Mitchell
Pencil – Unsharpened HCFA.gov/Medicare.gov pencil
Button – “Security is our middle name” Social Security Administration - 2 copies
Text Label – The 1932 Elections
Photo – Printed on cardboard – aerial view of destroyed OK City federal building
Photo – Printed on cardboard – close up view of destroyed OK City building
Photo – Printed on cardboard – workers added names of dead to marble wall
Button – oversized button commemorating the 60th Anniversary of SSA
T-Shirt – “God Bless America – Never Forget Sep. 11, 2001” size small
Bumper Stickers – “Proud to say I’m SSA” 3 copies
Brochure – National Performance Review – SSA welcomes VP Al Gore, Monday, June 6, 1994 Altmeyer Auditorium, Admission by ticket only
Envelope – 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games ‘First Day of Issue’
Card (perhaps sticker) – SSA 60th Anniversary
Pin – Social Security Candler Building 1936-1960
Magnet – SSA logo w/ website address, blue background
Postcard – Social Security Building Woodlawn – circa 1960s
Letter – hand written letter to SSA from Ida M. Fuller, 1966
CD-ROM – Crossroads: The Future of Entitlements in America
Button – Dr. Martin Luther King 1992
Photo – Police and firefighters helping victims of OK City Bombing
Letter – Type written letter from O.C. Pogge (copy of original) w/ OASI pin
Ruler, wooden – ‘Card Measuring Scale’
Framed Stamps – Set of 4 stamps commemorating the Social Security Act 1985
Framed Stamps – Set of 4 stamps honoring Frances Perkins
Check – oversized copy of SSA check to Joseph M Lacasse of Concord NH
Pen – Health Care Financing Administration in case
Paper weight – Diversity Conference Atlanta GA, 1998
Pin – Department of Health & Human Resources Superior Service Award w/ case
Metal Plaque Piece – Commissioner’s Citation DHEW
T-Shirt – Social Security 50th Anniversary – size medium
Mini-DVD – DCS Dedicated to Customer Service
Paper Seal – Golden embossed eagle with SSA logo in it
Mouse Pad – Phase 1 IWS/LAN 1999 “Celebrating Success”
ID Badge necklace – Purple cloth w/ white letters “SSA Diversity Training Conference 2004”
ID Badge necklace – Red cloth w/ white letters “SSA Diversity Training Conference 2004” w/ ID badge belonging to Larry DeWitt.
ID Badge necklace – Rainbow colored cloth w/ black letters “SSA Diversity Training Conference 2006”
Forms – Blank pad of Route Slip forms, 1974
Metal Work Record File – Grey metal “Springfield & Litchfield Il.”
Metal Work Record File – Tan metal “Field Rep work Report”

Drawer #2 Flags & Banners

Plexiglas – 3 pieces of Plexiglas, each different sizes
Envelope/Stamp Set – Commemorative series of stamps and envelopes about famous women in history. Included are: Dr. Mary Walker, Helen Keller & Anne Sullivan, Emily Bissell, Edith Wharton, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Abigail Adams. Each envelope is attached to a sheet.
Sketches – Series of sketches of FDR for a monument or memorial. Sent to Larry DeWitt from artist Jerry Dadds.
Placemats? – Information about Social Security, maybe 1950/60s 4 copies
Concept Art – painting for park garden determining placement of flower species
Bookmark Mold – Original mold for making an embossed social security bookmark
Flag – Oklahoma State flag provided for display at OKC bombing memorial at Social Security Headquarters. Stored in cardboard box.
Display on SSA account application forms 1936 – forms were glued to each other and to Plexiglas – display has been dismantled and awaits restoration/preservation
Files – Disability: History of Administration – 1949 , 2 file folders
Flag – HEW flag
Banner – Spanish language version of 65th Anniversary of Social Security
Banner – Text description of an SSA employee’s account of the OKC bombing.

Drawer #3 - Executive Orders

Photo negative of EO establishing Committee on Economic Security (6757)
Photo negative of EO 6757
Paper Copy – EO 6757
Paper Copy – EO 6757 (Small)
Paper Copy – EO 6757 (Small)
Paper Copy of EO 6757 in Plexiglas case
Paper Copy of LBJ’s order to make March National Medicare Enrollment Month
Text Label – The Atlantic Charter
Paper Copy – 74th Congress –Social Security Act 1935
Paper Copy – 74th Congress –Social Security Act 1935 (larger version)
Paper Copy – 74th Congress –Social Security Act 1935 (missing second sheet)
Photo Paper Copy – 74th Congress –Social Security Act 1935 (complete Act)
Paper Copy – 74th Congress –Social Security Act 1935
Paper Copy – 74th Congress –Social Security Act 1935 reprint, slightly damaged
Paper Copy – 74th Congress –Social Security Act 1935 (missing second sheet)
Paper Copy – 74th Congress –Social Security Act 1935 contains Title II no Title I
Paper Copy – 89th Congress –Medicare 1965
Paper Copy – 89th Congress –Medicare 1965 – more complete
Printed Pages – Message from the President on advancing the nations health 1965
Paper Copy – 98th Congress –Social Security Amendments of 1983
Photo Paper Copy – 92nd Congress –Social Security Amendments of 1972
Paper Copy – 92nd Congress –Social Security Amendments 72 (only 1st page)
Cardboard Printout – Supreme Court of the United States, October Term 1936
Cardboard Copy – H.R. 9346-57 Carter signed amendments 1977 w/ b/w photo
Paper Copy – 81st Congress –Social Security Amendments of 1950
Letters – To Abe Bortz from Virginia Purdy of National Archives - 1971/74
Paper Copy – 76th Congress –Social Security Amendments 1939
Paper Copy – 90th Congress – Social Security Amendments 1967
Booklet – Message from the President Recommending Legislation on Economic Security 1935
Book – Report to the President of the Committee on Economic Security 1935
Paper Copy – 103rd Congress – Social Security Independence 1994
Andrew White Agreement and Negatives (German Documents)
Report to the President of the CES 1935, 9 negatives, 4 prints
6 Negatives – 5 are for the H.R. 13114, the 6th is of the first page of the EO establishing the CES
Paper Copy – 93rd Congress –Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973
Print – 92nd Congress –H.R. 15390 (6 pages)
Photo Paper Print – FDR letter to Congress 1934 (8 pages)
Photo Paper Prints – Constitutionality of the Social Security Act – 1937, 3 copies
Photo Paper Print – House Joint Resolution No. 22, April 22, 1909
Cardboard Print – Office of the Postmaster General, Postman to Cooperate with Social Security Board.
Paper Print – 95th Congress – Social Security Amendments of 1977
Paper Print – 106th Congress – Senior Citizens’ Freedom to Work Act of 2000
Paper Print – 92nd Congress – H.R. 9212, Black lung Benefits Act of 1972
Paper Print – 85th Congress – Social Security Amendments of 1958
Paper Print – 79th Congress – Social Security Act Amendments of 1946
Letter – Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mr. T.V. Fitzmaurice – 1962 – Glued to Plexiglas will need restoration.
Paper Print – 93rd Congress – H.R. 7445 -1973
Paper Print – 93rd Congress – H.R. 13025 – 1974
Paper Print – 93rd Congress - H.R. 11333 – 1974
Paper Print – 86th Congress – Social Security Amendments of 1960
Paper Print – H.R. 13270-251 to 13270-254
Paper Print – 82nd Congress – Social Security Act Amendments of 1952
Paper Print – 88th Congress – 1964
Paper Print – 92nd Congress – H.R. 10604, 1971
Paper Print – 93rd Congress – H.R. 13025
Letter & Document – Public Law 92-223 – sent to Abe Bortz by Virginia Purdy
Paper Print – 92nd Congress – 1972 Act to increase debt to 400 billion dollars
Paper Print – 93rd Congress – Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973
Paper Print – Select pages from Public Law 91-172, Act to reform income laws and Public Law 91-173 Act to provide for protection of coal workers

Print – 64th Congress, A Bill to provide old-age pensions – Dec, 1916
Print – Photo paper copy of various small portrait photos.
Print – Pages from a Bill- 4 pages, on white paper, one dated 1912, one encased in Plexiglas
Photo – Print of Depression era photo – door with large “Closed” sign boarded across it
Photo – Print of approaching Dust Storm in Middle West – reproduced from Library of Congress
Print – Sketch of mother of children in city with text “Cities have little room for useful work of the young and old.” – on brown paper
Prints – First Functional Chart of the Social Security Board 1935 signed by Winant – 6 prints and negatives.
Print – Laminated banner – “Guest Speaker Mr. Charles Vela”
Photo – Combined Field Manager’s Conference Denver and San Fran Regions, Coronado Hotel, San Diego, CA- Oct 27-29, 1947
Book – Federal Security Agency, Official Organizational Charts, Fiscal Year 1953- yellow book
Folder w/ Photos – Division of Field Operation, Coordination & Procedures Branch, April 1963. 5 group photos
Award – Commissioner’s Citation for SSA Library Staff, May 8, 1964
Newspaper Clipping – Political cartoon, “A Monument to Progress”
Photo – Depression era – man leaning against store front with “Coffee and Hamburgher Sandwiches” sign
Photo – Print of executive staff of the Bureau checking records placed into time capsule, July 8, 1959
Manila Envelope – Photo portrait charts and divisional and organizational charts for OASIS publication – 1980s era
Documents – Folder of Organizational Charts and Regional/Field Offices, 1939
Print – Copy of letter to the Secretary of State, D.C. from the American Embassy London, Aug. 22, 1912
Print – Functional Chart of the Social Security Board
Print – IV-D Part 2 – Part of Bill, encased in Plexiglas
Folder – Candler Building – Floor Plans of Operations – brown folder
Document – Handy Phone Location reference by Component – 06/29/01
Print – HR 7260-5 – encased in Plexiglas
Print – Part of a copy of a Bill – encased in Plexiglas
Print – HR 7260-37 – last page signed by FDR (copy)
Print – 74th Congress Title I – encased in Plexiglas
Print – HR 7260-4 Title II
Print – Chart of Regional and Field Offices and managers of FO’s, 1960s era
Photo Folder – Division of Field Operations, Management Branch, Section Meetings with Mr. McKenna, 1963 – w/ photo
Chart – large scale chart, “Evolution, Leadership, and Service Areas of Regional Offices

