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Youth Community Chest Drive

Date: 09 17 1948
Description: Members of the youth speakers' committee of the Madison Youth Council making plans for their part in the Community Chest drive. Left to right: David Matson...
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University of Wisconsin Style Show

Date: 11 11 1948
Description: The University of Wisconsin Women's Self-Government Association sponsors a style show as a benefit for the Campus Community Chest. Three of the models are,...
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Roundy Coughlin at Jaycettes Card Party

Date: 11 09 1948
Description: Roundy Coughlin holding playing cards with many chips in front of him at a table with five members of the Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce Auxiliary (Jay...
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University of Wisconsin Foundation Centennial Campaign Dinner

Date: 11 15 1948
Description: People at the speakers' table at the dinner marking the start of the University of Wisconsin's foundation's centennial campaign. From left are Herbert V. K...
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University of Wisconsin Foundation Centennial Campaign Dinner

Date: 11 15 1948
Description: Guests of honor at the banquet that opened Dane county's campaign for the University of Wisconsin centennial campaign. From the left are: Prof. Kiekhofer; ...
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1948 Christmas Seal Design

Date: 11 15 1948
Description: The design for the 1948 Christmas seal.
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Child Posing for Christmas Seal

Date: 11 15 1948
Description: "Chuckie," a 3-year-old who has spent most of the past year as a patient at the Morningside Tuberculosis Sanatorium near Madison. He closely resembles the ...
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Governor Oscar Rennebohm Honored by Viennese

Date: 11 26 1948
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm was honored by the citizens of Vienna, Austria, for Wisconsin citizens' contributions to the "American Silent Guest committee" of ...
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People Counting Pennies

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: People counting pennies that came in the mail for the Dr. Kate Million Penny fundraiser. Country doctor Kate Pelham Newcomb -- known as "the angel on snow...
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Roundy Coughlin and Bernard Gill

Date: 01 14 1949
Description: Roundy Coughlin, right, turning over to Bernard Gill, secretary of Roundy's Fun Fund, a check for $4,000.25. This money is used for the handicapped childre...
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Preparing for YWCA Benefit Party

Date: 02 07 1949
Description: Three women preparing for a YWCA benefit party to send representatives to an YWCA conference. Delores Nelson, left, is painting a poster. Violet Fisher, c...
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Student Chuan-Yen Liu

Date: 03 05 1949
Description: Chuan-Yen Liu, a University of Wisconsin graduate student in economics, working at the Truax Field cafeteria. The students at the University of Wisconsin h...
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Girl Scouts Cookie Project

Date: 03 12 1949
Description: Judith Engel and Joanne Fraililng, Girl Scouts from Troop 46 at East Jr. High School, receiving cookies from Reidar Strand. The Strand Bakery, 2007 Atwood ...
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Girl Scouts Cookie Project

Date: 03 12 1949
Description: Nancy Hockett and Patricia Rinden, two Girl Scouts from Troop 46 at East Jr. High School, nibble cookies in anticipation of their project to sell cookies ...
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Bethel Lutheran Church School Building Campaign

Date: 03 18 1949
Description: Group portrait of seven men involved in the Bethel Lutheran Church campaign to raise $100,000 in 100 weeks for a new Sunday school building. Seated left to...
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National Federation of Women's Republican Clubs

Date: 06 28 1949
Description: Advisory board members of the National Federation of Women's Republican Clubs being entertained by the antics of a circus elephant in the Capitol park duri...
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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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Basket Supper At Our Lady Queen of Peace

Date: 11 04 1949
Description: Six women in ethnic dress are shown standing behind decorated lunch baskets. They are at the first social event held in Our Lady Queen of Peace's new scho...
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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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