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Four Women Volunteers at Red Cross Workshop

Date: 02 24 1944
Description: Red Cross volunteers from Christ Presbyterian Church working on "scruffies" for hospitalized soldiers at Truax Field. Left to right are Mrs. H.L. Yeager, R...
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Red Cross War Fund Drive Leaders

Date: 02 19 1944
Description: Red Cross War Fund Drive leaders sitting at a table discussing plans for war fund drive. Left to Right: James R. Law, June B. Wheeler, Louis Hirsig, Alden ...
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College Student Telling a Story to Children

Date: 03 08 1944
Description: Dorothy Stebnitz, student at the University of Wisconsin, telling a story to two children, Pricilla Dee Brown and Stefan Burr, at the Dykstra House Nursery...
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Girl Scouts Training at Washington Orthopedic School

Date: 03 22 1944
Description: Dane County Unit of the Association for the Disabled training members of Girl Scout Troop No. 6 at the Washington Orthopedic School for Crippled Children, ...
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Governor Goodland and Little Friends of America School Children

Date: 03 23 1944
Description: Slightly elevated group portrait of Governor Goodland signing a scrapbook prepared by the Little Friends of America, Baraboo children's organization, for t...
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Three Women at YWCA Tea

Date: 04 26 1944
Description: Silver tea, benefiting the YWCA at the Governor's residence, 130 E. Gilman Street. Shown standing around a silver tray and bottle, tokens of the christenin...
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Four Women at YWCA Tea

Date: 04 26 1944
Description: Silver tea, benefiting the YWCA at the Governor's residence, 130 E. Gilman Street. Shown seated are Mae Loeffelbein, Anna Johnson, Madeleine Johnson, and H...
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The Reverend John Clayton and Bob Clark

Date: 05 18 1944
Description: The Reverend John Clayton and Bob Clark, looking at a cartoon while sitting on a cot in the boys' hostel at the Samuel Post farm on Middleton Road.
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Shorewood Hills League Members

Date: 05 26 1944
Description: Shorewood Hills League members attending luncheon at the Blackhawk Country Club, Mrs. T.W. Doig (Beulah Doig), Mrs. Sydney Miller (Myrtle Miller), Mrs. Arc...
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League of Women Voters Garden Party

Date: 07 24 1944
Description: League of Women Voters garden party attended by more than 1,000 people. It was held at the Governor's Residence, 130 East Gilman Street. At the punch table...
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Madison Woman's Club "Home Front" Tea

Date: 08 02 1944
Description: Five members of the Madison Woman's Club. Left to right, Mrs. H.J. (Dorothy) Schubert, Mrs. L.L. (Gertrude) North, Mrs. C.K. (Helen) Schubert, Mrs. Georg...
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Polio Survey

Date: 08 09 1944
Description: James R. Law, chairman of the Dane County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Palmer F. Daugs, Lake Mills, representative of the Na...
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Packing Red Cross Christmas Boxes

Date: 09 09 1944
Description: Lois Wiessinger, Michael Mack, and Harold Stone, state employees, filled 21,600 Christmas packages to be sent by the American Red Cross to hospitalized ser...
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Tea at the Governor's Residence

Date: 10 01 1944
Description: Officers of the Wisconsin Business and Professional Women's Club attending a tea at the Governor's Residence, 130 E. Gilman Street. Left to right around th...
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M. Pearl Guynes

Date: 10 03 1944
Description: Miss M. Pearl Guynes, member of the Business and Professional Women's Club and recently appointed sergeant of the Madison Police Department, sitting at her...
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Home Economics Club Meeting

Date: 10 16 1944
Description: Three women at a meeting of the Madison Home Economics Club with the theme "Good Nutrition, A Wartime Challenge." Mrs. Irving (Clara) Johnson, president of...
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Madison Home Economics Club Meeting

Date: 10 16 1944
Description: Three women and three children at a meeting of the Madison Home Economics Club with the theme "Good Nutrition, A Wartime Challenge." Left to right are Mrs....
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Madison Woman's Club Annual Benefit Party

Date: 10 24 1944
Description: Participating in the annual Woman's Club benefit party are Shorewood Hills League members, left to right: Mrs. Walter (Clare) Weissinger, 1241 Sweet Briar ...
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Madison Woman's Club Annual Benefit Party

Date: 09 24 1944
Description: Participating in the Madison Woman's Club annual benefit party by sewing for the Russian War Relief are members of the Shorewood Hills League, left to righ...
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Madison Army Officers' Wives Club

Date: 11 10 1944
Description: Five officers' wives at the Madison Army Officers' Wives club meeting held at the Capital Hotel. From left to right: Mrs. Thomas Holstein, acting president...

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