Newspapers 1

New York Times newspaper photocopy print 1935
Boston Evening American – photo negative ‘Further Proof of Deceit in new Payroll Tax.”
Book – Program Introduction: The Social Security Programs 1978
Photo paper Copy – Newspaper clipping of ‘Punch, Sisters, Punch with care!”
Photo paper Copy – NY Times, Supreme Court Backs Security Act, 1937
Copy of Washington Post clipping – Mike Causey, Most Popular SS Number, 1977
Newspaper Clipping, original, Social Security Open house, Aug, 16 (1960?)
Newspaper, original, NY World-Telegram, 1937
Text Display – Newspaper reprint NY Herald Tribune w/added photos B/W 1937 (2 copies)
Prints – Punch Sister article w/ 1,500 Moving into new SS Building – 1960 article
Print – Towards the Social Security Goal- NY Times 1937
Folder w/newspaper clippings – Security: Amid Confusion and Bewilderment Nation signs up for its biggest social experiment – Newsweek, vol. 8, no 22, Nov. 28, 1936 pp. 28-32
Newspaper – Meet the Brain – Sunday news, 12/18/55
Newspaper clipping with copies – Then and Now – about Frances Townsend, 1948 – original clipping, cellophane negative, and three photocopies
Newspaper clipping with copies – Social Security w/original clipping, cellophane negative and photocopies
Newspaper clipping – GOP called it a Swindle – 1985 Evening Sun
Newspaper clipping – FDR legislated a Revolution – 1985 Washington Post
Newspaper Article – Golden Anniversary of Social Security – The Sun 1985
Print – copy of New York Times 1935 – FDR signs SS Bill
Newspaper – Social Security Helping Americans Since 1935
Comic Book – Johns First Job 1956
Magazine Ad – New York life Insurance mentioning Social Security
Newspaper – The Junior Review 1935 – Roosevelt Offers Social Security Program
Newspaper – Newark Sunday Call – 1935 – FDR signs Bill
Print – copy of Newspaper about Larry and his SSA museum
Newspaper – Clipping from Evening Sun 1960 – OASI Center “City with a City hands out your money”
Newspaper – Townsend National Weekly – Aug 24, 1946
Newspaper – Townsend National Weekly – Sep. 28, 1946
Newspaper – Townsend National Weekly – Sep. 7, 1946
Newspaper – Townsend National Weekly – Aug 31, 1946
Newspaper – Townsend National Weekly – July 27, 1946
Newspaper – Townsend National Weekly – Oct. 26, 1946
Newspaper – Townsend National Weekly – Aug 17, 1946
Newspaper – Townsend National Weekly – Sep. 14, 1946
Newspaper – Townsend National Weekly – Aug 10, 1946
Newspaper – Townsend National Weekly – Nov. 30, 1946
Newspaper – Townsend National Weekly – Oct 19, 1946
Newspaper – Townsend National Weekly – Nov. 2, 1946
Newspaper – Townsend National Weekly – Oct. 12, 1946
Newspaper – Townsend National Weekly – Aug 3, 1946
Newspaper Clipping in Plexiglas – Washington Post 1937 “Advisory Council Meets Here to Study Social Security law”
Newspaper Clipping in Plexiglas – Evening Sun 1937 – Social Security
Newspaper Clipping – NY Times 1937 – Supreme Court favors SS
Print – Photo paper copy of Brave New World – criminals get SS benefits 1936
Print – Copy of Landon campaign ad, “Sentenced to weekly pay reduction”
Print – Snooping – Tagging YOU 1936 article about Federal information collecting (3 copies)
Newspaper Clipping – Baltimore News-Post 1960 ‘1,500 SS Employes move to New Home”
Print – copy of NY Times 1937 Supreme Court Backs Security Act
Newspaper – The Sun, Sep 12, 2001 ‘DEVASTATION’
Newspaper – Social Security Celebrates its 65th – Poughkeepsie Journal, 2000
Newspaper – The Evening Sun, 1977 – Carter Signs Social Security Tax Hike
Newspaper – Original clipping, NY Times 1937 – Toward the Social Security Goal
Newspaper – The Sun, Nov 7, 1965 – Men Behind Medicare
Newspaper – Atlanta Georgian 1935, Signs New Deal’s Social Security Bill
Print – Copy of NY Herald Tribune 1935 – FDR Signs Bill – in Plexiglas
Newspaper – Original, NY World Telegram 1937 – Social Security Upheld

Newspapers 2

Magazine – The Literary Digest, Oct. 13, 1934
Magazine – Newsweek, June 1, 1981 “Can you afford to retire?”
Paper Document – Baltimore Telephone Directory (front cover page)
Magazine – Modern Maturity, July-Aug, 1995 “What You Should Know About Social Security”
Magazine – Newsweek, July 3, 2000 “Lies About Social Security” (2 copies)
Pamphlet – ‘Social, but it is Security?” 1961
Print – Newspaper copy 1935 “Security Bill Becomes Law”
Magazine – Review of Reviews, Oct. 1935 “Pensions for All!”
Magazine – Humaniora, April 2000 – Danish magazine
Magazine – Scholastic, April 10, 1937 “Social Security Issue”
Magazine – Harper’s, Jan. 2002 “Thomas Frank on the Right Wing’s Lies About Social Security”
Pamphlet – Workers, how the Wage-Hour law affects you
Pamphlet – What is Social Security: A Brief Explanation of the Social Security Act, July 1940
Pamphlet – Unemployment Compensation: Some Questions and Answers, 1940
Pamphlet – How to Calculate Benefits under Federal Old Age and Survivors Insurance, 1940
Pamphlet – Washington ‘In and Out’ Guide, 1938
Newspaper Clipping – ‘Film Shows How to Register for Social Security Benefits’ encased in Plexiglas
Newspaper Clippings – Forms Mailed for Social Security, encased in Plexiglas
Magazine – Time, March 20, 1995 “The Case for Killing Social Security”
Newspaper Clipping – Prescott Courier 10-29-53 “Officials Survey Local Social Security Office”
Newspaper Clipping – La Grande Observer, April 6, 1963 “Social Security Man hails Local Building”
Newspaper Clipping – Vindicator, 6/1/67, “A Story of Courage”
Newspaper Clippings – Supreme Court Backs Security Act
Newspaper Clipping – The Honolulu Advertiser, April 28, 1949 – Bit on Ernest Tallman visiting Hawaiian SSA offices.
Newspaper Clipping and Letter – Letter to E. Tallman from Charles Cannon including clipping about Tallman’s visit to West. June 9, 1958
Newspaper Clippings – Temporary Relief in Housing Shortage Here is Reported, encased in Plexiglas
Text Display – Copies of newspaper clippings for display “Social Security Upheld” – mounted to heavy cardboard
Newspaper – The Capital Times, Nov 22, 1963 “JFK Slain” front page
Newspaper Clipping – The Capital Times, Nov 22, 1963 clipping of article continued from page 1 “Assassin Kills President Kennedy”
Newspaper Clipping – The Capital Times, Nov. 23, 1963 “Believed Scene of Assassination”
Newspaper – The Capital Times, Nov 23, 1963 “LBJ Takes over Helm of Nation”
Newspaper – The Capital Times, Nov. 25, 1963 “Sorrowing Nation Pays its Tribute to Kennedy”
Convention Flyer – 48th Convention of the California State Federation of Labor, Oct 9-13, 1950
Newspaper – the Sun, April 9, 1965 “House Approves Medicare Measure by 313 to 115”
Newspaper Clippings – “Security Act ‘Wage Fraud’ Study Asked” (3 sections)
Newspaper Clipping – “Notice: Deductions from Pay start Jan. 1”
Newspaper Clipping – “Buying Power Defined”
Newspaper Clipping – title clipping reading “State to Govern Jobless Insurance Plan”
Newspaper Clipping – “Winant Quits to Campaign for Roosevelt”
Newspaper Clipping – “President Assails Welfare Act Foes”
Newspaper Clipping – “Text of Governor Landon’s Address in Milwaukee”
Newspaper Clipping – “Fallacies Shown in Pension Law”
Newspaper Clippings – “The A B C of Social Security” 1936, 32 articles
Newspaper Clippings – “Social Security and You” 6 articles
Newspaper Clipping – “Security law Tax ‘Vicious Setup’”
Newspaper Clipping – “Age Pension Load Cripples Youth”
Newspaper Clipping – “First Payment Under Benefits for Idle Made”
Newspaper Clipping – “Workers Will Pay Own ‘Security’”
Newspaper Clipping – “Security Seekers Assured on one Item-the Tax”
Newspaper Clipping – “Workers to Bear Tax Burden”
Newspaper Clippings – “Security Act Fallacy Lies in ‘Reserves’”
Magazine – Fortune, March 1935
Magazine – Fortune, Dec. 1967 “Social Security: Drifting Off Course”
Magazine Clipping – Newspicture Weekly, Dec. 1936 “The Postman Rings Thrice and a Nation gets ‘Security’”
Newspaper Clipping – NY Times, 1965 Obituary for George H. McLain, Pension Worker and part of Townsend Movement
Print – Copy of newspaper “Roosevelt Signs the Security Bill”
Print – Copy from Christian Science Monitor(?) 1935, “U.S. Takes Big Step in Social Aid”
Magazine – The Literary Digest, June 30, 1934 “The New Deal, The Issue”
Newspaper w/ envelope – Nome Nugget, July 20, 1951 – “Alaska Social Security Administrator makes short visit to Nome”
Magazine Advertisement – Old Spice ad that mentions Social Security
Magazine – Life, Aug. 7, 1939 “Roosevelt’s McNutt”
Magazine – Fortune, July 1935
Magazine Clipping – “SSACCS-The” drawing of ‘Old Age Retirement Pensions’ on reverse.
Magazine Clipping – “Old Age: The Old in America have become a Political Force and Economic Menace”
Newspaper Clipping – Los Angeles Times, “Off to Florida for National Convention/Legion Specials Depart for East” Photo of group of Legionnaires including Ernie Tallman
Newspaper Clipping – Fairbanks Daily News, Aug. 4, 1960 “Old Age Insurance Chief Visit Here”
Newspaper Clipping – 1934, “Legionnaire Talks on Convention” article about Ernie Tallman
Newspaper Clipping – Union-Bulletin, Oct. 20, 1963 “Ernie Tallman to be Honored on Retirement”
Newspaper Clipping – Golden Gate Federal News, Oct 1948, “Bureau of Old Age and Survivor Insurance one of most Important of Security Agencies”
Newspaper Clipping – “A Plan to Abolish Poverty and Create Lasting Prosperity in America: H.R. 2841” ~1965
Prints – copies of newspaper clippings, “Vote for Landon” and Omaha Gazette “FDR Signs Security Bill”
Print – NY Times Magazine, Aug 18, 1935 “Social Security: The Foundation”
Magazine Ad – “How Social Security Benefits May Affect Your Life Insurance Planning” Prudential Insurance Company of America
Newspaper Clipping – Washington Post, Dec.12, 1934 “Townsend, Here, Plans Old Age Pension Drive”
Newspaper – The Houston Post, July 17, 1955 “Social Security”
Newspaper – Townsend National Weekly, July 14, 1939
Newspaper Clipping – Oakland Tribune, April 18, 1954 “Pension Plans Confab Topic”
Newspaper Clipping – Oakland Tribune, 4-20-54 “Private Pensions Urged For Security of Aged”
Newspaper – Townsend National Weekly, June 25, 1955
Print – Copy of NY Times, Nov 7, 2002 “The Elections”
Newspaper Clipping – Glendale News-Press, Sep. 11, 1957 “Security Services Expanded”
Newspaper Clipping – Glendale Independent, Sep 8, 1957 “Congress Economy Axe Cuts into Social Work Says Exec”
Newspaper Clipping – Glendale Independent, Sep 5, 1957, “Top Social Security Officials Tour Glendale Office; Head for Confab.”
Print – Photo Transparency of NY Times 1935 “FDR signs Bill”
Newspaper – Weekly World News, July 11, 1995 “Secret Plot to End Social Security”
Newspaper Clipping – Hilo Tribune Herald, 5/1/1963, “20 Years Government Service” Walter N Minaai presented 20 year award.
Newspaper – Atlanta Georgian, Feb. 8, 1937, “U.S. Security Plans Studied”, “Cheerful – Social Security Officials Here”
Newspaper – The Evening Star, March 3, 1933, “Gay Inaugural Visitors Throng City”, FDR coming to Presidency
Newspaper Clippings mounted on paper board – The Daily News, Aug. 19, 1958 “Social Security Hike Approved”, Journal, 8/30/1958, “Ike Signs SS Increase, 41 Other Bills”, and Eagle Pass News Guide, 12/7/1950, “New Social Security” NOTE: Fourth clipping, “Social Security Taxes” is loose and in separate envelope
Print – Copy of Newspaper page, NY Times, May 25, 1937 “Supreme Court Backs Security Act”
Print – Copy of drawing, “Old Age Retirement Pensions”
Print – Copy of Newspaper –Washington Post, May 25, 1937, “Pictorial Review of a Nation’s Quest for Social Security” and “Supreme Court Validates Security Act.”
Newspaper – Original copy of Washington Post, May 25, 1937, “Pictorial Review of a Nation’s Quest for Social Security”
Newspaper – The Baltimore Clipper, June 17, 1847
Newspaper Clipping – NY Post, Dec. 21, 1934 “Townsend in City for Dole Crusade”
Magazine Clipping – Front page of OASIS, Jan., 1956 “Dec. 7, 1955, “Area Office Chiefs and Regional Representatives Conference”
Newspaper Clipping – Gazette, 2/13/1959, “Open for Business” Ribbon cutting at new Social Security building in Woodlawn.
Documents – Townsend Plan Materials
Newspaper Clipping – Free Press, 7/29/58 “Who Wants to be Old and Poor”
Newspaper Clipping – NY Herald-Tribune, Feb. 7, 1935 “Townsend Tells How He’d Check on Pensioners”
Newspaper – The Denver Post, May 24, 1937, “Social Security Act if Upheld in Series of High court Rulings”
Newspaper – The Houston Press, May 24, 1937 “Supreme Court Approves Social Security”
Newspaper- AFL News-Reporter, Aug. 5, 1955 “All Can be Proud of Social Security Strides”
Print – Photo Negative copy of NY Times, Aug 15, 1960 – altered with image of JFK over words
Print – copy of American Institute of Public Opinion, Jan 23, 1938 “Social Security Tax Upheld by Voters in Institute Survey”
Print – Copy of Chicago Daily Tribune, Nov. 2, 1936 “The Truth About Social Security”
Newspaper Clipping – Los Angeles Times, 11/4/63 “Social Security Aide to Retire – on Pension”
Prints – Copies of Old Age Retirement Pensions cartoon – 8x11 2 copies
Print – Newspaper clipping copy – Kansas City Star, July 16, 1968 “Fiscal Boon to Stricken Family”
Newspaper Clipping – Tulsa World, 7/14/59 “It’s ‘Homecoming’ for US Official in State” Ernest Tallman article
Pamphlet – “Ernie’s Recognition Party” Nov 1, 1963 – LA, CA
Newspaper Clipping – The Washington Daily news, May 24, 1937 “Social Security Act Held Valid” encased in Plexiglas
Newspaper Clipping – Washington Herald, Nov. 15, 1939 “U.S. Security Payoff Sped for Age Group” encased in Plexiglas
Prints – Print and Negative of Boston American, Nov 2, 1936 newspaper “Here’s Proof of Deceit in Payroll Tax; Money Not Set Aside for Pensions” stored in yellow envelope
Newspaper Clipping – Washington Post, May 25, 1937 “Supreme Court Decides on Social Security Act”
Newspaper – Rocky Mountain News, Nov. 9, 1936
Prints – Two Negatives of NY Times “Supreme Court Backs Security Act” , on paper print of the same mounted to red cardboard
Print – Copy of newspaper clippings – NY Times, Nov 17, 1936 New York Postmen, First Old Age Applicant and his Home, Sweeney Jr,

