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| Date: | 02 19 1948 |
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| Description: | The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) instigated a collection of eyeglasses to send overseas. Most of the eyeglasses are being sent to Austria at this... |
| Date: | 02 27 1948 |
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| Description: | Sisters Suzanne and Jane LaCourt, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. H.A. LaCourt, donating their "choo-gum" savings of 79 cents to Dorothy Davis, head of the bookk... |
| Date: | 03 02 1948 |
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| Description: | Honorary city commander of the Madison branch of the Wisconsin Division of the American Cancer society, Mrs. Oscar (Mary) Rennebohm, was given a citation b... |
| Date: | 04 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Governor Oscar Rennebohm met with executive committee members of Christian Rural Overseas Program (CROP), to endorse the relief food program the organizati... |
| Date: | 06 25 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 25 1948 |
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| Description: | Co-chairmen of "The Assembly" dance committee are Harriet Sisk, on the left, and Marjorie Bolz on the right, posing outdoors on steps. |
| Date: | 07 08 1948 |
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| Description: | View from road of large stacks of boxes containing food and clothing on the lawn of Congregation Adas Jeshurun temple at the corner of Mound and Murray Str... |
| Date: | 07 13 1948 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Governor Rennebohm with nine men looking at a boxcar of the CROP (Christian Rural Overseas Program) train. The nine-carload train contain... |
| Date: | 09 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Three officials of the Madison Community Chest drive shown examining two awards at the "kick-off" meeting for the advance gifts division. At left is Theron... |
| Date: | 09 17 1948 |
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| Description: | Members of the youth speakers' committee of the Madison Youth Council making plans for their part in the Community Chest drive. Left to right: David Matson... |
| Date: | 10 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Three division chairmen view the trophy that will be awarded to the division that attains the highest percentage of its quota for the Madison Community Che... |
| Date: | 09 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Jerome H. (Helen) Coe and Mrs. Wayne K. Loveland, who are two members of the Madison Community Chest campaign headquarters staff, shown at the office ... |
| Date: | 10 04 1948 |
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| Description: | Madison Community Chest campaign women's division chairman, Mrs. Paul Knaplund (left) and her co-chairman, Mrs. T.C. (Emily) Erickson at entrance to the ca... |
| Date: | 10 11 1948 |
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| Description: | The Madison Community Chest campaign kick-off luncheon at Grace Episcopal Church. Shown at the speakers table, clockwise from the left are: F. Halsey Kraeg... |
| Date: | 10 14 1948 |
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| Description: | James Ketchum, left, and Annette Nelson, right, members of the Madison Youth Council, admire their display in the window of Moseley's Book Store, which was... |
| Date: | 11 16 1948 |
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| Description: | Seven members of the Madison CARE committee looking at a poster about CARE Week. Left to right are Rev. W.B. Waltmire, Madison Council of Churches; Rabbi ... |
| Date: | 11 23 1948 |
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| Description: | Fritz Hanson, Peggy Huiskamp, and Winifred Grant of Wisconsin High School, are shown checking on the drive for toys which the school's Junior Red Cross Cou... |
| Date: | 11 27 1948 |
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| Description: | "Members of new Girl Scout Troop No. 7 of St. James' church are completing their fourth Girl Scout clothing kit to be sent to needy children overseas." |
| Date: | 11 26 1948 |
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| Description: | Governor Oscar Rennebohm was honored by the citizens of Vienna, Austria, for Wisconsin citizens' contributions to the "American Silent Guest committee" of ... |
| Date: | 12 02 1948 |
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| Description: | Seven girls are shown holding eight puppies. The girls are members of the Poll Parrot Club which raised the Labrador mix puppies. They intend to sell them ... |
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