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Gisholt Employees Donate to Good Neighbor Fund

Date: 09 16 1950
Description: Caroline Genske, an office worker at Gisholt Machine Company, starts the process of check writing for the nearly one hundred percent participation of the c...
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Youngster Contributors to Roundy's Fun Fund

Date: 09 16 1950
Description: "Roundy" Coughlin sitting on a stoop with some neighborhood children who put on a magic show to collect money for Roundy's Fun Fund for handicapped kids.
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Effie Stringer Coffman

Date: 09 19 1950
Description: Portrait of Effie Stringer Coffman, founder of a Catholic sewing circle that made clothing and provided other help to unfortunate children. She founded St....
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Student Speakers' Bureau

Date: 09 27 1950
Description: Five members of the student speakers' bureau for the United Givers' Fund posing for a group portrait. Speaking at right: Peter Noer, West High School. Seat...
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Goodwill Workshop

Date: 09 09 1949
Description: As part of its participation in the local Community Fund, several members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 117 employed by the Kingan Packing Company v...
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United Givers' Fund

Date: 10 06 1950
Description: Group portrait of the volunteer workers of the United Givers' Fund at their planning meeting for solicitation of business and industrial firms for their an...
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Madison United Givers' Fund First Drive

Date: 10 16 1950
Description: Three Madison citizens involved in directing the United Givers' Fund drive of 1950, the first Madison United Givers' Fund campaign, gather at a desk. Shown...
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Madison United Givers' Fund First Drive

Date: 10 16 1950
Description: Two solicitors for the Madison United Givers' Fund drive of 1950, Mrs. Ellis (Helen) Wertz (left) and Mrs. Howard (Evelyn) Nedderman (second to left), list...
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Madison United Givers' Fund First Drive

Date: 10 16 1950
Description: Dr. Chester Kurtz, seated, and Dr. Robin Allin, standing, demonstrate the operation of a fluoroscope to Mrs. David (Virginia) Piper, seated, and Mrs. Josep...
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Madison United Givers's Fund First Drive

Date: 10 16 1950
Description: L.E. Rolefson, director of the Lutheran Welfare Society, seated, shows the Reverend E.J. Van Handel, director of the Catholic Welfare Bureau, and two Unite...
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Madison United Givers' Fund First Drive

Date: 10 16 1950
Description: Mrs. Sophia Siebecker, far right, explains the duties of the Travelers' Aid Association of which she is the director in Madison, to four United Givers' Fun...
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Madison United Givers' Fund First Drive

Date: 10 23 1950
Description: Shown at the United Givers' Fund campaign luncheon speakers' table are, from left to right, starting at sixth from the right: Former Chief Justice Marvin B...
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Madison United Givers' Fund First Drive

Date: 10 23 1950
Description: Oscar Gustave Mayer, left, campaign chairman of the first Madison United Givers' Fund campaign, presents a Red Feather award to Claude Bell, United Givers'...
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Pi Beta Alumnae Committee

Date: 11 07 1950
Description: Three Pi Beta Phi alumnae are shown making arrangements for an invitational benefit and tea which will be held at the chapter house at 233 Langdon Street. ...
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Visiting Nurse Service Board of Directors

Date: 11 08 1950
Description: Group portrait of the Visiting Nurse Service Board of Directors. The function of the visiting nurses is to provide bedside care when needed in Madison. Sta...
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Optimist Week

Date: 11 09 1950
Description: Acting City Manager George Forster signs a proclamation to observe Optimist Week in Madison. Standing left to right are: C. B. Beebe, director of the Optim...
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Clothing Collected for Korea

Date: 11 04 1950
Description: Dick Brilliott, left, and John Hudson, co-chairmen of the Madison Youth Clothes-for-Korea drive, eye the piles of clothing lining the halls of the Madison ...
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Cub Scouts Donating Toys to Empty Stocking Fund

Date: 12 02 1950
Description: Cub Scouts from Pack 304 place toys for less fortunate boys and girls under a Christmas tree at St. Mark's Lutheran Church. The toys will go to the Wiscons...
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Knights of Columbus Donation for Underprivileged Children

Date: 12 02 1950
Description: Herman G. Kleinheinz (left) of Madison Council Number 531 of the Knights of Columbus presents a check for $1,100 to William L. Doudna of the Wisconsin S...
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Christmas Seal Display

Date: 12 02 1950
Description: A group of girl scouts from Troop 99 of Bashford Methodist Church singing Christmas carols at a Christmas holiday display at a Madison law firm featuring t...

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