Special Newspapers – Bob Ball Collection

Newspaper Clipping – “Medicare Facing Shortage of Beds” and “Social Security Chief: Robert M. Ball”
Newspaper Clipping – Washington Post National Weekly Edition, Jan 26, 1987 “The Man Who has Kept Social Security Secure”
Newspaper Clipping – Page of Washington Post and Times Herald, May 5, 1958 “Bravo! To Uncle Sam’s Staff”
Magazine Clipping – Look, 5/13/1958 “National Civil Service League 1958 Award Winners”
Newspaper Clippings – Mounted to heavy paper – “Merchant and Ball of N.J. in Top 10 Career people”, “10 Careerists to get Awards”, “Honor Awarded, Robert M. Ball”, “Picked as Tops in Civil Service”, “7 in Area Win Career Awards”, “The Federal Diary”
Newspaper Clipping – Baltimore Sun, 2/13/08 “He Was the Savior of Social Security”

Posters 1

Poster – “Notice to Employees” hung in employee’s bulletin board at NABISCO Company in Philadelphia. 1937 – Contains Original Poster, 2 Negatives (One 8x10 and one actual size), 3 actual size poster prints, and 2 8x10 prints.
Poster – Your Social Security Account – 1 “Old-Age Insurance” original
Poster – Your Social Security Account – 4 “Keep your Card” original
Poster – Your Social Security Account – 5 “Employer’s Report” original
Poster – Your Social Security Account – 6 “Your Wage Account” original
Poster – Your Social Security Account – 9 “Payment in Case of Death” One original and one copy
Letter – Letter to Sid Leibovitz from Gerald Hartwig about posters Hartwig is sending to Leibovitz. April 25, 1985
Poster – “To Aid Dependent Children” 1940
Poster – Copy print of “Social Security records are Confidential” 2 copies
Newspaper Clipping – Copy print of “Pictorial Review of a Nation’s Quest for Social Security”
Poster – Original “To Find Qualified Workers, Use Your Public Employment Office”
Poster – Original “Monthly Benefits Begin in 1940”
Poster – Original “The 1960 Amendments to the Social Security law…what the mean to you!”
Poster – Original “Beginning January 1, 1959, 25 cents More Social Security Tax on Every $100 You Earn.”
Poster – Original “Beginning January 1, 1960, 50 cents More Social Security Tax on Every $100 You Earn”
Magazine Ad – “Social Security…with no strings attached!” Advertisement for Warner’s Bras making mention of social security.
Poster – Original “National Medicare Enrollment Month, 1966”
Poster – Original “1961 Improvements in Your Social Security”
Poster – Original “Social Security…It’s more than retirement” With Native American portraits and drawings
Poster – Original “When a Miss becomes a Mrs.” 1954
Poster – Original “Now an Improved Social Security Offers Increased Protection”
Poster – Print “More Security For The American Family” (with image of elderly lady) 5 copies
Poster – Print “More Security For the American Family” (with image of elderly man)
Newspaper Clipping – Original “Making It Easy for the Public: 3 Steps to Security in Your Old Age”
Poster – Original “I’m sure glad I went to the Social Security office” Ad for Farm Workers to get cards, 1959
Poster – Original “Social Security Pays Them $100 Every Month”
Poster – Original “More Security For the American Family” 1939 (with image of mother holding baby)
Poster – Original “Railroad Employees” 1939 railroad unemployment insurance act
Magazine Ad – Original Lifesavers ad showing Social Security Card “and for extra social security after eating, drinking, smoking, etc…”
Poster – Original “Prevent Range Fires, Protect Stock and Forage” U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, 1951
Poster with map of Peoria, Ill. Stapled to back – Original “Your Social Security Account Number Card”
Poster – Original “Keep your Card” 1939
Poster – Original “Workers: Qualified men and women may be needed for defense industries in your locality…” printed by Board
Poster – Original “The U.S. Employment Service” another workers/defense industry poster by the Board
Poster – Original “Social Security & The Young Worker”
Poster – Original (mounted to foam core) “Felicita Sola-Carter Retires”
Newspaper Clippings – Homespun, 1949 “Your Social Security”, “Your Social Security Card”
Newspaper Clippings – The 807 Teamster, 1949 “Your Social Security Card is Important”
Poster – Original “Social Security 67th Anniversary” 1935-2002
Poster – Original “Social Security is a Lifetime of Protection”
Magazine Ad – Original Social Security mentioned in a Schlitz beer ad.
Poster – Original “Social Security History on the Internet”
Poster – Original “Need Help About Your Old-Age & Survivors Insurance?” 1955
Poster – Original “A Favorable Sign for Social Security Benefits” written in symbol of Venus – poster is about women getting social security benefits
Poster – Original “If You are Getting Supplemental Security Income Disability Checks…” poster about SSI, Aug 1986
Poster – Print “Don’t Lose Benefits” 7 copies
Poster – Print “Make Sure It’s Copied Right!” 4 copies
Poster – Print “Join the March to Old Age Security”
Poster – Original “Social Security…It’s More than Retirement”
Poster – Original “Good Things Come in Small Packages”
Poster – Original “Social Security’s Ticket to Work Program”
Poster – Original “Six Countries Social Security Meeting United States June 16-21, 2002” Signed by all visiting delegates and presented to Larry DeWitt by Commissioner Jo Anne Barnhart to show her appreciation for his assistance in the international meeting. Includes Letter from J.A. Barnhart to L. DeWitt
Poster – Original “Your Social Security – Disabled?” 1968, 2 copies
Poster – Original “Whatever Your Time of Life, Social Security Protects You and Your Dependents”
Poster – Original “Call Social Security” Photo of phone, 4 copies
Poster – Original “Cut Out the Middle Man…Social Security Services are Free” 1997, 5 copies
Poster – Original “Puzzled by Social Security?” 1997, 6 copies
Photo Negatives – Negatives of posters, “Social Security for Ten Million More People…are you one of them?” 2 negatives, “Your wage Account” 1 negative, and “Keep Your Card” 1 negative
Posters – Series of posters of ladies, “Julia Lathrop”, “Katherine Lenroot”, and “Grace Abbot”
Poster – Original “Your Social Security, Nearing 65?” MEDICARE poster 1968, man in wheelchair with nurse and wife
Poster – Original “Your Social Security, Nearing 65?” Retirement insurance and MEDICARE, 1968, elderly man w/ woman speaking with SS lady
Photo Negative – Negative of “Join the March” poster
Posters – Possibly Originals “Security Insurance: Now An Improved Social Security Offers Increased Protection” 1968, 2 copies
Posters – Original “Black Lung Benefits” 1970, 4 copies
Card – Original “The Social Security Act” Small card, part of a series (likely about the history of the U.S.) which discusses the Social Security of the US. Picture of “Join the March” poster on front, historical/educational text on reverse.
Poster – Original “The Road is Long. Be Sure You’re Prepared for the Trip.” 1999
Poster – Original “Social Security: A Family Protection Plan” (during 50th Anniversary) 2 copies
Poster – Original “Social Survivors, and Disability” 1968, 3 copies
Poster – Original “Your Retirement, This is the Key” 1968
Poster – Original “Social Security: A Lifetime of Protection” (during 50th Anniversary) African American man and boy, 2 copies
Poster – Original “The Atlantic Charter” 1943
Poster – Original “Social Security is a Lifetime of Protection”, head of clay
Newspaper Clipping – Original, National Container Digest, Nov. 1947, “Take Care of Your Card”
Newspaper Clipping – original “Family Benefits Under Social Security”
Display Photo – Print of Ida Fuller receiving check mounted on cardboard
Print – Poster mounted to Foam Core about eDib electronic process. Likely an original poster made in house.
Poster – Original “If You have Limited Income and Resources and a Child with Disability…” SSI poster
Print – Copy of Social Security Act application account for Grace Dorothy Owen
Poster – “In Some way, at some point in life, everybody needs help.” SSI poster, 2 copies small, 1 copy large
Poster – Original “When Time Matters Call Social Security” 1997, 6 copies
Poster – Original “We Have Your Number and Soon You’ll have Ours”
Poster – Original “It’s Never Too Soon to Start Building a More Secure Future”
Print – Copy of “Your Social Security, Nearing 65?” with old man in wheelchair
Poster – Original “Jump on the Bandwagon” 1997, 5 copies
Poster – Original “The Presidents Speak” FDR to Ford, 8 copies
Poster – Original “Burn Brush Carefully! Prevent Woods Fires.” 1948, U.S Department of Agriculture
Print – Copy of “Join the March” Poster, 2 copies
Poster – Original “Bridging the Gap to the Workplace” Employee support programs poster
Poster – Original “Celebrating 65 Years of Public Service”, 28 copies
Poster – Original “Swearing-In Ceremonies” heads of SSA taking oath of office – exhibit display poster
Prints – “Twenty-Five Years of Public Assistance”
Poster – Original “Social Security its more than retirement” for Native Americans in Billings Montana
Prints – “Some Social Security Pioneers” 2 copies, “Some Social Security Pioneers” with different photo arrangement, 1 copy
Print – “Social Security 50th Anniversary” 1935-1985
Print – “Making it Easier for the Public: 3 Steps to Security in Your Old Age”
Poster – Original “Your 1961 Social Security Improvements”
Poster – Original “For People 65 and Older, MEDICARE” Nov 1965
Poster – Original “Social Security for Ten Million more People, are you one of them?” 1950
Poster – Original “9 out of 10 Americans who work earn Social Security Benefits” 1964
Poster – Original “From Account Number to Benefit” 1956, 2 copies
Poster – Original “How Social Security Works” 1956, 2 copies
Poster – Original “Twenty Years of Social Security” 1956, 2 copies
Poster – Original “I Came to Washington to Work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain, common workingmen.” Frances Perkins poster, 1980
Poster – Original “Benefits from Social Security: A Lifeline for People with AIDS”
Poster – Original “MEDICARE” poster explaining Medicare, March 1970
Poster – Original Picture of group of people facing right and smiling no text, 2 copies
Poster – Original “Social Security” (In Spanish language) – picture of different group of people facing right, 2 copies
