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Harnischfeger Food Drive

Date: 03 1946
Description: Harnischfeger workers aren't on strike but they do their bit every week to help those who are. This picture was taken at the end of a regular Wednesday mo...
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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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Jewish Relief Shipment

Date: 07 08 1948
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...
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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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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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Race of Dimes

Date: 02 05 1949
Description: Two children in wheelchairs, Jean Bokina, left, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bokina and right, Steven Butts, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Freeman Butts, with ...
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Red Feather Drive Thermometer

Date: 10 24 1949
Description: Peter H. Norg, executive director of the Four Lakes Council of Boy Scouts (a Red Feather service of the Madison Community Chest), adds some red paint to th...
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Attic Angels Site Clean-up Party

Date: 07 12 1952
Description: Attic Angel members (plus a few husbands and children) took part in a clean-up party at the former Louis M. Hobbins house at 102 East Gorham Street that th...
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Security State Bank Men's Softball Team

Date: 07 13 1953
Description: Group portrait of the softball team of Security State Bank. They played in a Kiddie Camp benefit at Breese Stevens Field. Shown left to right in the back r...
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Virginia Terrace Children's Donation to the Roundy's Fun Fund

Date: 08 10 1954
Description: Children who live on Virginia Terrace donated $5.27, the proceeds from a theatrical play, to the Roundy's Fun Fund. Pictured kneeling: Kenny Lemmer. Back r...
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Transport of an Iron Lung

Date: 1950
Description: Men moving an iron lung. The machine has the logo for the March of Dimes imprinted on it. Iron Lungs were commonly used for the treatment of polio.
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Children Raise Money for Roundy's Fun Fund

Date: 08 20 1956
Description: Children from Shore Acres Road participated in a circus and sold Kool Aid to raise $7.00 for Roundy's Fun Fund. Front row, left to right are: Michael Seife...
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Roundy's Fun Fund

Date: 08 21 1956
Description: Outdoor group portrait of Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin, sportswriter for Wisconsin State Journal, with five girls who put on a neighborhood style show t...
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Roundy's Fun Fund

Date: 08 24 1959
Description: Martha and Betsy Dapin, left, making the first contribution on Capitol Square for the Roundy's Fun Fund. Standing nearby is Atty. James Geisler, chair of t...
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Seratoma Club Members Selling Brooms

Date: 11 13 1959
Description: Five members of the Madison Seratoma Club, including, left to right, William Rowland, William Murphy, Harold Hueschen, Ray Sweeney, and Wendall Ward, holdi...
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Feeding The Needy

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Description: Feeding the needy in Friedenau-Wilmersdorf at the Kaiserplatz.
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Refreshment Stand Earnings Add to Roundy's Fund

Date: 08 13 1957
Description: Six young girls with Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin. The girls put on a dog show and had a refreshment stand in downtown Madison to make money for "Roundy's Fun ...
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Kool Aid and Popcorn Stand Earn Money for "Roundy" Fund

Date: 08 13 1957
Description: Four children ran a Kool Aid and popcorn stand in front of the Edwin Pagel home at 451 West Wilson Street to earn money for "Roundy's Fun Fund." Sitting fr...
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Children's Play Assists Roundy's Fun Fund

Date: 08 14 1957
Description: Children who put on the play "Hansel and Gretel" in the basement of the Fred Werren home at 34 Midvale Boulevard. They also sold popcorn, candy bars, and g...
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Edgerton's Pat Boone Fan Club

Date: 07 08 1957
Description: The Edgerton Pat Boone fan club's major project is to repair used toys, games, and books for the Martin Luther Children's home in Stoughton. Club president...

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