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Catholic Christ Child Circles

Date: 02 27 1956
Description: Attending a tea honoring long time members of Christ Child Club Circles are, left to right, Margaret Purcell, Laurine Bridge and Alice Gregg. They are look...
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Catholic Christ Child Circles

Date: 02 27 1956
Description: Attending a tea honoring long time members of Christ Child Club Circles are, left to right, Jeanette Foran, Mary Gox, Margaret Straub, and Rachel McKee. Th...
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Polio Kickoff Banquet

Date: 12 09 1953
Description: A.E. Whitford, W.K. Mansfield, Ted M. Meloy, and Carl Regenberg (left to right) discuss plans for the drive to raise $75,000 for the Dane County chapter of...
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Madison Exchange Club Collection for Salvation Army

Date: 12 07 1953
Description: Members of the Madison Exchange Club with one of five bathtubs they will have around Madison to collect money for the Salvation Army Christmas baskets for ...
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Polio Kickoff Banquet

Date: 12 09 1953
Description: R.W. Bardwell and Jack Donis, two officials of the Dane County chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, confer at the Polio Kickoff Banq...
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Polio Kickoff Banquet

Date: 12 09 1953
Description: Mrs. Stanley Beck, wife of a University of Wisconsin professor stricken with polio, talking with Marjorie Hagan, the city chairman of the National Foundati...
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Polio Kickoff Banquet

Date: 12 09 1953
Description: Co-chairmen for the Sun Prairie campaign confer at the kickoff banquet for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. They are Mrs. John McGonigle an...
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Polio Kickoff Banquet

Date: 12 09 1953
Description: Polio campaign workers Robert Leske, R.J. Scott, Dutch Midland, and Dr. Robert B. Helrey at the kickoff banquet for the National Foundation for Infantile P...
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Annual Christmas Charity Ball

Date: 12 29 1953
Description: The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. Four members of the decorations committee survey their handiwork. Left to right are: Reed Cole...
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Annual Christmas Charity Ball

Date: 12 29 1953
Description: The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. Joan Fagan, general chairperson for the ball, is helped with her coat by Denny Cosgrove. She i...
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Annual Christmas Charity Ball

Date: 12 29 1953
Description: The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. Walking up the stairs to the Crystal Ballroom are Mary Ann Hand, who was in charge of freshman...
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Annual Christmas Charity Ball

Date: 12 29 1953
Description: The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. Tom Stephan holds a box containing a corsage for his dance date, Jean McFarland. Standing on a...
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Annual Christmas Charity Ball

Date: 12 29 1953
Description: The annual Christmas Charity Ball held at the Loraine Hotel. This is the woodwind section with saxophones and clarinet of Eddie Lawrence's band, which play...
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Dane County American Legion Forty-and-Eight Banquet

Date: 03 28 1954
Description: At the Annual Dane County American Legion 40-and-8 banquet, they collected money for local charities. In the photograph R.C. Golden hands a check to Clyde ...
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Sewing Class at Blessed Martin House

Date: 05 11 1954
Description: Beatrice Braton straightening the dress she made for a doll at a sewing class at Blessed Martin House. The dolls will be sent to an orphanage overseas in J...
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Sewing Class at Blessed Martin House

Date: 05 21 1954
Description: Margaret Rogers and Patricia Ann Johnson are chatting while working on doll dresses during a sewing class at Blessed Martin House.
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Sewing Class at Blessed Martin House

Date: 05 11 1954
Description: Bonita Gill, Marcia Gulrud, Jeanette Braxton, and Ann Gulrud admiring the dolls they made dresses for during a sewing class at Blessed Martin House. The do...
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Sewing Class at Blessed Martin House

Date: 05 11 1954
Description: Maria Johnson and Patty Poppa are looking on as Donna Harris is adjusting a sewing machine at Blessed Martin House. The girls in the sewing class made dres...
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40 and 8 Convention

Date: 07 15 1954
Description: Everett C. Gerry, Wisconsin National Gurad 40 and 8 Child Welfare Director, is shown eating a meal at the convention, held in the Elks Club.
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Girl Praying for a Bright Christmas

Date: 11 17 1954
Description: A young girl kneeling at the side of a bed accompanies a plea for donating to the Empty Stocking Club organized by the Wisconsin State Journal. A st...

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