Poster – Original “When You Apply for Legalization”
Poster – Original “National Women’s History Month” w/Kriste Lindenmeyer as guest speaker, March 2003, poster mounted to foam core with attached pamphlets
Poster – Original “National Women’s History Month: Some Social Security Pioneers” March 2003, made in house
Poster – Original “When cousins are two of a kind, they file online!” Patty Duke promotional poster for socialsecurity.gov, 2009
Poster – Original “Retire Online, It’s So easy!” Patty Duke promotional poster, 2009
Print – “Social Security: A Family Protection Plan” b/w
Poster – Original “President’s Council on Y2K Conversion” w/ autograph
Poster – Original, in-house “Celebrating eDib at the Atlanta Regional OQA” Jan 2005 – mounted on foam core.
Poster – Original, in-house “Celebrating eDib in Mississippi” Jan 2005, mounted on foam core
Print – Copy of poster “More Security for the American Family” w/ elderly lady at fence
Poster – Possibly Original “This is one way to solve problems, our way is better!” 1991, Ostrich sticking head in sand
Print – “At least, as much as” show checks with least amount and max amount given, 2 copies
Print – “500 Social Security Board Field Offices await Mr. or Mrs. Worker’s Application”
Poster – Original “Need Help about your Old-Age & Survivors Insurance” 1955 w/ special Social Security envelope package
Poster – possible original “Social Security 50th Anniversary” w/ San Antonio proclamation and list of presidents, 1985
Poster – Original “More Security for the American Family” w/ elderly lady at fence, 1940. Damage occurring due to it being glued to Plexiglas
Poster – Original “This man collects Social Security” picture of baby, April 1970, 4 copies
Print – “Join the March”
Posters – Original “Social Security & The Young Worker” 12 copies
Poster – Original “Not being able to see shouldn’t keep you in the dark”, 4 copies
Poster – Original “Social Security…How May I Help You?”
Poster – Original “Unemployment Insurance 60th Anniversary”, 2 copies
Poster – Original “Social Security: Partnership with Tomorrow, 50th Anniversary”
Poster – Original “Putting Customers First: Social Security’s Customer Service Pledge” 1994
Poster – Original, In-house “Women’s History Month: Some Program Milestones”
Poster – Original, In-house “Women’s History Month: Female Employment at SSA”
Poster – Original, In-house “Women’s History Month: Some Social Security Pioneers”
Poster – Original “Cut Out the Middle Man…Social Security Services are Free” 1997
Poster – Original “Spring 1987 Social Security Newsposter”
Poster – Original “Summer 1987 Social Security Newspaper”
Poster – Original “Old-Age & Survivors Insurance protects Regular Farm Workers” 1952
Poster – Original “Almost 16 million Ms, Miss, Mrs. Are getting Social Security Benefits”
Poster – Original “Moving?” Poster advising to notify SSA if you move and are getting SS or SSI.
Poster – Original “Applying for a Social Security Card?” July 1978, 2 copies
Poster – Original “If You’re not a U.S. citizen when you apply for a Social Security card, you must show immigration papers.” July 1978, 2 copies
Prints – Copies of “More Security for the American Family” both w/ lady and baby and lady fence posters, also print of “Your Social Security, nearing 65?” w/ man in wheelchair
Poster – Original “A Monthly Check to You” 1936
Poster – Original “Medicare: Advancing Towards the 21st Century: 1966-1996” 30th Anniversary of Medicare
Poster – Original “1942-1982 Social Security Administration Library: 40 Years of Progressive Service”, double sided poster
Poster – Original “Unemployment Compensation”
Poster – Original “To Aid the Needy Blind”
Print – Computer printout of poster logo “Social Security, 65 Years of Service”
Poster – Original, In-house “Creating Social Security 1935-2002” FDR signing bill
Poster – Original “Your Social Security, Nearing 65?” June 1968, 4 copies
Poster – Original “Your Social Security, Disabled?” 3 copies
Print – Copy of “Don’t Lose Benefits”, 2 copies
Print – “A Monthly Check to You” mounted on foam core
Poster – Original “Es Artesano? Futuro Feliz Seguro Social” Spanish language Social Security poster, 1965
Poster – Original “Cuando Usted Solicite su Legalizacion” When you apply for legalization you need a Social Security card
Poster – Original “Soviet – U.S. Exchange, May 4-10, 1990” w/ signatures
Prints – Prints and transparencies of “Join the March” and “More Security for American Families” posters – various sizes and quality, in manila envelope
Poster – Original, In-house “SSA Digital Library”
Poster – Original “Apply for Benefits by Phone USE Social Security’s Teleclaims Service”, June 1975
Poster – Original “Aliens applying for a social security number from show their immigration papers” July, 1975, 2 copies
Poster – Original “Social Security presents The World of Folk Music”
Poster – Original “Social Security Case Book, Dramatic Interviews with SS Beneficiaries”
Poster – Original “Social Security Pats them $103 Every Month”
Print – Copy of Note to Employees sign that hung in NABISCO plant
Print – Copy of “People Who are 65 or Older or Blind or Disabled” mounted on cardboard
Poster – Original “El Seguro Social les Paga $100 todos los meses”
Poster – Original “Cuando su esposo se mato”
Print – Copy of Article about Larry DeWitt and his museum from Baltimore Sun Howard County edition, 2006
Poster – Original “Farm Workers Need Social Security Cards!”, 2 copies
Poster – Original “Social Security Helps it Fall in Place”
Poster – Original “Social Security, how may I help you?”, 2 copies
Magazine Cover – OASIS April 1988, “What Our Future Can Be…”
Poster – Original “What will you or your family do?”
Print – Copy of checks paid to Ida Fuller, Neils Ruud, and Joseph Lacasse
Poster – Original “Social Security for people of all ages”, 2 copies
Poster – Original “Social Security, its more than retirement” lady in red hard hat finger painting, 2 copies
Print – Copy of Article on “Snooping-Tagging You”, 1936
Poster – Original “Sixty Plus? Inquire before you retire.” 1959
Print – Print of Painting # 991 of 1500, “What so proudly we hailed: Combined Federal Campaign 2003” Painting of Fort McHenry battle of 1814
Poster – Original, In-house, “Martha May Eliot” low res photo
Concept Book Cover – “Never a Finished Thing: Arthur J. Altmeyer and the Formative Years of Social Security” – proposed title and design for biography on Altmeyer by Larry DeWitt
Poster – In House print on foam core “We can make a difference” food drive ad
Print – Copy of “When a Miss becomes a Mrs.” 1952 mounted on cardboard NOTE: Possibility that poster is in fact original and was mounted like that originally
Poster – Original “Two Countries, One Agreement” US/Canadian Social Security poster, 2 copies
Poster – Original “Esta Usted Preparado Para Solicitar Beneficos de Seguro Social”
Photo – Large photo of Okalahoma City Bombing federal building
Poster – Original “Visit us at SSA…where ability counts! National Disability Employment Mentoring Day” Oct 16, 2002
Poster – Original “Call First” 1970, 2 copies
Poster – Original “For Disabled or Blind People Who Want to Work” 2 copies
Prints – Copies of “Social Security 50th Anniversary” 8x10 size, 16 copies
Print – Photo print of a photo showing an old poster, “Social Security is Family Insurance” The Diamond Agency, realtors, insurers
Poster – Original “Esta solicitando una tarjeta de seguro social?” 2, copies
Poster – Original “Si usted no es un ciudadano de los EE.UU…”, 2 copies
Poster – Original “Your Social Security Representative here Today!”
Poster – Original “If you work and get social security checks” 2 copies
Poster – Original “Social Security, Disabled? Ask for a free copy of leaflet No. 2 on the new 1958 Social Security Law”, 1958, 6 copies
Poster – Original “If you are a student getting social security benefits” 2 copies
Poster – Original “It’s Hard to Say No!” SS Card not for ID, 1962
Poster – Original “More Earnings Count”
Print – Copy of “Keep Your Card”
Print – Copy of newspaper article “Take Care of your Card” National Container Digest, 1947
Poster – Original “Social Security: Partnership with Tomorrow, 50th Anniversary” 1985 w/ signatures, 2 copies (one unsigned)
Poster – Original “Social Security Direct Deposit” 1997, 7 copies
Poster – Original “Hang in there and give us a call”
Poster – Original “If you are getting supplemental security income disability checks” May 1980, 2 copies
Poster – Original “Este Agricultor recibira los beneficos del seguro social”, 2 copies
Poster – Original “De Cada 10 personas estan cubiertas por el seguro social”, 1965, 2 copies
Poster – original “Your Social Security, Nearing 65?” elderly couple with SSA agent, June 1968
Poster – Original “Your Social Security, Survivors Insurance” 7 copies, June 1968
Poster – Original “If you need an interpreter…” in multiple languages, 4 copies
Poster – Original “Mecubre Seguro Social” 1965
Prints – Mounted on cardboard “Join the March” 5x7, Photo of postmen in NY deliver SS blanks, ‘Social Security Never Stops Working’, prints of checks to Ruud and Lacasse, “What else does baby need?”, Social Security Card 000-00-0000, photo series of 4 photos (farmer/tractor, old couple at SS, farmers, grocer)
Photo – mounted to cardboard w/ label tag “The Security of Children Must be Safeguarded” photo is of sign promoting security for children, 1942 (date accessioned)
Print – series of SSB Information pamphlets from 1936 (reproductions) mounted on cardboard
Print – Copy of Poster “More Security for the American Family” mother w/ baby
Print – Oversized copy of “Join the March” plus one small size
Photo – Photo of Arthur Altmeyer on foam core
Print – “SSA’s History Quiz Contest rules” folder table display, original
Poster – Original “Hold On To Your Social Security Card” 1943 – extensive damage to lower left corner
Poster – Original “Because These People had Vision and Courage, these people will get monthly Social Security checks.”, damage around edges
Poster – Original “Have you Moved?” Uncle Sam asking, 2 copies
Poster – Original “You don’t have to retire to get Medicare” picture of pocket watch
Poster – Original “Six Decades of Service”
Poster – Print, “Are You Employed As A…” Dec. 1959

