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Cub Scouts at Christmas Tree

Date: 12 06 1948
Description: Ten cub scouts from Cub Pack 319 placing gifts for less fortunate boys and girls under a Christmas tree at Marquette School. Standing, left to right, are J...
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Help for Fire Victims

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Joseph Rothschild, manager; Bertha Atkinson, buyer and Freda Kitson, saleswoman opened the children's and infants' department at Baron Brothers Department ...
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Young Women Benefit Dance Sponsors

Date: 12 14 1948
Description: Group of seven young women who are sponsoring a benefit dance for the Empty Stocking fund. Pictured, left to right, are: Mrs. E.H. (Joyce) Sticha, Mrs. Mar...
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Allis School Pre-School and Kindergarten Club

Date: 12 14 1948
Description: Members of the Allis School Pre-School and Kindergarten club in the school auditorium refinishing old toys and making other Christmas gifts for sick and ne...
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"Walk for Development" Poster

Date: 10 1971
Description: Poster publicizing a "Walk for Development" event, put on by Young World Development. Features three fists with different skin tones, and the motto, "The R...
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Empty Stocking Club Toy Depot

Date: 12 20 1948
Description: Three volunteers distributing Christmas gifts at the Wisconsin State Journal Empty Stocking Toy Depot. Volunteers, left to right: Mrs. F.R. (Alice)...
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"Roundy" With Four Dells Boys

Date: 12 23 1948
Description: "Roundy" with four men from Wisconsin Dells holding milk bottles full of donated money they collected for "Roundys" Fun Fund. Left to right are "Roundy" C...
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Yule Collections

Date: 12 23 1948
Description: Dorothy Blank receiving donated money for the Empty Stocking Club from newspaper carrier boy Gordon Schaaf in front of a Christmas tree.
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Roundy Coughlin and his "Roundy's Fun Club" Parking Meter

Date: 01 05 1949
Description: Roundy Coughlin, Wisconsin State Journal sports reporter, standing with the parking meter he uses to raise money for his "Roundy's Fun Club" for han...
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Roundy Coughlin and Bernard Gill

Date: 01 14 1949
Description: Roundy Coughlin, right, turning over to Bernard Gill, secretary of Roundy's Fun Fund, a check for $4,000.25. This money is used for the handicapped childre...
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'March of Dimes' Drive

Date: 01 13 1949
Description: Mable Barton, Leone Hartman, Dorothy Mueller, and Dr. Christine Thelen, all members of the Madison Business and Professional Women's club, with thousands o...
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Charity Contribution Container in Sheriff's Office

Date: 02 04 1949
Description: Sheriff Herman P. Kerl, and Sally Penfield, with the four-gallon glass bottle for collecting donations to the "State Journal" Empty Stocking club, the Kidd...
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Race of Dimes

Date: 02 05 1949
Description: Two children in wheelchairs, Jean Bokina, left, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bokina and right, Steven Butts, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Freeman Butts, with ...
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Preparing for YWCA Benefit Party

Date: 02 07 1949
Description: Three women preparing for a YWCA benefit party to send representatives to an YWCA conference. Delores Nelson, left, is painting a poster. Violet Fisher, c...
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Madison Interracial Sewing Group

Date: 02 15 1949
Description: A group of women mending clothes for the Quakers' relief clothing project at one of their regular Tuesday morning sessions at the home of Mrs. Hilton E. (L...
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Community Chest Annual Dinner

Date: 02 07 1949
Description: Attending the annual dinner of the Madison Community Chest are, left to right: Chief Justice Marvin Rosenberry, first president of the organization; Stanle...
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Madison Altrusa Club

Date: 02 14 1949
Description: Altrusa Club members preparing for a benefit program for the club's scholarship and hospital fund, at which Kathryn Turney Garten will give a book review. ...
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Madison Altrusa Club

Date: 02 14 1949
Description: Miss Gay Braxton, director of the Neighborhood House and chairman of the Altrusa Club scholarship fund, at right, with two graduate students of the Univers...
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American Heart Association Volunteers

Date: 02 15 1949
Description: Three Madison women who have been working on the Madison and Dane County drive for the American Heart Association. From left are Mrs. Frederick, chairman o...
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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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