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Purple Heart Week Opening Ceremony

Date: 08 03 1949
Description: Governor Rennebohm purchases the first viola from Walter Nettum, Stoughton, a member of the Iron Brigade Chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart....
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West Side Business Men's Association

Date: 09 07 1949
Description: Group portrait of members of the West Side Business Men's association preparing to raise a "big top" tent for the association's annual fund-raising auction...
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Dove Flight Opens Christmas Seal Sale

Date: 11 20 1949
Description: Delores Wilkinson, member of the Madison Come-Back Club, and Sylvan Lipski, Milwaukee All-City Flying Club member are shown just before they released five ...
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Christmas Seals

Date: 11 26 1949
Description: Gov. Oscar Rennebohm presenting a check for his contribution to the 1949 Madison Christmas Seal sale to Esther Hermsen of the Madison Tuberculosis Associat...
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Newman Club Banquet

Date: 11 27 1949
Description: Seated at the head table of the fund raising banquet for the "Northlight," a new publication of Catholic University of Wisconsin students are, left to righ...
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Wishing Well in Capitol Theatre

Date: 11 29 1949
Description: Robert Hoffman dropping coins into the wishing well at the Capitol Theatre for the Empty Stocking Club and the Kiddie Camp fund to "Help Bring Happiness to...
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Empty Stocking Fund Contribution to Lions Club

Date: 12 06 1949
Description: Jean Behling and Bill Doudna of the Wisconsin State Journal staff present a check for $100 to Herman Wagner who is co-chairman of the industrial div...
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Liberty Fleet

Date: 1942
Description: Four men, including Fowler McCormick (third from left), stand in front of the "Liberty Fleet" of International trucks decorated with United States flags. F...
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International Trucks in Brinks Liberty Fleet

Date: 1942
Description: Men stand on the curb beside International trucks used in the Brinks Express Company's "Liberty Fleet." The Field Museum building is in the background acro...
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U.S. Coast Guard Band

Date: 1943
Description: The United States Coast Guard band plays a concert for a War Bond Drive with Rudy Vallee as its conductor. The original caption reads: "U.S.C.G. (Int'l K-6...
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Fund Raising Poster

Date: 1942
Description: Photographic copy of a poster made by International Harvester's advertising department to solicit funds for the International Harvester Company's World War...
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Dogpatchers In Costume

Date: 08 15 1942
Description: Three people in costume behind a table. There is a man wearing a false beard a hat, holding a jug with three x's on it, a woman wearing a polka-dot blouse ...
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March of Dimes Wheelchair Race

Date: 01 28 1950
Description: Four-year-old Paul Rosen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. (Agnes) Rosen, 118 Jackson Street, is all smiles at the Junior Chamber of Commerce March of Dimes Whe...
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James Dunn Contributing to Heart Fund

Date: 02 10 1950
Description: James Dunn, stage and movie star who was appearing in the leading role of "Harvey" at the Parkway Theater, is shown contributing to Madison's heart fund dr...
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Optimists Heart Drive

Date: 02 13 1950
Description: The Madison Optimists presented a check for $100 to the Madison Heart Committee for American Heart Week in commemoration of Optimist members who have died ...
Poster

The Red Cross War Fund Poster

Date: 1914
Description: "If You Can't Go Across With A Gun Come Across With Your Part Of The Red Cross War Fund." Poster depicting a man, wounded and bleeding with his arm in a sl...
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Girl Scout Selling Cookies

Date: 03 16 1950
Description: Troop 118 Girl Scout Pauline Heland of 228 Langdon Street gets an order for Girl Scout cookies from Francis F. Bowman, Jr., president of the Madison Commun...
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UNICO Supports Boys Town of Italy

Date: 04 07 1950
Description: Joseph Bruno presents a check to A.R. Sanna, an honorary member of the Madison chapter of UNICO National, for the Boys Towns of Italy, Inc. in New York Cit...
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Westminster Church "Singing School"

Date: 04 17 1950
Description: A group of Westminster Presbyterian Church members in old fashioned dress recreate an old-time singing school as a fund raiser to bring five displaced pers...
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Drum and Bugle Corp Gift

Date: 05 03 1950
Description: G.H. Showers, Moose Governor, offering a check to help members of the Boy Scouts Drum and Bugle Corp attend the National Scout Jamboree in Pennslyvania. Sh...

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