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Packinghouse Workers Picket Line

Date: 03 22 1948
Description: Members of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers of America and their families walking the picket line.

"Picket Duty - Everyone's Job" Even the youngste...

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Delivery of 4-H Accounting Award

Date: 05 20 1936
Description: 4-H County Agent Ray Aune delivers a McCormick-Deering cream separator to Miss Luella Pagel. Ms. Pagel was the winner of the state 4-H Accounting Award. Pi...
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Milwaukee Road Service Club Party

Date: 12 02 1945
Description: Milwaukee Road Service Club family party at E.R.A. Hall, with seven male officers in line being served food by three women, with a small boy looking on.
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Sea Island Family Portrait

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Description: Family on Sea Island that was part of the Citizenship group that took place on the island.
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Eddie Carthan Victory Party

Date: 1982
Description: Victory celebration for Eddie Carthan, the black activist mayor of Tchula, Mississippi. Carthan was convicted on charges of robbery and murder in 1981. Thi...
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Jaycettes' Fashion Show

Date: 04 19 1950
Description: Two of the younger models in the Jaycettes' fashion show pose with a Raggedy Andy doll. Arthur Gallagher Field, age 3 1/2, and his sister, Betty Ann, 5 1/...
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Worse Than Slavery Cartoon

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Description: A cartoon depicting an African American family hovering beneath a Ku Klux Klansman (KKK) and a white supremacist in the Reconstruction South. There is a sk...
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National League of American Pen Women

Date: 07 02 1951
Description: Eddie Tomlinson watches as his grandmother, Mrs. E.B. (Florence) Tomlinson make one of her famous wood engravings. Mrs. Tomalinson, who teaches art at the ...
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Emil Frautschi Family

Date: 10 03 1951
Description: Emil J. Frautschi, prominent Madison business, church, and civic leader, shares his day of honor at the Rotary Club meeting with members of his family. Sea...
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March of Dimes

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Brown and their three children. Russell, right, is still fighting the effects of his paralysis from polio; he pins a Mother...
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Jaycette Style Show

Date: 02 16 1954
Description: Group portrait of Mrs. Marilyn Sachjen with her children, Susan and Stephan. She is the general chairman of the annual style show which the Junior Chamber ...
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Harry And Velma Hamilton

Date: 10 19 1954
Description: One of the many Madison families who take part in the activites of the various Red Feather agencies (which makes up the United Community Chest) are Mr. and...
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Donald and Elizabeth Elert and Family

Date: 10 19 1954
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Donald (Elizabeth) Elert of 538 Maple Avenue are one of the United Community Chest families who work with Red Feather agencies. Their son, Ste...
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Floyd and Josephine Scheel

Date: 10 19 1954
Description: Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd S. (Josephine) Scheel of 1907 Beld Street and their three children are a "Red Feather family" with the United Community Ches...
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Junior Division of the University League Entertains New Faculty Women and Wives

Date: 09 1959
Description: The Junior Division of the University League will entertain new faculty women and the wives of new faculty members and administrative staff at a series of ...
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Jaycettes Plan 12th Annual Benefit Style Show

Date: 08 03 1961
Description: The Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce Auxiliary (Jaycettes) plan for their 12th annual benefit style show held in the University of Wisconsin Union Theate...
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Give 'till It Helps...Yes, Someone Cares

Date: 10 1961
Description: Catholic Welfare Bureau is one of 29 United Givers agencies. This agency handles foster care and adoptions and provides counseling to unwed mothers and fam...
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United Commercial Travelers Banquet

Date: 02 06 1954
Description: Members of the Capital City Chapter of the United Commercial Travelers Association attending a banquet at the Park Hotel. Left to right are: the guest of h...
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Circus Fans Dinner for Circus Performers

Date: 08 02 1955
Description: Dr. C.M. Kurtz and his son, John, (right) greet trapeze artist Antoinette BisBini (left) and circusman Bob Dover at a dinner for circus performers sponsore...
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Shirley and Mary Wright

Date: 04 27 1959
Description: Mary Wright, left, holds the telephone for her mother Shirley, who is chair of the upcoming annual spring luncheon of the Daughters of Demeter organization...

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