Photos

Poster – Original “Social Security, Its more than Retirement” w/ lady in red hard hat
Poster – Original “Social Security, Its more than Retirement” w/ three kids laughing
Poster – Original “Social Security, for people of all ages.”
Poster – Original “Good Things Come in Small Packages”
Poster – Original “Social Security, how may I help you?”, large w/ two different people per poster, 2 posters
Pamphlet – Information regarding a full motion Social Security display
Sign – Metal plate with “Kenneth S. Apfel, Commissioner of Social Security” written on it – like office name plate or door plate
Poster – Original “Social Security, How may I help you?” w/ three different people per poster, 3 posters
Print – Copy of “Join the March” 2 copies
Print – Copy of “More Security for the American Family” w/ old man holding pipe
Poster – Possible Original “Blank Lung Benefits”
Drawing – pencil drawing of portrait of Altmeyer
Print – Poster (possibly original) “Call Social Security Toll free” w/ elderly lady on phone
Photos – 4 photos mounted to paper – 1937 SSB punch card tabulating system
Print – copy of sign “Social Security Records are Confidential”
Display Panel – with copies of checks and photo of Ida Fuller, yellow board
Labels – metal labels in manila envelope of Commissioner’s names and years of service
Photos – Two presidential photos of Obama in manila envelope.
Photo –Dorcas Hardy photo
Photo – President Reagan signing 83 Amendments – large photo
Photo – John Tramburg – 2 copies, one mounted to cardboard for scaling
Photo – George W. Bush presidential photo, 2 copies
Photo – Dick Cheney, official photo, 2 copies
Photo – Michael Astrue, official photo
Photo – Jo Anne B. Barnhart, official photo
Drawings – Collection of engraved drawings of the Presidents from FDR to GWB
Print – Print of hand drawn portrait of Robert Ball
Photos – Collection of photos mounted on aligning boards for use in OASIS magazine – photos range from presidential signings to commissioners to Ida Fuller, to the SSB members
Drawing – FDR Signing Photo – illustration
Photo – H. P. Seidemann, Director of Bureau of Old Age Insurance – photo mounted on heavy paper w/ original filing label
Photo – Social Security Board (Bigge, Altmeyer, Dewson, Bane) –photo mounted on heavy paper w/ original file label
Photo – Edwin Witte – mounted on board used for sizing photo
Print – photo print of Reagan signing 1983 Amendments, mounted to red board
Print – SSB, Winant in middle
Print – Reagan signing 1983 Amendments
Print – JFK with three individuals (names needed) mounted on gray board, 2 copies
Print – Photo from NY Times, postmen leaving to deliver SS applications
Print – Photo from 1964 with Robert Ball (Commissioner SSA), Anthony Celebreezze (Secretary of HEW), and John Gronouski (Postmaster General)
Photo – William Halter, official photo – acting commissioner Jan-March 2001
Print – FDR Signing photo, large scale
Display Panel – Harry Truman drawing and text on Plexiglas – damaged at bottom
Drawings – Collection of Presidential Drawings (the ones used for the Plexiglas display panel in museum now), in manila envelope
Photo – Henry Wallace, Sec. of Agriculture – photo mounted to scaling board
Photo – Frances Perkins – mounted to scaling board
Photo – Contract Signing, Oct. 31, 1957 Social Security Building – mounted on damaged heavy paper
Photo – Merrill G. Murray, Assistant Director, Analysis Division
Photo – H. Norman Milburn, Jr. Chief, Personnel Office
Photo – J. Reed Carpenter
Photo – Charles Beach
Photo – Ewell T. Bartlett
Photo – Vincent miles
Photo – Bill Clinton, official presidential photos, 2 copies
Photos- Bill Clinton signing photo 7 copies, 2 mounted to boards
Photo – Sen. Sarbanes, Shirley Chater Commissioner SSA
Photo – LBJ at podium with Altmeyer and Ball in background
Prints – Photo prints of President Truman, 3 copies
Photo – William L. Mitchell 1959-1962, mounted to scaling board
Photo – Arthur Altmeyer 1946-1953, mounted to scaling board
Photo – Oscar Powell, Leona Mae Kinnon, William Mitchell, Ellen Woodward, Arthur Altmeyer, George Bigge.
Photo – Joseph L. Fay
Photo - Patricia Harris, Secretary of HHS
Photo - Joe Calefono, Secretary of HHS
Photo – Oscar Ewing, Admin, of SSA, 1949 – autographed by Oscar Ewing and signed to Harry Holland, District Manager, DC, 1951
Photo – Gerald Ford, official photo
Prints – Photo print of JKF, 4 copies
Prints – Photo prints of LBJ, 3 copies
Prints – Photo prints of Eisenhower, 4 copies
Prints – Gerald Ford, 3 copies
Photo – Charles Schottland, 2 copies
Photo – Francis McDonald
Photo – Arthur Altmeyer
Photo – Roy E. Touchet, Chief, Planning and Review Office
Photo, framed – LBJ and Charles Schottland shaking hands of people in line, May 1968
Photo, framed – Larry G. Massanari
Photo – Vic Criskow (sp?) Director of Bureau of Old Age & Survivors Insurance, 3 copies
Photo – John J. Callahan, official photo
Print – Photo print of original, Recognition dinner in honor of Frances Perkins, Mayflower Hotel, June 27, 1945, from Wisconsin Archives
Print – Photo print of original, Group of 43 men, possibly Altmeyer in photo. From Wisconsin Archives
Photo – Elderly Gentleman with three kids and a train layout
Photo – LBJ, large copy
Photo – Watson Miller, Administrator to FSA, autographed by him and presented to Harry Holland.
Photo – Leo Miller, Assistant to Administrator, autographed by him and presented to Harry Holland.
Poster – “The Presidents Speak”
Photo – Ida Fuller
Photo – Henry Morgenthau, mounted on scaling board
Photo – Homer Cummings, mounted on scaling board
Photo – Anthony Celebrezze ,Secretary of HEW, 8 copies
Photo – LBJ signing MEDICARE with Truman
Photo – G.H.W. Bush signing Omnibus Bills, 1989 or 90
Photo – G.H.W. Bush applying for Medicare, 3 copies
Photo – FDR signing photo – 3 copies, 1 copy is a more candid scene
Photo – Group Meeting w/ autographs of meeting members date between 1936-1946
Prints – FDR signing photo – 7 copies
Photo – Prints of LBJ signing Medicare with Truman, 5 copies
Photo – Al Gore, official photo, 3 copies
Photo – Gerald Ford, official photo 3 copies
Photo – Employees in the Visible Index March, 1940, 2 copies
Photo – Bush’s Commission, May 2001
Photo – Woodlawn Aerial shot, early 60s
Photo – Two workers in filing cabinet room, one on ladder
Photo – SSA workers at desks in small office with covered fans on wall
Photo, framed – Altmeyer, Ball, Celebrezze
Photo – Mary E. Switzer 1950-1967
Photo – Andrew S. Adams 1974-Present
Photo – Edward Newman 1969-1973
Photo – Joseph Hunt 1967-1969
Photo - Michael J. Shortley 1943-1950
Photo - John A. Kratz 1921-1943
Photo – Lewis Carris, 1st Commissioner of the VR Program, 1920-1921
Photo, framed – Frances Perkins
Photo – Splicing Machine
Photo w/card & display text – Arthur Altmeyer and his business card and text taken from Who’s Who
Photo – Man squatting and working with electrical cords, B/W, on scaling board and also final printed image
Photo – Ops Analyst Nancy Rank and Digital Computer Programmer Stan Barron check results of the work, B/W, photo and magazine clipping of photo
Photo – Fifth Annual Social Security Employee’s Art Exhibit, B/W, photo and magazine clipping of photo
Poster – Original, Your Social Security Account-5 “Employer’s Report”
Poster – Original, “Social Security, 50th Anniversary” blue background
Poster – Original, “Social Security, how may I help you?” man with glasses and goatee
Photo – President Carter signing
Photo – President Truman signing
Photo – Workers using early microfiche machines – mounted on scaling board
Print – Photo print of poster “Social Security 50th Anniversary” with jointhe march poster and CES members/FDR/Townsend
Photo – Arthur J. Altmeyer
Photo – Arthur Altmeyer in repose
Photo – Arthur Altmeyer in white suit seated with W. Cohen, M. Murray, L. MacKinnon and others, Aug. 1942
Photo – Arthur Altmeyer standing outside Altmeyer Building front – 1960s
Photo – Arthur Altmeyer, John Winant, and Vincent Miles
Photo – Arthur Altmeyer at meeting with many people at table – Social Security Photo no. 64-263
Photo – Picture of the Bus Loop from atop the Annex building – 1970s
Print – photo print of poster “Functional Chart of the Social Security Board”
Photo – Front view of the Woodlawn facility w/ auditorium in center of frame, limited color photo
Magazine Clipping – The Washington Post Potomac, March 16, 1969 “League of Women Voters” with Lavinia Engle
Photo – 1998 John N. Sturdivant National Partnership Award (Eagle flying atop square wooden base), 2 copies
Photo – SSA Commissioner Shirley Chater at podium w/ Hillary Clinton seated
Photo – SSA Commissioner Shirley Chater standing next to Hillary Clinton
Photo – SSA Commissioner Shirley Chater shaking hands w/ Hillary Clinton
Photo – Hillary Clinton greeting SS Survivors Insurance beneficiary Michael Maybin and family, SSA Commissioner Chater in background
Photo – Gentleman in gray pinstriped suit at podium – 2 photos (different angles)
Photo – Large print of Arthur Altmeyer at desk – last day at SSA
Document – copy of House Bill No. 119 Introduced by Loble w/ attached picture
Photo – Herbert R. Doggette Jr. retirement party at Martin’s West banquest hall in Baltimore March 20, 1990
Photos – Alumni Exhibit Photos – include Corner Stone laying ceremony, Jam in main corridor, listing Flexoline strips, pushing a skid load of trays onto elevator, construction shot of operations building, the 707 Building, aerial view of Woodlawn complex 1960s, NCC building, construction of upright supports, Metro-West building, aerial view of Woodlawn complex 1970s
Photo – Basic Readings in Social Security, poster like display
15th Anniversary Employees of BOASI, Division of Accounting Operations – Nov 1951
Photo – Murrah Building damaged in OK City bombing w/ ripped flag
Document – ‘A Farewell Message’ A. Altmeyer’s retirement letter (copy)
Print – copy of Join the March poster
Display – “Life in Candler – Operations” posting operations, card punching
Display – “Life in Candler – Operations” Adjunction Unit, mounds of paper
Display – “Life in Candler – Operations” Mechanical tabulators 1930s, Computers 1956
Display – “Life in Candler – The Files”
Display – “The Visible Index”
Display – “The Visible Index” overall shot above, man in seat below
Display – “The Numerical Register”
Display – “Photos of the Unveiling Ceremony” Oct. 2003 Commissioner Barnhart at Candler building historical marker unveiling
Display – “Life in Candler – Operations” early photocopy machine, and mimeograph machine, March 1937
Photo – Elderly lady next to door frame – 1930s Depression
Photo – Sumner Whittier, Art Hess, others – at podium
Photo – Sumner Whittier, Casper Weinberger, James Cardwell
Display – “The Candler Building: Home to Social Security 1936-1960” photos of ships and docks
Display – “The Candler Building: Home to Social Security 1936-1960” photos of Candler building
Display – “The Candler Building: Home to Social Security 1936-1960” Candler building as seen from Fish market and streets
Display - “Life in Candler – Facilities” Medical unit, blur of activity
Photo – Bill Clinton signing 8x10
Display – Who was at the FDR Signing Ceremony, various photos of signing w/ numbers imposed plus 2 legend charts
Photo – Group Photo – men seated in chairs, on tables, etc US flag on right side, 4 copies, 1 is original
Photo – Group photo, men seated and standing, w/ ashtray off center, 1960s
Photo – Larry DeWitt outside of Altmeyer building akin to Altmeyer photo from the 1960s
Photo – Series of portrait photos of James B. Cardwell, 2 sheets
Photo – James Cardwell and Casper Weinberger
Photo – mounted on foam core, SSA Independence ceremony? Commissioner Chater with new SSA contemporary logo.
Photo – Workers holding OPM’s Director’s Award, Outstanding Work & Family Programs
Photo – Field Office Managers’ Regional Conference, Curtis, Minneapolis, MN April 22-24, 1952
Photo w/ newspaper clipping – ‘Gotham Girl 26,000,000th to get Social Security Card” Martha Carlson w’ A. Altmeyer and F. Perkins, encased in Plexiglas
Document – Folder “Social Security: How to Apply for SSI Disability Benefits for a Child”
Photo – “In 1947 Soc. Sec. began to use microfilm…”
Cardboard – Yellow Bainbridge Baord w/ newspaper clipping photo of Office Machine Operator Janet Cooley developing film, the board is stamped Jan 1967
Document – Copy of Presidential invitation from Truman to Arthur Altmeyer and his wife to the White House
Newspaper Clipping – Washington Post, Oct 18, 1972, “Arthur J. Altmeyer, 81, Dies”
Photo – Bob Krebs and Don Gambieski w/ group of people in old History Room
Photo mounted to board – Ida M. Fuller
Photo – Lady holding small IBM data tape as compared to the massive stack of paper files in front of her – shot used for OASIS cover
Board w/ photos attached – Yellow/gray board with photo of William Bradshaw watching Raquel Francis operate film reader
Document – “Getting FDR’s Help in Finding a Home” by Frank Bane – two pages, dated June 1977
Photo – Bill Clinton signing disabilities act, 5 copies
Photo – Robert M. Ball in front of Altmeyer Building, 1965
Photo – FDR Signing
Photo – JFK Signing
Paper Print – 91st Congress “Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969”
Photo – rolled into tube – Arthur Altmeyer and many others at meeting, tube is dry and damaged
Photos – Vice President Joe Biden, 4 copies

