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Frame 27: Integrated Canvassing

Date: 1964
Description: Two women stand on the porch of a home. Three men, probably Freedom Summer volunteers, are talking to them.
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Frame 49: Signs of the Three

Date: 08 1964
Description: A nighttime rally on the Atlantic City boardwalk in support of the Mississipi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP). Three people in front of the group carry sig...
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Frame 79: Freedom!

Date: 08 1964
Description: A young man at a nighttime rally (perhaps at a demonstration during the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City) in support of the MFDP. Behind him...
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Dane County Medical Auxilliary Charter Members

Date: 04 15 1958
Description: These five charter members of the Dane County Medical auxiliary were special guests of honor at the organization's luncheon meeting. The women are Hilda Ew...
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NAACP Members Admire Prize Book

Date: 04 15 1958
Description: Five people admire a book entitled "Go South To Sorrow" which will be given as a prize for the NAACP's Madison branch membership drive at the annual freedo...
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St. Mary's Hospital Open House

Date: 08 11 1960
Description: Sister M. Geraldine, S.M., administrator of St. Mary's hospital, explains the tour guide to volunteer planners of the fall open house and membership tea. S...
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Joan Hentchel, Miss Wisconsin, Named Miss Red Feather

Date: 10 18 1957
Description: Miss Wisconsin, Joan Hentchel, is named Miss Red Feather by the Madison United Givers' Fund. She is shown receiving the award from campaign chairman Charle...
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Junior Red Cross Blood Drive Recruitment

Date: 05 29 1958
Description: Preparing letters to high school students congratulating them on their 18th birthday and inviting them to join the Junior Red Cross "18 Club" of blood dono...
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Junior Red Cross Blood Drive Recruitment

Date: 05 29 1958
Description: Dick Johnson, center, with a birthday cake, being honored as the first blood donor recruited by the Junior Red Cross "18 Club. At left is Carla Helmus, Eas...
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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. Help...
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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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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 fight tuberculosis. Volunteers, shown w...
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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 fight tuberculosis. Virginia Bowen, lef...
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St. Mary's Hospital Auxiliary Tea

Date: 11 13 1958
Description: Three of the auxiliary members of St. Mary's Hospital attending their annual tea. Wearing their uniforms are, left to right: Mrs. Eugene Connor, Rose Haley...
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Shirley and Mary Wright

Date: 04 27 1959
Description: Mary Wright, left, holds the telephone for her mother Shirley, who is chair of the upcoming annual spring luncheon of the Daughters of Demeter organization...
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Attic Angels' Luncheon

Date: 04 28 1959
Description: Virginia Purnell, left, introduces three new probationary members of the Attic Angels, left to right: Cath. Burnham, Mrs. W.G. Hotchkiss, and Virginia Hall...
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Attic Angels' Luncheon

Date: 04 21 1959
Description: Present at the Attic Angels' annual business luncheon are two probationary members, Gail Stebbins and Arietta Hastings, left, with Attic Angels members, An...
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Attic Angels' Luncheon

Date: 04 28 1959
Description: Three new board members of the Attic Angels Association at the annual business luncheon are, left to right: Gene Johnson, Dorcas Nickles, and Theodora Kubl...
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Government Workers Blood Drive

Date: 01 05 1961
Description: Red Cross Nurse Janis Clothier is shown at right holding a container. With her are four building inspectors during a Red Cross blood drive for government w...
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Hearing Screening Tests at Lincoln School

Date: 02 04 1961
Description: Seven-year-old Billy Roughton, wearing earphones, having his hearing tested by Barbara Dahle, left, a public health nurse with the Madison Health Departmen...

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