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Red Cross Worker with Two Clients

Date: 02 12 1945
Description: Volunteer Mrs. F.F. (Louise) Bowman, Jr., sitting at the information desk at Dane County Red Cross Headquarters, 315 North Carroll Street, is assisting Tec...
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Madison Jaycettes

Date: 01 28 1948
Description: Members of the Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce auxiliary, "Jaycettes," addressing 3000 letters to be mailed to Dane County residents as part of a fund ...
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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 Activities

Date: 03 05 1951
Description: Three volunteers of the University of Wisconsin College Unit complete Red Cross clerical work. They are, left to right, Jean Eggebrecht, Wausau, Jennie Stu...
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League of Women Voters Statewide Radio Program

Date: 09 10 1951
Description: Frances Hurst (left) and Marcella Gill (right) listen to voice recordings at the WIBA radio broadcasting studio. Hurst was chairman of the WHA radio progra...
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Dane County 4-H Leaders

Date: 02 02 1952
Description: Three Dane County 4-H leaders are given gold wrist watches by William J. Kimball, Madison, County 4-H Agent, as awards for outstanding club work in state c...
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Leonard Schmitt Talkathon

Date: 08 12 1952
Description: Volunteer telephone workers take questions phoned in for Leonard F. Schmitt, Merrill attorney, who is challenging U.S. Senator Joseph B. McCarthy for the R...
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Recruiting Polio Emergency Volunteers

Date: 06 18 1953
Description: Jean Welsch uses the telephone to recruit volunteers for the Polio Emergency Volunteer training course. At her side is her son Bobby, age 3 1/2 years, who ...
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Junior Division of the University League

Date: 09 28 1953
Description: Beth Ross is sitting at a typewriter while her husband, John E., is holding their two-month-old son, Tommy. Beth is the president of the Junior Division of...
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William Dewey with Folding Machine

Date: 11 07 1953
Description: William Dewey of Visual Education Consultants, Inc. operates a folding machine that prepares manuals to accompany news and curriculum filmstrips.
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Catholic Church Bazaar

Date: 11 09 1954
Description: Lynn Dudley serves as a model for one of the sweaters which will be on sale at the annual bazaar sponsored by the women of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Cat...
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National Civil Defense Week

Date: 08 27 1956
Description: Edward Northrup (seated) and Jan Macdonald are volunteer sky watchers in the Ground Observer Corps. From the top of the Belmont Hotel, they scan the sky an...
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University of Wisconsin Dames Club Babysitting Project

Date: 03 01 1953
Description: Julia Jose, chairman of the University Dames Club cooperative baby sitting project, talking on the telephone.
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 07 01 1957
Description: Portrait of Martha Stolz and Gladys Murphy, two volunteer members of the Red Cross blood donor committee, who make calls to request blood donations.
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 07 01 1957
Description: Florence Gill, a volunteer blood donor for the Red Cross, receiving a call from a volunteer requesting a donation.
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Women's Auxiliary to the Dane County Bar Association

Date: 01 03 1958
Description: Plans are being completed for the organization of a Women's Auxiliary to the Dane County Bar Association. Wives of the lawyers will make up the membership....
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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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Kathy Rochwite

Date: 02 1999
Description: Kathy Rochwite photographs Cambellsport wrestlers at the WIAA Wrestling Finals at the Kohl Center in Madison.
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Gifts For Neurological Patients

Date: 09 29 1960
Description: Pauline Dubner, a patient at the Wisconsin Neurological Foundation, poses in her hospital bed next to a new record player in a case. Behind her stand the f...
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Give 'till It Helps...Yes, Someone Cares

Date: 10 03 1961
Description: The Madison Chapter of Certified Public Accountants, donate about three nights of work a week to auditing the United Givers fund. Among them are Donald Nel...

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