Drawings

Drawing – Robert Finch riding a stork by Stan Hunt
Signs – Cardboard prints of “Official Business, US Department of Health Education and Welfare, Social Security Administration” 3 copies
Drawings w/ Negatives – Robert Finch drawings, 2 negatives and 1 cartoon, all 3 different
Document – 1959 Leave Card for Government Employees
Newspaper Clippings – “Ike’s Social Security Program” political cartoon
Newspaper Clipping – Grin and Bear It “He broke our engagement…”
Drawings – Social propaganda cartoons, “Modern Communities…” w/ well drawing, and “Neighbors…” w/ barn raising
Document – Form OAR-7004, Statement of Old-Age Insurance Account, mail in request form, 1939
Newspaper Clipping – Newark Evening News, June 3, 1954 “More Than Just a Smile for Their Umbrella” political cartoon about Ike’s expanded social security program, encased in Plexiglas
Drawing – Caricature of Wilbur Cohen drawn by Lloyd Cargile, SSA Graphic Artist, presented to Cohen at his retirement, 2 copies, one is matted
Drawing – FDR portrait (pencil or charcoal) Leon A Perskie, 1944
Painting – Copy of unfinished FDR portrait by Elizabeth Shoumatoff, 1945
Drawing – Original drawing for political cartoon, “What do you know about old age problems?” two wheelchair bound men fighting over healthcare
Drawing – Portraits of Ball, Cohen, Fowler, and Wirtz – used for back cover of Aug 68 OASIS
Poster – Print of “This Brave New Woild”
Drawing – Portrait of George W. Bush on opaque paper
Print – Photo print of checks to Fuller, Ruud, and Lacasse
Drawings and Negatives – Robert M Ball black and white caricatures and negatives, in manila envelope
Drawing – Original newspaper political cartoon by Tom Flannery of the Evening Sun. “Calling administration, admissions, all doctors..”
Drawing – Original newspaper political cartoon by Tom Flannery, “Hold that Bandwagon”
Drawing – Yardly Cartoon on Social Security, in manila envelope
Tote Bag – HR Forum SSA, Baltimore MD, Aug 1997
Leather Binder, brown – Speaker’s Guide, Health Insurance Program
Document – Sample of Secretary’s Employee of the Month parking pass card.
Comic Book – “A Harvest of Hope”
Comic Book – “Three Who Came Back”
Comic Book – “The Future is Now!”
Comic Book – “John’s First Job”
Comic Book – “In Other Peoples’ Homes”
Drawings – photo prints of artists sketches “Why” black and white drawings in brown folder

Pamphlets

Manual – “OASDI Program: Review of Administration fiscal year 1963”
Document – Form BM-507 “Report of Long Distance Telephone Messages”
Pamphlet – “Do You Know…”
Pamphlet – “Social Security: What You need to Know When You get Disability Benefits” 1998
Book – “Old Age, Survivors, and Invalidity Programs Throughout the World” 1954
Book – “OASI Handbook for Employees” 1944
Book – “Reference Facts on Health, Education, and Welfare Conditions and Programs, Sep 1962”
Book – “Social Security Today: A Discussion on some Current Issues in Social Security Today” 1968
Pamphlets – “SSA Facts and Figures”
Book – “Introduction to the Social Security Board” Field Edition 1941
Book – “Reference Facts on Health, Education, and Welfare”, 3 copies - Jan 1965, Jan 1966, and June 1967
Book – “It’s Your Money – Come and Get It” by Sidney Margolius
Book – “Social Security Bulletin July 1940”
Pamphlet – “Social Security Research in Progress at Universities and Colleges, Spring 1941”
Book – “Social Security U.S.A.: The Program and Its Administration” orange book
Book – “Private Health Insurance and Medical Care Conference papers”
Pamphlet – “Economic Security 2000”
Book – “Social Security in the United States” 1948
Book – “Interviewing in Social Security”
Book – “Guide to Social Security and Medicare” 2001
Book – “The Genesis of Social Security in America” by J. Douglas Brown
Book – “Long-Range Cost Estimates for Old-Age Insurance” Charles C. Killingsworth and Gertrude Schroeder, 1951
Print – Copy of “You’re Sentenced to a Weekly Pay Reduction” poster
Pamphlet – “Social Security Board Regulation No. 1 – Disclosure of Official Records and Information” 1937
Pamphlet – “Estimating your social security retirement check for workers who reached 62 before 1979”
Book – “Handbook for Employees: Accounting Operations Division, Bureau of Old Age and Survivors Insurance” 1940
Document – “Acknowledgment of Claims and Important Instructions” dated 1946
Book – “Introduction to the Social Security Board: A Handbook for Employees” 1941
Magazine – The New Yorker Aug, 15, 1994
Magazine – McCall’s, May 1935, Article on Long, Townsend, Coughlin
Magazine – The Literary Digest, Aug 24, 1935
Document – Form SS-5 Application for Social Security Account Number w/ John Doe as worker’s name
Document – “General Instructions” pages 3-4, 11-16-1936
Document – Form SS-1, Employer’s Return Under Title VIII of the Social Security Act – blank form
Document – Form SS-5 Application for Social Security Account Number, 2 blank copies
Document – Form BM-437, Daily Report of Official Overtime, blank
Document – Form OAF-3001, Weekly Field Office Report, blank
Document – Social Security Account number forms GA-702 w/ sequential SS numbers, but forms are blank
Document – Form OAC-7064, “Social Security Claim Inquiry”, 1939
Document – “Outline of Employer’s Duties under the Social Security Act and the Internal revenue Code as Amended August 1939”
Document – Important Instructions, Wife’s Benefits, 1942
Document – Important Instructions, Primary Benefits, 1942
Pamphlet – “The Social Security Act: Who Gets the Benefits?” 2 copies
Pamphlet – “Your Social Security record” w/ anamorphic office equipment drawings
Letter – ‘The American Embassy Letter’ (London), Aug. 22, 1912, negatives and prints
Magazine – Life “Roosevelt’s McNutt”, Aug 7, 1935
Magazine – Life “How Your Social Security Works” Dec. 1985, 2 copies
Magazine – Government Computer News –Profile Aug. 29, 1988
Prints – “Security in Your Old Age” Social Security board to Employees of Industrial and Business Establishments (Early Publication) in manila envelope
Magazine – Holiday, Feb. 1950
Stamp – “Social Security: Partnership with Tomorrow 50th Anniversary”
Book – Employees Social Security: Personal Record, Salaries and Wages”
Print – Republican National Committee Check Stuffer from 1936 election “Deductions from pay start Jan. 1”
Book – Income of Disabled Worker Beneficiaries
Book – Survey Measurement of Work Disability
Book – Social Security: What you need to know when you get retirement or survivors benefits, 1996
Book – Fast Facts and Figures about Social Security, Aug. 2000
Pamphlet – Social Security 2010 Vision, 2 copies
Pamphlet – SSA’s Employee Suggestion Program
Pamphlet – Social Security: Benefits for Children with Disabilities, 1997
Pamphlet – Your Social Security Rights and Responsibilities: Retirement and Survivors Benefits, July 1982
Pamphlet – Social Security Survivors Benefits, 1979
Pamphlet – Social Security Amendments 1965: A Brief Explanation
Book – OASDI Basic Program Charts, Revised January 1963
Book – Social Security Basic Program Charts, June 1966
Comic Book – reprints of “The Future is Now”, 4 copies
Magazine – AARP Bulletin, Nov. 2007 vol. 48 No. 10
Magazine – AARP Bulletin, Oct. 2007 Vol. 48 No. 9
Newspaper – Federal Computer Week, Feb. 17, 1989
Newspaper – Government Computer News, March 20, 1989, 2 copies
Newspaper – Federal Computer Week, Dec. 5, 1988
Newspaper – Federal Computer Week, March 27, 1989
Document – Certificate of Social Insurance Award for Annie C. Dreifus who became entitled for Wife’s Insurance Benefits on April 16, 1945 – letter and envelope
Book – “Why Social Security?” 23 copies

Regional Photos

Photo, framed – Wilbur Cohen
Photo, framed – Clinton Signing Bill
Photo – Union City ARR Conference
Photo – Regional Conference, Field Office Managers, Chicago Ill. Oct. 8-10, 1940
Photo – Region VI Conference, Field Office Managers, Chicago, Ill. March 20-22, 1939
Photo – Regional Conference of Managers – Region 6, Hotel La Salle, Chicago, Ill. Feb. 28, 1940
Photo – Unidentified location – large group of men and women seated and standing for group shot
Photo – Unidentified location – five tables with speakers table in rear, 2 copies
Photo – Social Security Administration Conference Region 5, Sheraton Hotel, Chicago, Sep 21, 1949
Photo – Williamsburg ARR Conference
Photo, framed – JFK w/ Wilbur Cohen and two others
Photo, framed – 15th Anniversary Employees of BOASI, Division of Accounting Operations – Nov, 1951
Photo, framed – Unidentified location group of men (identified on back of frame) seated on couch and standing behind couch ~ 1960s
Poster – “Then” teal colored background with four B/W photos
Photo – Regional Meeting Field Manager’s Region IX, Kansas City, MO Nov. 19, 1937, 8 copies, one in Plexiglas, one in clear envelope w/ damage, 6 others
Photo – First Regional Managers Conference, San Antonio TX, Dec. 1936
Photos – Prints of the Social Security Board Regional Director’s Conference, Washington D.C., Jan 19-15, 1939, 6 copies
Photo – John R. Commons, 1920
Photo – OASI Conference, Savannah, Georgia, Nov. 29-30, 1954
Photo – Region X Field Office Managers’ Conference, Furnace Creek Inn, Death Valley CA, Nov. 7-9 1951
Photo – Region X OASI Conference, Del Monte Lodge, Pebble Beach, CA, Oct. 27-29, 1952
Photo – Regional Managers Conference, Santa Barbara CA, May 7-9, 1962
Photo – Social Security Board Region 1 Conference of Managers, Wentworth by the Sea, N.H. June 19-21, 1946
Photo – Regional Managers’ Conference, Region IX, Sun Valley, Idaho, May 6-8, 1952
Document – Letter Identifying participants at the Region IX Managers’ Conference in May 1962
Photo – Social Security Board, Field Office Managers, Washington D.C. – Dec 17, 1938, 2 copies
Photo – Social Security Board, Regional Directors’ Conference, Washington D.C. Jan. 19-25, 1939, 3 copies
Photo – Social Security Administration Conference, Region 5, Sheraton Hotel Chicago, Sep. 21, 1949
Photo – Joint Conference Regional Representatives and Area Office Chiefs, Wawasee, Indiana, June 2-8, 1944, 7 copies including original photo
Photo – Social Security Board – Field Office Managers, Washington D.C. March 18, 1939
Photo – B.B.’s mother’s portrait. The mother did not like photo, stating: “Dear B.B., This is a baggy looking likeness – tuck it away and I’ll try and get a drawing of my head – or make a map shot good enough to enlarge. Mother” the name Ellen Commons is written at the bottom, 1946
Photo – The Advisory Council on Social Security Appointed by the Senate Finance Committee and the SSB, US Dept of Labor, Dec. 9, 1938, Washington D.C.
Photo – Appeals Council and Referees – Social Security Board, Washington D.C. March 14, 1940
Photo – 4th region V Conference, April 21, 1938, Mid-Day Club
Photo – Tri-Regional Conference, SSA, St. Louis May 19-21, 1947
Photo – SSB, Assistant Regional Representatives and Field Office Managers, Washington D.C. – Sep 9, 1939
Photo – West Point Conference, Buzz Session, 11/23/1954
Photo – Dinner Party, SSB, Allerton Hotel, Cleveland, OH, Oct. 14, 1940, taped to cardboard w/ reference chart taped to reverse
Print – Photocopy of photo, Minneapolis Region VIII District Manager Meeting, Aberdeen, South Dakota, Sep 15, 1936
Photo – Minneapolis Region VIII District Manager Meeting, Aberdeen, South Dakota, Sep. 15, 1936, taped to cardboard w/ reference chart taped to reverse
Photo – SSB, Region V Conference Dinner, Dearborn Inn, Oct. 5, 1942, taped to cardboard with reference chart taped to reverse
Photo – Region V Meeting, Cleveland, Ohio – 11/3/1937, taped to cardboard w/ reference chart taped to reverse
Photo – Conference Field Office Managers, region IX, Kansas City, MO – Bellerive Hotel, Oct. 15-17, 1941, 11 copies w 2 negatives and written reference charts
Photo – Dept of Health, Education & Welfare, SSA regional Office, Aug. 1967 Kansas City, MO. Autographed by members present
Photo – Post-Amendment OASI Conference, Regions VII, VIII and IX, Huntington-Sheraton Hotel, Pasadena CA, Nov. 8-9, 1954, 3 copies
Photo – Social Security Board, Region I Conference of Managers, Swampscott, MAs. Sep. 12-15, 1944
Photo – Dinner-Dance Sixth regional Conference Region V SSB, Allerton Hotel, Cleveland OH, March 4, 1940, taped to cardboard with reference chart taped to reverse

