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Burning Building and Volunteer Fire Fighters

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Description: Volunteer fire fighters prepare to put out a fire on a roof. The fire company's hose cart is the vehicle with two large wheels which was attached to any av...
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Volunteers of America Dinner

Date: 11 26 1952
Description: Bessie Koen serves the first course of the traditional turkey-and-trimmings dinner to James Eckert. Dinner was served by the Volunteers of America to 56 me...
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Volunteers of America Dinner

Date: 11 26 1952
Description: Lt. Col. Frieda Nolte, officer in charge of the Madison post, welcomes Jenny Frothingham to a Thanksgiving dinner served by the Volunteers of America to 56...
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Red Cross Gray Ladies

Date: 03 04 1947
Description: The Red Cross Gray Ladies continue to offer their services at Wisconsin Memorial Hospital for veterans on the grounds of Mendota State Hospital. Two Gray ...
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Emma Teckemeyer

Date: 09 24 1947
Description: Emma Teckemeyer, ringing a doorbell, is a long-time volunteer for the Community Chest Campaign.
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Madison Chapter of Zonta International

Date: 11 04 1947
Description: Two women sorting magazines to be distributed to the Veterans' Hospital, Lake View Sanatorium and nursing homes in Madison. Left to right are Sgt. M. Pear...
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Madison Youth Council's Spring Clean-up Campaign

Date: 04 21 1948
Description: Jack Gay, left, and George Koehler, two of the leaders of the Madison Youth Council's spring clean-up campaign, are shown going over the final details for ...
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La Verne Haak, Chairman of Madison Youth Council Clean-up Campaign

Date: 04 28 1948
Description: La Verne Haak, chairman of the Madison Youth Council's second annual spring clean-up campaign, is shown with equipment to be used for the project. His tool...
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Marjorie Wise

Date: 06 16 1948
Description: Marjorie Wise, Mrs. John E. Wise, economist, researcher, organizer and housewife. President of the Wisconsin Federation of Women's Republican clubs.
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Benefit Dance Committee

Date: 06 25 1948
Description: Posing outdoors on the shoreline of a lake are, left to right: Clem McCann, Thomas McGuire, Kathleen Kellogg and Robert Dunn, committee members of "The Ass...
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Benefit Dance Committee

Date: 06 25 1948
Description: Co-chairmen of "The Assembly" dance committee are Harriet Sisk, on the left, and Marjorie Bolz on the right, posing outdoors on steps.
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Sorority Girls Knitting for Hospital Patients

Date: 10 11 1948
Description: Two sorority volunteers knitting for hospital patients that are unable to do handiwork themselves, but desire hand-made articles to give as gifts or to use...
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Joseph Bruno and Santos Caravello

Date: 11 01 1948
Description: Joseph Bruno and Santos Caravello. The two men testified regarding the importance of the Optimist Club in helping give them at an early age, as children li...
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Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross

Date: 11 01 1948
Description: Mrs. J.H. Svendsen, a volunteer Gray Lady of the Dane County Red Cross, shown tending patient's plants in the greenhouse at the Mendota hopsital for the me...
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Madison Altrusa Club

Date: 02 14 1949
Description: Madison Altrusa Club members inspecting a Madison General Hospital room which is maintained by the club. Left to right: Alfreda Fauerbach, 901 Jenifer Stre...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Volunteers

Date: 07 05 1949
Description: Looking over plans for a Soap Box Derby are volunteers Rolf Anderson, left, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.L.F. Anderson, DeForest, and Bobby Holm, son of Mr. and M...
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Junior Red Cross Training Camp

Date: 08 01 1949
Description: Four Madison high school youth are standing with their luggage near the entrance to a train car as they prepare to depart for the Red Cross training center...
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National President of UNICO

Date: 01 19 1950
Description: Standing is William Calvano, Milwaukee, national president of UNICO National, (Italian-American Service Organization - UNICO is the Italian word for unique...
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Vilas Park Island Clean Up Campaign

Date: 05 13 1950
Description: Three teenage girls are carrying shovels on their shoulders while crossing a wooden foot bridge. More than 150 Madison high school pupils recruited throug...
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American Red Cross Blood Center

Date: 06 07 1950
Description: Dr. Merle Owen Hamel (left), American Red Cross Blood Center physician, shows features of the center laboratory to Mrs. John Brown, volunteer representing ...

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