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Volunteers of America Office & Service Shop

Date: 07 14 1933
Description: Volunteers of America Service Office and Service Shop, 414 S. Baldwin Street. Also shows the old Marquette School in the background.
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Chief McCormick Buying Forget-Me-Not

Date: 09 29 1932
Description: Chief of Police William McCormick buying the first Forget-me-not from the Disabled American Veterans on the Wisconsin State Capitol steps. Left to right: L...
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Volunteers of America Dinner

Date: 11 26 1952
Description: Lt. Col. Frieda Nolte, officer in charge of the Madison post, welcomes Jenny Frothingham to a Thanksgiving dinner served by the Volunteers of America to 56...
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Madison Altrusa Club

Date: 02 14 1949
Description: Altrusa Club members preparing for a benefit program for the club's scholarship and hospital fund, at which Kathryn Turney Garten will give a book review. ...
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Red Cross Peacetime Activities

Date: 02 26 1952
Description: The work of the Red Cross in peacetime is less well publicized than its wartime services. Pictured are Mrs. Ken (Betty) Kozasa, 320 West Dayton Street, cha...
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Alert America Convoy Exhibit Volunteers

Date: 05 13 1952
Description: Three volunteer supervisors who will be on hand to help explain the Alert America Convoy exhibit to visitors when it is at the University of Wisconsin-Madi...
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Madison Soap Box Derby

Date: 07 08 1953
Description: Portrait of four employees of Hult's Garage who will be in charge of transporting soap box derby racers and returning vehicles after the race. Left to righ...
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Altrusa Club Spring Garden Festival

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Lillian Simonson, Altrusa Club member and Marquette School principal, is shown giving a preview of a wishing well to youths Jerry Bailey and Janet Dahl.
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United Givers' Fund Planning Meeting

Date: 09 16 1957
Description: G. Frederick Wolff (left) and Warren Walder, chairmen of the general contractors, sheet metal and lathers sections for the United Givers' Fund, look at a l...
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United Givers' Fund Planning Meeting

Date: 08 16 1957
Description: Three members of the United Givers' Fund campaign committee discuss plans. They include Theodore, M. Meloy, associate chairman of the campaign; Kenneth Sul...
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United Givers' Fund Planning Meeting

Date: 09 16 1957
Description: Committee members F.G. Bruckman, Lloyd Severn, Philip J. Dickert and an unidentified man attend a meeting of the construction division for the United Giver...
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Mothers' March on Polio

Date: 01 07 1958
Description: Ward captains meet to plan the Mothers' March on Polio in connection with the Dane County March of Dimes. The Mothers' March will take place the night of J...
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United Givers' Meeting

Date: 10 28 1958
Description: Ted Meloy (second from right), drive chairman, stands at a podium while informing the group that they have obtained over half their goal. Listening, left t...
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Seratoma Club Members Selling Brooms

Date: 11 13 1959
Description: Five members of the Madison Seratoma Club, including, left to right, William Rowland, William Murphy, Harold Hueschen, Ray Sweeney, and Wendall Ward, holdi...
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GOP and Democratic Volunteers

Date: 09 12 1960
Description: Staff and volunteer workers stuff envelopes at state Republican headquarters. Left to right: Mrs. John Fish and Shirley Jasper (both volunteers); and staff...
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GOP and Democratic Workers

Date: 09 12 1960
Description: Marian Wilkie (right) makes out a receipt for a contribution to the Dane County Dollars for Democrats on the doorstep of 1930 Northwestern Avenue. Claire D...
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Empty Stocking Club Toy Depot

Date: 12 19 1961
Description: Donald Lawton, director of activities at Central Colony, left, consulting with Julian Clark, coordinator of volunteer services, right, and Mrs. Charles Jen...
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Madison General Hospital Disaster Training Drill

Date: 10 16 1965
Description: During a practice disaster drill, a nurse and a man are seen with a "casualty" on a stretcher at the Madison General Hospital emergency room. In this drill...
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New Volunteer Coordinator

Date: 03 07 1958
Description: Jo Nicholson, the new volunteer coordinator at Mendota State Hospital.
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Preparing Christmas Seals

Date: 11 07 1958
Description: One in a series of photographs depicting volunteers preparing a mailing of Christmas Seals as part of a campaign to raise funds to fight tuberculosis. Stan...

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