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March of Dimes Contribution

Date: 01 05 1955
Description: A toddler is inserting a dime into a March of Dimes collection board as her mother is holding her in her arms and looking on. The collection is to raise mo...
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Food Drive for Thanksgiving

Date: 11 18 1965
Description: Elementary school students collect nonperishable food to be distributed by the Salvation Army.
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Children Receiving Food Parcels from the Boys and Girls Club

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Description: Children lined up outside a pharmacy to receive potatoes, eggs, and other items packaged by the Boys and Girls Club.
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American Legion Men with Christmas Toys

Date: 12 21 1935
Description: American Legion group outdoors at Breese Stevens field with Christmas toys, which were distributed to American Legion children.
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Channel 10 Auction

Date: 04 27 1976
Description: The set of the fundraising auction of Channel 10, Milwaukee's public television station. Senator William Proxmire is standing to the left of the closed B B...
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War Chest Day's Pay Pledge

Date: 10 04 1945
Description: Madison Building and Construction Trades workers on the job at the Hoofer Glass Co. take time out to sign their pledge cards for one day's pay to the Madis...
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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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Neighborhood House

Date: 1940
Description: Exterior view of the Neighborhood House at 766 West Washington Avenue.
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Teens at Clothing Drive

Date: 04 20 1945
Description: Five high school teenagers at the LOFT, donating used clothing to the Dane County clothing drive. The teenagers, left to right, are Bob Drake, Gene Bliss, ...
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Paper Drive

Date: 08 11 1945
Description: Members of the Junior Red Cross, Boy Scouts of Troops 20 and 30, and boys of Madison, sitting on the back of a Truax Field army truck loaded with waste pap...
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Empty Stocking Club

Date: 11 29 1947
Description: In the lobby of the Capitol Theatre, manager Fred Reeths is holding Johnny Heitz while he drops a coin into the Empty Stocking Club stocking. Johnny's moth...
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Empty Stocking Club's Toy Depot

Date: 12 17 1947
Description: Three workers setting up "Santa's Shop" at the Empty Stocking Club's toy depot at the Madison Community Center, 16-20 East Doty Street. The club is sponsor...
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Young Adult Club with Wishing Well

Date: 01 23 1948
Description: Five members of the Young Adult Club dropping coins into a wishing well during a dance at the Community Center to aid the March of Dimes. Pictured left to ...
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March of Dimes Wheelchair Race

Date: 02 09 1948
Description: Members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce south team, who took part in the "Race for Dimes" to raise money for the March of Dimes. Standing left to right: ...
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CROP Train

Date: 07 13 1948
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...
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Women Volunteers for the Community Chest

Date: 09 04 1948
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 ...
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Women Volunteers for the Community Chest

Date: 10 04 1948
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...
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Community Chest Fund Luncheon

Date: 10 11 1948
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...
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Madison Youth Council Activities

Date: 10 14 1948
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...
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Junior Red Cross Council Toy Drive

Date: 11 23 1948
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...

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