Buildings

Drawing – “We have a New Look!” Not to scale diagram of new layout for library.
Photo – November 1969, SSA moved into the new Supply Building ay the Woodlawn Complex – w/ yellow matte
Photos – Pack of 13x19 photos of the Candler Building
Poster – “1935” photos showing various work activities going on in the Candler Building
Drawing – Black and White drawing of office building, black back ground, white medium – plus 1 negative and 1 transparency
Folder – Photographs (Miscellaneous – from OASIS June 1964)
Photo – Social Security Numbers record sheet being printed at 72 feet per minute. IMPORTANT – photo has microfilm reel taped to it. The paper record sheets shown in the photo were later put on microfilm and the microfilm is a slice of that record.
Photo – Man placing files into sorting machine
Photo – Cafeteria in Candler building
Photo – Lady certifying records with rubber stamp
Photo – Central establishment unit
Photo – Lady typing records, photo labeled #5 on back, 2 copies
Photo – Receiving wage information
Photo – Scene from Contested Wages, BOPA in early days and Candler Building, 1 negative, 1 print
Photo – Woodlawn Buildings (just Altmeyer and Operations)
Photo – Woodlawn Complex (Aerial shot of bus loop with high rises and annex) mounted on scaling board
Photo – print of Candler Building mounted on cardboard
Photo – Print of an office (likely in the Candler Building) mounted on cardboard
Photo – Close up of microfilm spools and projector
Photo – Medium shot of microfilm reader (2/3s shot)
Photo – front shot of microfilm reader
Photo – Ledger Machine – 61 ledges per minute – IMPORTANT – microfilm strip taped to photo
Photo – People working in Candler office, writing, typing and checking perforations in cards (two men in back of photo looking at cards)
Photo – Emergency Room, 7th Floor of the Candler Building
Photo – Lady operating a tabulation machine? It is made by International, 3 copies
Photo – Two African American employees working with card shelves
Print – Photocopy print of photo and text – showing general view of card punching section in Wage Records Office in Candler, 1936
Photo – Workers at Candler Building
Photo – Close up of internals of machine – circular plate with four black cylinders on it.
Photo – Lady at tabulation machine, lady is in plaid dress, 3 copies
Photo – Lady looking at punched records card.
Photo – Man holding up stack of punched cards
Photo – Man placing cards into sorting machine, photo mounted on cardboard
Photo – Side view of man in white shirt placing cards into machine
Photo – Man in vest and glasses looking through records sheet and writing
Photo – Man standing in front of Printing Tabulator w/ his back to camera
Photo – Ladies looking through large record book, one seated, pointing in book, other standing looking down at book
Photo – Edited picture of Form OA-C 112 behind photo of workers typing up said type of form
Photo – Man and Woman on edges of photo feeding cards into machines – man in duck shirt standing in back
Photo – Man and Woman seated and at desks, map of regional and field offices hanging on wall
Photo – Two ladies working on IBM electronic calculating units
Photo – Man signing piece of paper
Photo – man with pencil in ear looking at microfilm rolls
Photo – Workers at desks with group of three people standing in back
Print – Copy of newspaper clipping, “To Handle Millions of Social Security Forms”
Photo – Woman in pony tail and plaid vest standing in front of printing machine
Photo – Woman typing on machine while woman in background writes
Photo – Two men at desk talking, calendar on back wall reads June 1940 possibly
Photo – Man working a Photostat machine
Photo – 4 circles with folder files in them
Photo – Standing woman talking to two seated men at desk
Photo – Man with white belt looking through filing cabinet
Photo – Workers looking through filing cabinets
Photo – Shelves in a storeroom
Photo – Man standing at table feeing card into small machine, calendar on walls read September 193?
Photo – General view of section F-3, office space with workers
Photo – Man looking through records in filing cabinet ‘DENA-HOLM HOLM-MORA’
Photo – Nine workers seated at desks typing, fan in left background next to shelves
Photo – Six people at desks in office with three windows
Photo – Robert Coleman, Treasury Dept., w/ envelope check inserter and sealer machine, 11/31/1940
Photo – Photo of model of Woodlawn Complex including East Wing and Annex (minus West Wing) 9 copies
Photos and Wiring Schematic – Brown folder donated by Don Riggs of the Micrographics Section, photos are close ups of electronic equipment
Prints – Computer printouts of New Supply Building photo, 10 copies
Photo – Altmeyer Building photo, 1960s, matted photo
Photo – Cafeteria in Candler Building
Photo – New York Skyline, 1940s
Photo – Lady looking down and writing on records sheet, photo mounted to cardboard
Photo – Two ladies seated at desk working on records – wooden box in front of them, stacks of wooden boxes behind them, mounted to cardboard
Photo – NCC Building w/ dramatic orange clouds
Transparency – Woodlawn Complex w/ Annex
Photo – Dickinson Building, Bureau of Disability Insurance Feb, 1969
Photo – night photo of Altmeyer and Operations, pre wings
Drawing – Old Age Survivors Insurance Building concept sketch
Photo – Woodlawn Complex, 1970/80s – red arrow sticker pointing to tan building across the street
Painting – Painting of gray and red trimmed Woodlawn complex – mounted on heavy cardboard
Print – Painting of new Supply Building – b/w photocopy, 3 copies
Photo – New York Skyline, from higher altitude, 1940s
Print – Board with display setup for Dedication Ida Mae Fuller Building, 1984

Awards

Plaque – Commissioner’s Commendation, Social Security: Partnership with Tomorrow, 50th Anniversary – metal plate on wooden base
Photo – Lady presented man with Outstanding Handicapped Employee Award
Piece of Pin or Award – Metal Liberty Bell with ‘For Patriotic Service, US Savings Bonds” written on it
Plaque – Commissioner’s Citation to Bureau of Disability Insurance, 1971
Award – Citations in blue vinyl award book – Selective Service System presents Exceptional Service Award to SSA, Feb 1, 1981
Award – Federal Security Agency awards SSA Distinguished Service Award, 1951, framed
Award – Federal Security Agency awards SSA Distinguished Service Award, 1951, laminated to wood frame w/ stand
Award – Social Security Board – Certify that Ernest W. Tallman has completed the Basic and Technical Training Courses, Dec. 15, 1936
Award – Social Security Board – Certify that Jack E. Graham has completed the Basic and Technical Training Courses, Sep. 11, 1937
Award – SSB, Certificate of Award to Mrs Millie Hess, entitling her for Wife’s Insurance Benefits, 1943
Award – Baltimore County Public Schools Cooperative Office Education awards SSA ticket of appreciation on behalf of Woodlawn Senior High School, 1979/80
Award – l’Association Internationale de la Securite Sociale presents la medaille pour le merite to SSA, 12, Sep. 1985
Document – Department of the Secretary of State of the State of Montana, Frank Murray, 1969
Award – Honorary Citizen of Tennessee awarded to Dorcas Hardy, 1988
Award – Negative copy of Distinguished Service Award presented to Robert M. Ball, 1954
Award – Negative copy of the Altmeyer Award presented to Robert Ball, 1968
Award – Federal Service Campaign for National health Agencies presents Distinguished Service Award to SSA, 1963
Document – Letter accompanying award from Federal Service Campaign in 1963
Photo, framed – Arthur Altmeyer
Award – Maryland Governor’s Citation Awarded to Dorcas Hardy, 1987
Award – State of California Senate commending Dorcas Hardy, 1987
Award – Spanish award for or about SSA in the United States, 1985
Poster – “2000 Hammer Awards Ceremony: Driving Innovation” June 15, 2000, 2 copies, mounted on foam core
Poster – “1994 Presidential Executive Rank Awards”, 4 copies

Training Classes

Negative – Pratt Library Window Display, Feb. 8, 1945 “Social Security Needs Workers”
Binder #1 – Training Class Photos – 1940s
Binder #2 – Training Class Photos – 1940s w/ loose photos from 1944, 1939, 1959
Photo – Training Class Photo – 26th Training Class for Potential Supervisors, 1957
Photo – Supervision and Group Performance Class No. 21, 1967
Photo – Group photo 1960s “1st Row: Charles D. Smith”
Binder #3 – Training Class Photos 1944-1946 w/ loose photos 1951
Manila Folder – Contains negatives for Exhibits “PSC JOB” – these photos and negatives were used in the 1989 redesign of the SSA History Room.- folder also contains charts and publication scaling boards.

Advisory Committee

Photo – Mounted to Cardboard frame, 1969-1971, Photo has number 5 in a circle at bottom left., 11 copies, 8 copies in brown folder w/ letter to Abe Bortz
Photo – Mounted to Cardboard frame, Advisory Council on Social Security, 1948-1949
Photo – mounted to gray cardboard frame, photo has number 2 in circle at bottom left
Photo – mounted to gray cardboard frame, photo has number 4 in circle at bottom left
Photo – Appeals Council and Referees – SSB, March 1940, 7 copies
Photo – mounted to gray cardboard frame, photo has number 1 in circle at bottom left
Photo – Advisory Council on Social Security 1937-1938, 5 copies
Photo – 1974-1975 Advisory Council on Social Security, 9 copies, 6 of them in brown folder with letters
Photo – Advisory Council on Social Security 1963-1964, 5 copies, 1 negative
Photo – Print, Original Advisory Council, 1937, 2 copies
Photo – 1957-1958 Advisory Council on SS Financing, 4 photos
Photo – 1948 Advisory Council on Social Security – 3 photos
Photo – HAHAUS Committee, Consultants on SS, 1953, 3 copies
Photo Photo – mounted to gray cardboard frame, photo has number 3 in circle at bottom left
Manila Folder – Advisory Council photo labels, Newspaper clippings 1937, prints and negatives

Seals

Seal – Department of Health and Human Services – blue and gold
Seal – Social Security Board, image on Plexiglas
Photo Slide – Image of Department of Health and Human Services
Sign – “Seals” – on heavy cardboard, wrapped in brown paper
Print – Seal of Federal Security Agency – paper, 4 copies
Print – Seal of Social Security Board – onion skin paper on cardboard
Decal – Seal of Current SSA – white print on clear decal, 2 copies
Decal – Seal of DHHS, gold with blue text and details – sticker/decal
Negative – Seal of Social Security Administration (Original) – negative
Print – Eagle image of Social Security Administration (Original) – print on cardboard
Decal – Large SSA logo (current design) – color, 3 copies
Print – Seal of Social Security Board – paper
Print – Seal of Department of Health, Education, and Welfare – small
Seal – Department of Health, Education, and Welfare – printed on masonite – 2 copies
Seal – Social Security Administration (Original), printed on cardboard 4 copies, 2 are original printing boards
Seal – Social Security Board – onion skin paper on cardboard, 2 copies, one with shield and wreath design, the other with eagle and shield design
ZIP Disk – with images of Seals on it
Print – Cardboard print of DHEW seal – small

