Photograph
Help for Fire Victims
| Bertha Atkinson, Baron Brothers Department Store buyer, fits a bootie on Norma Widener, 11-months old, being held by her mother Valera Widener. In the foreground is Lyall Widener, 3, who like his mother was severely burned. Behind Mrs. Atkinson is Josephine Coleman, whose son, John Collins Coleman, 11, was among the children helped by the Empty Stocking Club following a fire in the tenement-type house at 15 South Bedford Street, which killed Florence Dinger and three of her children. |
| Image ID: | 56140 |
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| Creation Date: | 11 28 1948 |
| Creator Name: | Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 |
| City: | Madison |
| County: | Dane |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Arthur M. Vinje photographs and negatives, circa 1914-circa 1962 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | negative, original |
| Original Format Number: | PH 6442.2100D |
| Original Dimensions: | 4 x 5 inches |
| One of 5 images. Published in the Wisconsin State Journal on Nov. 29, 1948. |
| Commercial buildings |
| Clothing and dress |
| Fires |
| Wounds and injuries |
| Children |
| Indoor photography |
| Men |
| Mothers |
| Women |
| Sales personnel |
| Stores, Retail |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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