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United Givers' Fund Volunteer

Date: 10 23 1956
Description: Betty J. DiSalvo reading good night stories to her children, Michael DiSalvo (age 6) and Mark DiSalvo (age 4) after having solicited money for 27 Red Feath...
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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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Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross

Date: 11 01 1948
Description: Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross sorting books at the library of Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Left to right: Mrs. Frederick Hillyer, and ...
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Madison General Hospital Auxiliary

Date: 01 02 1951
Description: Madison General Hospital Auxiliary volunteer worker Mabel Lewis reading to Billy McCord, patient.
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U.W. Student Service Projects

Date: 12 10 1951
Description: Harriet Kirchhoff, Delta Gamma Sorority member, reading to a blind student, Robert Langford, as part of a University of Wisconsin Student Service project. ...
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West High School Girls' Club Christmas Activities

Date: 12 08 1954
Description: Four girls singing while looking down at their caroling books and holding candles and dressed for the outdoors. They are Diane Gensichen, Sally Tisdale, Su...
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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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Teacher and Student

Date: 1965
Description: A white volunteer teaches a young African-American boy at a desk in front of a bookcase. Used in a brochure with the title, 'SNCC Summer 1965.'
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Student Has Radical Brain Surgery

Date: 09 23 1964
Description: Mark Newman is shown sitting behind a stack of books as he returns to La Follette High School three weeks after radical surgery for a brain tumor. Behind h...
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Red Cross Gray Ladies Volunteer at the Wisconsin Diagnositc Center

Date: 03 04 1958
Description: Red Cross Gray Lady Miss Ida Gangstad (right, 407 N. Henry Street), who taught library methods at the University of Wisconsin Extension Division from 1930 ...
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U.W. Dames Club Nursery School

Date: 02 13 1959
Description: Young children paying attention to their teacher, Beverly McCumber, who is reading a picture book at a cooperative nursery school at Bashford Methodist Chu...
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Benefit Co-chairmen of the Dane County Medical Auxiliary

Date: 03 27 1959
Description: Mary Jefferson Davis and Nancy Taborsky viewing a book. They were co-chairwomen of the Dane County Medical auxiliary's benefit dinner dance. Proceeds went ...

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