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| Date: | 10 29 1954 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin President E.B. Fred receives a check from Dr. Robin Allin of the Wisconsin Heart Association. Looking on is John Wrage, chairman of... |
| Date: | 11 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Stanley F. Tucker, chairman of the annual Christmas seal sale to fight tuberculosis, diplays samples of the wishing wells made by volunteer workers at Lake... |
| Date: | 11 23 1954 |
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| Description: | Monte Allen, age eight, reads about the need for donations for the Empty Stocking Club in the Wisconsin State Journal. The Club, sponsored by the |
| Date: | 11 23 1954 |
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| Description: | Monte Allen, age eight, saves money for the Empty Stocking Club by putting coins into his piggy bank. The Club, sponsored by the Wisconsin State Journal... |
| Date: | 11 23 1954 |
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| Description: | Monte Allen, age eight, dreams of children receiving toys from the Empty Stocking Club as a result of his and others' donations. The Club, sponsored by the... |
| Date: | 11 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Marcia Holten, age 3 and a half, holds a Musical Duck pull toy she received from the Empty Stocking Club, as imagined in Monte Allen's dream. The Club, spo... |
| Date: | 11 23 1954 |
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| Description: | Jeffery Radder, age five, holds a football he received from the Empty Stocking Fund, as imagined in Monte Allen's dream. The Club, sponsored by the Wisc... |
| Date: | 10 23 1954 |
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| Description: | Rebecca Rae Rodgerson, age three, hugs a doll she received from the Empty Stocking Club, as imagined in Monte Allen's dream. The club, sponsored by the ... |
| Date: | 11 23 1954 |
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| Description: | John Prindle, age three, holds a toy car he received from the Empty Stocking Club, as imagined in Monte Allen's dream. The Club, sponsored by the Wiscon... |
| Date: | 11 24 1954 |
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| Description: | Four firefighters wearing working gear and positioned about a fire truck posing with a sign stating: "Firefighters March on Muscular Dystrophy." On the bac... |
| Date: | 11 23 1954 |
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| Description: | Jane Curran, age seven, posing with a book on children's poems she received from the Empty Stocking Club, as imagined in Monte Allen's dream. The club, spo... |
| Date: | 12 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Committee members making arrangements for the Christmas Charity Ball, an event for college students and young married couples in Madison. Seated left to ri... |
| Date: | 12 23 1954 |
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| Description: | Louise Marston (right), society editor, accepts a check from three barbershop singers for the Wisconsin State Journal's Empty Stocking Fund. The don... |
| Date: | 12 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Nancy McVee, recently recovered from tuberculosis after being treated in a sanatorium for five years. During that time, she took correspondence... |
| Date: | 12 28 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. William J. (Salome) Fix, caretaker of premature babies at St. Mary's Hospital, holds one of her tiny patients. She was diagnosed with polio in 1949. |
| Date: | 12 28 1954 |
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| Description: | Jack W. Thomas, a service manager at Ray-O-Vac International, was diagnosed with polio in 1952 while in the Belgian Congo. |
| Date: | 12 28 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Arnold (Elizabeth) Griswold sitting in a wheelchair beside her family. She was diagnosed with polio in 1949. |
| Date: | 12 27 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Judith Lokken, a grandmother of three, was diagnosed with polio in August 1954 but is now virtually recovered. |
| Date: | 12 28 1954 |
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| Description: | Everett L. Liddicoat, an insurance agent and 4-year veteran of the Army Air Corps, was diagnosed with polio in 1949. |
| Date: | 03 14 1955 |
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| Description: | The family of David Lindl, the 1956 "Easter Seal Boy", eating breakfast. They include, from left: father Frank C. Lindl; Dennis, age 17 months; mother Marg... |
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