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Theaters Collect Money for Polio Fund

Date: 01 31 1958
Description: March of Dimes treasurer, Frank Sackman, holding a check for money collected in four local theaters for the infantile paralysis fund campaign by teenage vo...
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Dane County Association for Mental Health Fund Drive

Date: 04 04 1958
Description: Association president, Howard Hershleder, and campaign chairman, H. Kelley Meyer, look over a chart in preparation for the annual fund drive of the Dane Co...
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U.S. Savings Bond Campaign

Date: 04 19 1958
Description: Arnold G. Gehner, center, vice president of the Bank of Madison, is general chairman for the "Share-in-America" Madison area U.S. savings bond purchasing c...
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Madison Altrusa Club Annual Country Fair

Date: 04 25 1958
Description: Constance Elvehjem will sell some of her famous baked beans made from her grandmother's recipe at the Madison Altrusa club's annual country fair at the Spr...
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Madison Altrusa Club Annual Country Fair

Date: 04 25 1958
Description: Dr. Elizabeth McCoy of the University of Wisconsin bacteriology department examines the root system of French pussywillows she raised to sell at the Madiso...
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Madison Altrusa Club Annual Country Fair

Date: 04 25 1958
Description: One of the philanthropic projects of the Madison Altrusa Club's annual country fair proceeds is scholarships for young women to take the practical nurse's ...
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Madison Altrusa Club Annual Country Fair

Date: 04 25 1958
Description: The Madison Altrusa club gives a summer scholarship each year to a talented Madison student in honor of the late Lucy Irene Buck, a former club president a...
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CUNA Contributes Lt. Gerald C. Stull Fund

Date: 05 09 1958
Description: Women attending the convention of the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) collected a total of $38.37 and donated it to the Wisconsin State Journal...
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Welfare Fund Donations for Air Force Pilot's Son

Date: 05 16 1958
Description: Portrait of Madison wrestling promoter Jimmy Demetral donating to a fund established for the welfare and education of the 3-month-old son of an Air Force p...
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Savings Bonds Sales Campaign

Date: 05 14 1958
Description: "Airman 2/C Don R. Roberts, Truax Field, is shown purchasing his portion of 'Share in America' — 15 U.S. $50 savings bonds. Roberts, a native of Wichita Fa...
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Jaycettes Donation to University Hospital

Date: 05 21 1958
Description: Lloyd Hughes, superintendent of University of Wisconsin hospitals, receives a check from the Junior Chamber of Commerce auxiliary (Jaycettes) for the hospi...
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Board of Directors of the Madison Improvement Corporation

Date: 06 04 1958
Description: Members of the board of directors of the Madison Improvement Corporation that unwrapped plans to increase the industrial potential of the Madison metropoli...
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United Givers' Fund Drive

Date: 06 18 1958
Description: Discussing plans for the Women's division of the United Givers' Fund are, left to right: Constance Helmquist, Elizabeth Schlotthauer, and Helen Quisling.
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Mifflin Moppets with Roundy

Date: 08 29 1958
Description: Group portrait of ten girls, who called themselves the "Mifflin Moppets" posing with Wisconsin State Journal sportswriter Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin i...
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Halloween Fund Drive to Help UNICEF

Date: 10 21 1958
Description: Madison children call on their neighbors and friends to contribute funds for the United Nations Fund for Children (UNICEF). Shown collecting in a neighbor...
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Preparing Christmas Seals

Date: 11 07 1958
Description: One in a series of photographs depicting volunteers preparing a mailing of Christmas Seals as part of a campaign to raise funds to fight tuberculosis. Help...
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Preparing Christmas Seals

Date: 11 07 1958
Description: One in a series of photographs depicting volunteers preparing a mailing of Christmas Seals as part of a campaign to raise funds to fight tuberculosis. Stan...
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Preparing Christmas Seals

Date: 11 07 1958
Description: One in a series of photographs depicting volunteers preparing a mailing of Christmas Seals as part of a campaign to fight tuberculosis. Volunteers, shown w...
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Preparing Christmas Seals

Date: 11 07 1958
Description: One in a series of photographs depicting volunteers preparing a mailing of Christmas Seals as part of a campaign to fight tuberculosis. Virginia Bowen, lef...
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Lions Club Donates Television Set to Mendota State Hospital

Date: 12 19 1958
Description: Madison Lions Club members Bernard C. Reese (left) and Deane Johnson (right) present a Motorola television set to Edward Karpowiez, recreational therapy di...

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