Negatives

Manila Folder – Actuarial Projections for SSB 1937 (Robert Myers) prints and negatives
Negatives and Prints – Old Lady in Doorway, Unemployment, Child Welfare, Old Age Security – negatives of booklets
Negative and Print – OHD Children’s Bureau, Child Labor April 1912
Negative – “A Brief History of the Social Security Administration” on giant negative with orange borders, 2 copies
Negatives and Prints – Boise Photos and negatives -1940s (?)
Negative – Newspaper Clipping, ‘To handle millions of Social Security forms”
Negatives – Evolution and Leadership of the SSA, Office of Supplemental Security Income, June 1987 – in manila folder with Bluenthal written across front, 3 copies, one copy of this is loose with yellow borders
Negative – newspaper page, The Evening Sun, Carter Signs Social Security Tax Hike, Dec 1977
Negatives – ‘Policy’ in green paper folder
Negatives – ‘Disability’ in green paper folder
Negatives – Join the March poster and FDR Signing
Negatives – ORS May 1990, in green paper folder
Negatives – Various Legislation, 76th, 81st, 84th, 89th Congresses
Negatives – SSA Washington Post photos of early history
Negatives – Signing of the 1935 Act, in green paper folder
Negatives – PSC 1989-1990, in green paper folder
Negatives – Newspaper page, The Romance of Medical Martyrdom, and the Fifth Congress Documents, in manila envelope
Negatives – Claims Operations, in manila folder
Negative – Poster, Social Security Records are Confidential!
Negatives – New York Herald Tribune, Aug. 15, 1935
Negatives – Fifth Congress of the US, 1797
Negatives – New York Times, May 25, 1937, Supreme Court Backs up SS
Negative – Poster, Presidents Speak
Negative – The Truth About Social Security – newspaper page
Negative – Further Proof of Deceit in New Payroll Tax, newspaper page, 3 copies
Negative – Newspaper clipping, Punch Sisters, Punch with care
Negatives – Leadership of Regional Offices, 1989
Negatives – New Orleans States – “Listing N.O. Workers”
Negatives – Office of Hearings and Appeals
Negatives – Herald Tribune, May 25, 1937
Negatives – 3 Steps to Security in Your Old Age
Negatives – Newspaper Clippings “1500 Moving into New SS Building” & ‘Funds Due City’
Negative – Interview text with Governor Alf Landon
Negative – Supreme Court Validates Security Act – broken negative
Negatives – “Why Social Security?” 15 pages (complete book)
Overhead Projector Slide – “From Account Number to Benefit”
Negative – “Pictorial Review of a Nation’s Quest for Social Security” Newspaper page
Negatives – Toward Social Security and Towards the Social Security Goal, newspaper articles
Negative – Postman Delivery first forms – print and negative
Negative – Grace Owen SS-5 Form
Negatives – Mr. Asquith papers
Negatives – Washington Post, May 25, 1937
Negatives – Andrew Whites letters and records about German Social Security
Negatives – Executive Order #6757, Establishing the Committee on Economic Security and the Advisory Council on Economic Security
Negative – Newspaper Clipping on Passage of SS Act and Constitutionality
Negative – Display Panel – Graphics Arts, Old Age Survivors & Disability Insurance, 1935 – Today, color negatives
Negatives – National Medicare Enrollment Month, March 1966, & 89th Congress of the US, Jan 1965, Medicare
Negative – Constitutionality of the Social Security Act (Cardozo)
Negatives – Early 20th Century proposed and enacted legislation in the state of Maryland
Negative – New York Times, 11/17/1936 – Article shows postmen coming out of Post Office
Negative – Social Security Act Amendments of 1939 HR 6635-39
Negatives – HR 14494, Dec 1909 A BILL, 2 pages
Negatives – Andrew White
Negatives – Whitelaw Reid
Negatives – Abe Bortz Negative and Sun Newspaper Article
Negatives an Prints – Reorganization Charts, Office photo portraits, and organizational information – in manila folder marked V2009
Negative – German and British Early Pension Plan
Negative – Camera Copy 1990 Dept. Evol., in brown folder
Negatives – Lacosse Checks
Negatives – Evolution of Regional Offices

Misc.

Photo Print – Depression Era – Car with truck tied on back in desert, passengers standing around
Photo Print – First Aid Nursery, woman with 18 children
Photo Print – Teacher talking to Children w/ Beware, Bearable Books sign in back – color photo
Photo Print – Man and Woman (who is on phone) in front of wall of monitors
Print – Copy of newspaper clipping “Toward Social Security” NY Times, Aug 15, 1937, 2 copies
Print – Pages 346-347 of The Annals of America: 1912 – copy printed on heavy cardboard
Photo – Headquarters DCC Staff Photo 1964
Photo Print – Hands placing coins above two men (one writing, one working) B/W, 2 copies
Photo Print – Old Man showing three boys toy trolley car
Brown Envelope – Contains group photos mounted to page size labels – about Field Offices in CO, MO, ID, etc
Photo Print – from negative 1027 – man pouring test mold while blast furnace is being tapped, Pittsburg, PA
Photo Print – from negative 1025 - man pouring test mold while blast furnace is being tapped, Pittsburg, PA
Print – Poster “The Background of Social Security” B/W photo montage with text, encased in Plexiglas
Photo Print – Close up photo of Arthur Altmeyer’s phone
Photo Print – Bonus Army Marchers – 7 copies, with 2 negatives
Photo Print – Group of people, seated, craning necks to see something, 1960s era, large, B/W, mounted on cardboard with gold trim – Most likely a photo of audience from when LBJ visited SSA HQ
Photo – “Tiniest Taxpayer” John Allen Rivers, baby picture, Nation’s first baby to receive SS card – 1987, photo, framed, along with newspaper clipping
Drawing – Cartoon “Objectives of Records Management are to:” – b/w and on scaling board for publication
Drawing – Cartoon “Records must be disposed of in accordance with SSA Records Retention and Disposal Schedules” – b/w on scaling board
Drawing – Cartoon “Records, Manual or Automated, must be protected from Unauthorized Access” – b/w on scaling board
Drawing – Cartoon “Records created and maintained Electronically must be properly Protected and Safeguarded” – b/w on scaling board
Photo – Social Security Building (Field Office) photo w/ two cars out front
Photo – “Old Folks in Poorhouse” 2 copies
Photo Print – “2. –legions of unemployed stormed state capitols-“ large print of building w/ crowd
Photo Print – Two children hanging onto a wrought iron fence
Photo Print – Mother in flower blouse holding a baby
Medal – Instituto Mexicano Del Seguro Social 1943-1978 35 Anos – stored in plastic case
Mouse Pad – Department of Health and Human Services
Envelopes – Payment Cycling, June, 1997, Department of the Treasury
Photo – Acme Newspaper Inc. 11/16/1936, File No. 6-12-1, mounted on green cardboard
Photo – Vincent Miles explains the wage record procedure to a child. File No. 5-1-2, mounted on green cardboard
Photo – 50th Million Account Card, File No. 2717-1, mounted on green cardboard
Photo – Millionth Benefit Pad Exhibit, File No. F 78-9, 11/10/1944 mounted on green cardboard
Photo – Exhibit of National Association of Social Sciences, File No. 3289-1, mounted on green cardboard
Photo – National Social Work Conference Exhibit, File No. 3533-2, mounted on green cardboard
Photo – Exhibit F-46, 11/12/1942, file No. 2419-1, mounted on green cardboard
Display Labels – 5 Panels about Telephone Units, SSA’s Telephone Service, the Metropolitan Answering Service, Toll-Free Nationwide “800” Number, and Improving Service – printed on cardboard
Display Photo – Men eating at table, Depression Era, green tint and mounted on triangular board
Photo – Reading class at Carlisle Indian Industrial School, PA, 1903
Photo – Three men sitting at table looking through cards, stacks of boxes in background
Card – Season’s Greetings from OASI Staff, 1949
Photo Collection – Unknown photos, man with pipe, duck hunter, lady in dress w/ children in background, group of ladies (negative), picture of an office looking onto street (negative) – all in Manila Envelope
Photo Collection – Boise, 1967, in Manila Envelope
Document – Form G-201, Aug, 1938, 6 copies
Document – Form G-201.2 Rev. 5-45, Social Security Board
Photo – Unemployment During the Depression – Soup Kitchens, 1937, mounted on green cardboard
Photo – Resettlement Administration, Unemployed workers hanging around street of Middleboro, KY, mounted on green cardboard
Photo – Unemployed Aid to Dependent Children, Man with family in doorway
Photo – Unemployed workers sitting in front of Café window in Pikeville, TN, mounted on green cardboard
Photo Print – Ruins of Alfred Murrah Building after the bombing, OK City.
Document – Travel Order Request for Harold A. Schafer, June 26, 1937
Photo – ‘In May 1937 the Supreme Court Upheld the Social Security Act’
Document – United States Civil Service Examinations, application form from Harold A Schafer, NY DO Manager
Award – Baltimore County Executive Proclamation, Asian Pacific American National Conference Days, May, 1992
Tote Bag – Blue cloth bag with white handles, “Third American Regional Conference” Sep. 1985, Washington DC
Documents & Booklets Collection – Inside the tote bag from the 1985 Regional Conference are related conference papers, handouts, programs, and other related materials.
Display Labels – long blue cardboard labels – “Social Security Act” and “SSA – The Road to Independence”
Document Print – Copy of White’s letter to State regarding the German Reichstag’s speech on Social Security, 1881, 2 pages, encased in individual Plexiglas, also clear envelope with photocopy prints of letter
Photos – Prints of various men and women from what appears to be the early 20th Century or late 19th. Mostly photo portraits
Document – The Bulletin, Armistice Day 1952 “There is no death!” poem
Document – The Buletin, Program for Memorial Day, May 30, 1958 w/ list of Honor Roll on back (those who died in WW2)
Document – Memorial Day Service, May 29, 1958
Drawing – Print of drawing of Candler Building
Drawing – Print of drawing of US Capitol Dome
Print – 67th Congress, yellow paper with red trim
Print – 93rd Congress, yellow paper with red trim
Print – 89th Congress, yellow paper with red trim
Print – Bill of Rights for Foster Children
Photo – Children playing on monkey bars
Photo – Small female child crossing her arms
Photo – Child in chair with hand to mouth and milk carton on table
Photo – Children playing, two under table, one girl in dress grabbing plate
Photo – Woman comforting distressed looking Asian girl
Photo – Dark haired boy sitting sideways in chair looking at camera
Photo – Children playing in sand play lot
Photo – Two young girls, one helping the other button her jacket
Photo – Teachers and children holding hands in circle, seated on carpet
Photo – Young girl in apple dress looking gobsmacked
Photo – Teacher looking down towards boy looking up and holding his milk
Documents – Form OAR-1001 Employee’s Ledger Sheet, marked JW Johnson and John Q. Public
Folder – SSA Careers with Social Security, Aug. 2005
Photos – Clear Envelope with many depression era photos of Children receiving care and out of work employees.
Artifacts – Two metal panels from the Visible Index, green painted metal
Document – Declaracion de Principios de la Seguridad Social Americana, Mexico 1960, encased in black leather case
Photo – Rear View of Type 705 Central Processing Unit
Photo – Child working in lumber mill
Photo – Child labor – sweat shop
Photo – Child labor – boy at press
Print – Copy of document, State of Illinois, Department of State, James A Rose, House Joint resolution No. 22
Photo – SSA 1-800-772-1213 AT&T FTS2000, ribbon cutting
Photo – Photo quartered into four segments, disability pictures
Print – International Social Security Agreements – text
Photo – SSA Employees who are also US Coast Guard Volunteers, April 1945, group photo
Photo – Ruins of Alfred Murrah Building, OK
Photo – Lady with five children holding SS cards, 1980s
Manila Folder – Child Welfare and Rehabilitation of Disabled Peoples books and related papers
Print – 106th Congress, first and last page, framed with white frame

Guide To Social Security ARCHIVES

Chapter 2: Flat Files

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