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Red Cross Gray Ladies

Date: 07 07 1953
Description: Volunteer workers of the American Red Cross are given special recognition. Four of the "faithful" ones are shown. Left to right are: Mrs. Herman (Mildred) ...
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Red Cross Gray Ladies

Date: 07 07 1953
Description: The Gray Ladies (volunteers) of the Red Cross do shopping as part of their hospital duties. Mrs. Tracy W. (Anne) Allen is shown in her car, returning from ...
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Red Cross Gray Ladies

Date: 06 07 1953
Description: Mrs. Albert H. (Kath) Mayer works as one of the Gray Ladies (volunteers) of the Red Cross and pours a mold in the ceramics room in the occupational therapy...
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Red Cross Gray Ladies

Date: 07 07 1953
Description: Five of the Red Cross Gray Ladies (volunteers) who work consistently at the Mendota State Hospital are shown seated around a table. Left to right, they are...
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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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Alfred Hopf as Blood Donor

Date: 09 17 1953
Description: "Alfred Hopf makes his final visit to the blood center to give his last pint of blood before his 60th birthday makes him ineligible to donate again. He is ...
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Red Cross Gray Lady Leaders

Date: 10 23 1953
Description: Charlotte Kohler, chairman of Red Cross service groups, welcomes a new Gray Lady chairman, Locine O'Keefe (third from left). Iona Hein, second from left, i...
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Blood Drive at St. Mary's Hospital

Date: 12 18 1953
Description: Four St. Mary's hospital nuns participate in the hospital staff blood drive. Red Cross nurse Barbara Zimmerman takes the blood pressure of Sister Mary Virg...
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Madison General Hospital Blood Drive

Date: 11 22 1953
Description: Myrna Brindley offers doughnuts to Madison General Hospital employees and staff blood donors Jane Watson and Richard Zellinski. The American Red Cross bloo...
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Red Cross Blood Recipient

Date: 01 29 1954
Description: Portrait of Phillip Drotning, executive secretary to Governor Walter J. Kohler, and surviving recipient of 30 pints of blood from the Red Cross during surg...
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Red Cross Blood Recipient

Date: 02 14 1954
Description: Dorothy Braith stands by her husband Norman's iceboat. She was the recipient of ten pints of blood during surgery. She plans to do what she can to help the...
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Red Cross Blood Recipient

Date: 02 14 1954
Description: Norman and Dorothy Braith stand beside Norman's iceboat "Mary B," the prize-winning iceboat owned by O. T. Havey. Norman is one of the crewmen and Dorothy ...
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Red Cross Gray Ladies

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: Leaders of the Red Cross Gray Ladies confer. They are, from left: Gladys Erickson, who is taking over as Gray Ladies at the Veterans Hospital; Deborah Sher...
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Red Cross Blood Recipient

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: Portrait of Knut Torgrimsen, lathe operator at Ohio Chemical & Surgical Equipment Company and a surviving recipient of 30 pints of blood from the Red Cross...
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Red Cross Blood Recipient

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: Dean Morfey, 12-years-old, is a surviving recipient of 15 pints of blood from the Red Cross during surgery. Morfey's leg was amputated after an accident.
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Red Cross Blood Recipient

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: Rose Karney, crocheting, has an anemic condition which requires frequent blood transfusions.
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Badger Regional Blood Center

Date: 03 19 1954
Description: Group portrait in front of the Badger Regional Blood Center, 302 East Washington Avenue. Dr. Merle O. Hamel acted as director. The people stand around a ne...
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Junior Red Cross Award

Date: 05 27 1954
Description: Elvira Alexson, Marquette School art teacher, is awarded a pin for more than 10 years of service by Gertrude Anderson, Junior Red Cross chairman.
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University of Wisconsin Red Cross Unit

Date: 09 23 1954
Description: Members of the new University of Wisconsin Red Cross unit meet with university officials on the Union Terrace. They include, from left: Susan Chapin, unit ...
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Red Cross Surprise Alert

Date: 10 27 1954
Description: Ida Huff and William Aspinwall, Jr. answer a surprise alert phone call for a test of emergency services response while seated in an automobile.

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