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Madison Youth Council's Spring Clean-up Campaign

Date: 04 21 1948
Description: Jack Gay, left, and George Koehler, two of the leaders of the Madison Youth Council's spring clean-up campaign, are shown going over the final details for ...
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La Verne Haak, Chairman of Madison Youth Council Clean-up Campaign

Date: 04 28 1948
Description: La Verne Haak, chairman of the Madison Youth Council's second annual spring clean-up campaign, is shown with equipment to be used for the project. His tool...
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Marjorie Wise

Date: 06 16 1948
Description: Marjorie Wise, Mrs. John E. Wise, economist, researcher, organizer and housewife. President of the Wisconsin Federation of Women's Republican clubs.
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Benefit Dance Committee

Date: 06 25 1948
Description: Co-chairmen of "The Assembly" dance committee are Harriet Sisk, on the left, and Marjorie Bolz on the right, posing outdoors on steps.
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Joseph Bruno and Santos Caravello

Date: 11 01 1948
Description: Joseph Bruno and Santos Caravello. The two men testified regarding the importance of the Optimist Club in helping give them at an early age, as children li...
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Red Cross Officials

Date: 11 30 1950
Description: Red Cross officials gather at the annual meeting of the Dane County Red Cross chapter. Sitting left to right, they are: Herman Loftsgordon, Dane County Cha...
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Emma Teckemeyer with Lap Robes

Date: 09 10 1951
Description: Emma (Mrs. W.J.) Teckemeyer poses with some of the 13 quilted lap robes which she has personally made for the patients at the new Veterans' Administration ...
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1951-52 United Givers' Fund Drive

Date: 10 16 1951
Description: Representing the Armed Forces is Pfc. John Mullinax of St. Joseph, Missouri, who is stationed with the air force at Truax Field. More than nine hundred vol...
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1951-52 United Givers' Fund Drive

Date: 10 16 1951
Description: Representing the Visiting Nurses Service is Mrs. Anna Forbis, 6112 Wingra Street. More than nine hundred volunteer workers are involved in a house-to-house...
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PTA Council Officers

Date: 05 08 1952
Description: Charlotte Madding, left, the new president of the Madison Council of Parents and Teachers, and right, Virginia Gieselman, the immediate past president of t...
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Benter Barn — Alternate View

Date: 2004
Description: Lois Benter's parents, Ervin and Alice Giese, and grandparent, Albert Giese, were the previous owners. The last cows to be milked were in August of 2000.
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Gertrude Lamb; Dane Women's Republican Club President

Date: 1953
Description: Portrait of Gertrude Lamb, newly appointed president of Dane County Women's Republican Club.
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Recruiting Polio Emergency Volunteers

Date: 06 18 1953
Description: Jean Welsch uses the telephone to recruit volunteers for the Polio Emergency Volunteer training course. At her side is her son Bobby, age 3 1/2 years, who ...
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Blood Donor

Date: 09 04 1953
Description: Angeline Stacey of Detroit, Michigan poses with 28 pint containers at the Badger Regional Blood Center. They represent a portion of blood she has donated s...
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Junior Division of the University League

Date: 09 27 1953
Description: Richard and Ruth Shackleford posing with a prize white mink outside of the small animal house at 2105 Herrick Drive. Richard, a member of the U.W. genetics...
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Pacific Athletic Club Director

Date: 1945
Description: Leota Kelly, director of the Red Cross's Pacific Athletic Club, posing for a picture by the shore in Tinian at the site of the new Red Cross Club. Kelly is...
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United Givers Fund Campaign

Date: 08 04 1954
Description: Portrait of Flora Steul, right, associate chairman of the Women's Division of the United Givers fund drive, with her daughter Lorna Jean. They admire a swe...
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Nakoma PTA Blood Drive

Date: 12 29 1954
Description: Portrait of Ida. M. Huff, leader of a drive to recruit donors for a Red Cross blood drive at Nakoma School.
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Dane County Medical Society Auxiliary

Date: 03 06 1956
Description: Esther Suckle and Alta Lorenz, reflected in a mirror, are members of the Dane County Medical Society Auxiliary, will model clothes from Simpson's at a styl...
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Dane County Medical Society Auxiliary

Date: 03 06 1956
Description: Judith Davis, president of the Dane County Medical Auxiliary, displays early Wisconsin medical equipment which is being collected for a Wisconsin Museum of...

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