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Volunteers at Red Cross Regional Blood Center

Date: 06 14 1951
Description: Volunteer nurses Mrs. J.W. Brown and Mrs. R.H. Olsen work at the year-old Red Cross Regional Blood Center in Madison.
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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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Medical Auxiliary Aids Nurses' Project

Date: 08 11 1952
Description: "Assisting in the compiling of reference notebooks for prospective nurses are the four wives of doctors pictured above. From left to right, they are Mrs. O...
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Dane County Health Council Association

Date: 09 22 1952
Description: Student Gloria Niebuhr has her eyes tested by Dane County Health Council Association volunteer Mrs. Robert Drunasky. Looking on is student Eugene Bosben.
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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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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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March of Dimes

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Portrait of five-year-old Lynn Stenrud with her mother Mrs. Ingvald Stenrud (middle), and Mrs. Robert Huehel (right), all from Deerfield. Lynn is wearing a...
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March of Dimes

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Group portrait of Joyce and Norbert Plewke with their daughter, Pamela, who recently recovered from polio. Mrs. Plewke will participate in the upcoming Mot...
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March of Dimes

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Cummings of Waunakee and their five children. The four older children put money in a contribution container for the Mothers' March...
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Dane County Health Council Association

Date: 09 22 1952
Description: First grade student Frank Eschler has his hearing tested by Sun Prairie Health Council chairman Mrs. Marshall Thorpe. Looking on is student Kathleen Wacket...
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Four Grey Ladies

Date: 08 23 1956
Description: Four women wearing Red Cross Gray Lady uniforms, including nurse caps with Red Cross insignia, sit at a table and plan a united meeting of the four units o...
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Mothers' March on Polio

Date: 01 07 1958
Description: Eugene Rankin, director of the Dane March of Dimes, shows the movie "Survival Is Not Enough" during a ward captains meeting to plan the Mothers' March on P...
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Mothers' March on Polio

Date: 01 07 1958
Description: Ward captains meet to plan the Mothers' March on Polio in connection with the Dane County March of Dimes. The Mothers' March will take place the night of J...
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Mothers' March on Polio

Date: 01 07 1958
Description: Ward captains meet to plan the Mothers' March on Polio in connection with the Dane County March of Dimes. The Mothers' March will take place the night of J...
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Mothers' March on Polio

Date: 01 07 1958
Description: Ward captains meet to plan the Mothers' March on Polio in connection with the Dane County March of Dimes. The Mothers' March will take place the night of J...
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Dane County Medical Auxilliary Charter Members

Date: 04 15 1958
Description: These five charter members of the Dane County Medical auxiliary were special guests of honor at the organization's luncheon meeting. The women are Hilda Ew...
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Madison Tuberculosis Association Fundraising

Date: 12 15 1958
Description: Esther Haack (seated left) sells a page of Christmas seals to Leone Wagner at the post office. The Madison Tuberculosis Association sells about $150 worth ...
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Monona Grove Red Cross Bloodmobile Co-Chairman with Two Babies

Date: 02 19 1960
Description: Beth Gehrke, R.N., Monona village's co-chairman for the Monona Grove Red Cross Bloodmobile, is shown holding and gazing upon two three month old babies. Th...
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Dane County Association of Health Councils

Date: 10 14 1954
Description: Four elected officers of the Dane County Association of Health Councils posing for a group portrait before planning a spring county-wide health survey. Sta...
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Methodist Hospital Service League

Date: 02 04 1954
Description: Members of the Methodist Hospital Service League during their monthly day of service preparing swabs to be used in the hospital. Left to right: Hazel Teasd...

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