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War Chest Workers

Date: 10 11 1944
Description: Three female war chest workers seated at a table sort war chest printed material. The wall in the background is covered with Madison War Chest posters. M...
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Community War Chest Office

Date: 1945
Description: Three women work in the Community War Chest office. One of the women is typing and one is about to use the telephone. A sign on the wall behind the women r...
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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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Clothing Drive

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Description: Junior Chamber of Commerce Auxiliary members (Mrs. Darleen Maddrell, Mrs. Meta Thompson, and Mrs. Ruby Zein) help at a clothes drive at Washington School, ...
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United Givers' Fund Volunteer

Date: 10 23 1956
Description: Betty J. DiSalvo reading good night stories to her children, Michael DiSalvo (age 6) and Mark DiSalvo (age 4) after having solicited money for 27 Red Feath...
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Volunteers of America Dinner

Date: 11 26 1952
Description: Bessie Koen serves the first course of the traditional turkey-and-trimmings dinner to James Eckert. Dinner was served by the Volunteers of America to 56 me...
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Volunteers of America Dinner

Date: 11 26 1952
Description: William Thorp and Hattie Reed bow their heads in prayer before Thanksgiving dinner is served by the Volunteers of America to 56 members of its Sunset Club.
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Volunteers of America Dinner

Date: 11 26 1952
Description: Members of the Volunteers of America Sunset Club eating a Thanksgiving dinner.
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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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Volunteers of America Dinner

Date: 11 26 1952
Description: Mary Hawkins, assisted by Thorwald Anderson, Checker Cab driver, arrives for a Thanksgiving dinner served by the Volunteers of America to 56 members of its...
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Women with Christmas Gifts

Date: 12 16 1956
Description: Betty Westby and Mildred Loshek, members of the East Side Women's Club, bring gifts for the Morningside Sanatorium in Madison and the Skaalen Home in Stoug...
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Neighborhood House

Date: 1940
Description: Exterior view of the Neighborhood House at 766 West Washington Avenue.
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Three Hearing Impaired Children Leave for Camp

Date: 07 30 1955
Description: Three hearing impaired children leaving in a car for "The Retreat," a summer camp near Wautoma, Wisconsin. The trip is sponsored by the Parents Council for...
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Empty Stocking Club Workers Arranging Toys

Date: 12 18 1952
Description: Empty Stocking Club workers, Sgt. Earl Nevin and Mrs. Alice Shores (holding a musical duck). Other workers behind them are Bill Doudna, Mrs. Lucille Knoche...
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WISC Staff Members

Date: 12 09 1952
Description: Ralph O. Connor, manager of WISC; Carol Cowan, known professionally as "Barbara Lane," and Henry Buslee, a staff member at WISC, sitting at a table behind ...
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Allis Promanaders Square Dancing

Date: 12 09 1952
Description: The "Allis Promanaders," a square dancing group that meets in the gym of Frank Allis school, hold a public square dancing party for the benefit of the Empt...
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Governor Walter Kohler and Polio Victims

Date: 01 07 1953
Description: Governor Walter Kohler sits with 2 1/2 year old Deborah Foster and her mother Ruth Foster, both polio victims. Governor Kohler is proclaiming January as "M...
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Sture and Geneva Johnson Residence

Date: 06 28 1955
Description: Geneva Johnson sits in the sunroom of her contemporary home at 313 New Castle Way in Maple Bluff. Her home will be featured on a July 14 Tour of Homes spon...
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O. Clarke & Leslie Gillett Residence

Date: 06 28 1955
Description: Leslie Gillett is sitting in her traditional antique-filled living room at 3443 Edgehill Parkway in Shorewood Hills. The home will be featured in the Attic...
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Christmas Seals Tea

Date: 11 08 1955
Description: Ida Kittleson, Mary McCormick, Katherine Maurer, and Janet Pasch around a table at a tea given for the Madison Tuberculosis Association volunteer workers.

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