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Picket Line at Milwaukee City Hall

Date: 09 23 1946
Description: Public Workers Strike - Milwaukee members of the United Public Workers, tiring of a series of stalls on their legitimate wage demands, take to the street a...
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UAW-CIO Local 75 Election

Date: 12 1946
Description: Members of the United Automobile Workers union, Local 75, line up outside the local's headquarters, 308 E. Center Street, to vote on delegates to the union...
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Dairy Cooperative Supports Packinghouse Workers Strike

Date: 03 22 1948
Description: A driver for Dairy Distributors, Inc. cooperative of Watertown, Wisconsin delivering milk to strikers' soup kitchen.

"Several dairies have volunteered to...

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Stocking the Strike Kitchen of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers

Date: 03 22 1948
Description: Workers stocking the strike kitchen of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers of America (Plankinton Packing Company). Left to right: Fred Koratko, Corneli...
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Red Cross Blood Bank Donors

Date: 02 03 1944
Description: Group of 67 people from Viola, Wisconsin, who came by bus to donate blood to the American Red Cross Blood Bank.
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Red Cross Blood Bank Donors

Date: 02 03 1944
Description: Group of 22 people from Wilton, Wisconsin, who came by bus to donate blood to the American Red Cross Blood Bank.
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Shorewood Hills League Officers

Date: 05 26 1944
Description: Shorewood Hills League officers on the lawn of the Blackhawk Country Club: Mrs. L.R. Cole (Margaret Cole), Mrs. R.W. Sy (Nettie D. Sy), Mrs. M.R. Irwin (Ma...
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Children at Junior Red Cross Picnic

Date: 05 26 1944
Description: Children in line at the canteen at the Junior Red Cross picnic.
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Boy Scout Camporee at Olin Park

Date: 05 27 1944
Description: Boy Scouts at the Dane District Boy Scout Camporee at Olin Park shown grouped about their tents.
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AAA Tour Cars

Date: 05 14 1944
Description: Men doing a periodic rotation of the synthetic and recapped tires on one of the two cars parked in front of the Park Hotel, and participating in the Americ...
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Boy Scout Troop 5

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Outdoor group portrait of Boy Scout Troop 5, with Scoutmaster J.J. Feeney and Assistant Scoutmaster Bill Lavin. Photograph was taken in front of their new ...
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West Side Garden Club Party

Date: 06 27 1944
Description: Two members of the West Side Garden Club wearing their hats created from vegetable material. From left: Mrs. Paul H. (Mary) Rehfeld, and Mrs. Thomas C. (Ve...
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West Side Garden Club Party

Date: 06 27 1944
Description: Two members of the West Side Garden Club wearing hats created from vegetable material. From left: Mrs. Henry A. Pochmann (Ruth) and Mrs. R.A. (Mary) Walker...
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Girls at Camp Maria Olbrich

Date: 07 06 1944
Description: Five girls in a row boat on Lake Mendota at the YWCA's Camp Maria Olbrich. Seated left to right: Volala Still, Jane Botham, Doris Elliott, Gloria Trader, a...
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League of Women Voters Garden Party

Date: 06 24 1944
Description: League of Women Voters garden party at the gubernatorial mansion. The following guests are standing the garden, left to right: Mrs. John E. Martin (Mary Ma...
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Imogene Boggs

Date: 10 03 1944
Description: Miss Imogene Boggs, membership chairman of the Business and Professional Women's Club, standing next to her truck. She was the owner of the Suburban Gas an...
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Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary

Date: 10 05 1944
Description: Four members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, including Mrs. Hazel Miller, the national president, in a horse-drawn carriage in front of the Chic...
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Red Cross Workers with Supplies

Date: 02 12 1945
Description: Red Cross Motor Corps workers, Mrs. John (Marjorie) Haley and Mrs. E.W. (Thelma) Nystrom, loading a large basket of Navy kits into a truck to await distrib...
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Students with Clothing for Clothing Drive Collection

Date: 05 01 1945
Description: Eleven students from Highlands-Mendota holding clothes collected for the Madison and Dane County clothing drive. Pictured are room captains, first row left...
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Women Golfer Foursome

Date: 05 23 1945
Description: Women foursome from the Blackhawk and Nakoma Country Clubs.

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