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Dane County Red Cross Chapter 50th Anniversary

Date: 05 12 1959
Description: Among the attendees at the 50th anniversary meeting of the Dane County chapter of the American Red Cross are, left to right: Katherine Edwards and her sist...
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Red Cross Aided Child

Date: 06 10 1959
Description: Donald and Audrey Forrer posing outdoors with their 7-year-old daughter Lydia, pictured riding a bicycle. The Red Cross provided the blood transfusions tha...
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Ward in the Red Cross Hospital

Date: 1918
Description: Indoor group portrait of wounded soldiers in the hospital ward, some of which have been wounded. Others soldiers are in uniform and are presumably uninjure...
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Truax Field Blood Drive

Date: 07 30 1959
Description: Lt. Donald B. Davidson, left, is congratulated for leading a record breaking bloodmobile event at the Truax Field Airbase. At center is Lt. Col. W.C. Croom...
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Children Dressed up for War

Date: 1918
Description: Full-length portrait of two children, about 6-7 years old, posed in a studio in front of a painted background. On the left the young boy is costumed as a s...
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Red Cross Talking Letter Project

Date: 11 18 1959
Description: Mrs. Barbara Featherstone and Mrs. Edith Norman unveil a Christmas centerpiece for the annual Red Cross Christmas Talking Letter project. The centerpiece w...
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Red Cross Volunteer Thank You Tea

Date: 12 1959
Description: Group portrait of four canteen hostesses at the first Red Cross "thank you" tea held at the home of the University of Wisconsin president. Left to right ar...
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Red Cross Volunteer Thank You Tea

Date: 12 1959
Description: Four women chatting at the first Red Cross volunteer "thank you" tea at the home of the University of Wisconsin president. Left to right are: Mrs. Gladys E...
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Red Cross Volunteer Thank You Tea

Date: 12 1959
Description: The Red Cross Volunteer "thank you" tea is held at the home of the University of Wisconsin president. Left to right are Mrs. Dorothy Schar, volunteer commi...
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Red Cross Volunteer Thank You Tea

Date: 12 1959
Description: Mrs. Elizabeth A. Risser (left) chatting with her husband's mother, Mrs. Elizabeth W. Risser. Elizabeth is one of the Margaret Rupp Cooper harpists who pro...
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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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Women of the Red Cross

Date: 1918
Description: Women of the Dunn County Chapter of the American Red Cross posed with sewing machines in the Stout Institute Building.
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Children as Red Cross Nurses

Date: 07 1918
Description: Young girls costumed as Red Cross nurses for a parade, with a small wagon drawn by a pet dog decorated as a field “ambulance.”
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Nakoma School Bloodmobile Project

Date: 10 20 1960
Description: Nakoma School plans to host a Bloodmobile drive. Shown standing, from left to right, are: Mrs. Gerald Kring, Midvale Baptist Church blood drive chairman; R...
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Blood Recipient and Educator, Sophie Merritt

Date: 01 23 1961
Description: Sophie Merritt, right, history educator at the Armed Forces Institute and a half gallon blood recipient, shows Cherokee Heights Red Cross Bloodmobile Chair...
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Red Cross 10 Year Service Award

Date: 04 17 1961
Description: Truax Field's Red Cross recognition tea featured a ten-year service pin given to Margaret Hoffman. Shown left to right: Col. Olin E. Gilbert, Truax Field ...
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Ethel Parker Wins Award

Date: 04 30 1961
Description: Ethel Parker, center, holds the Writer's Cup which she was awarded for outstanding work in communications at the annual Ladies of the Press breakfast. Ethe...
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Sauk County Conscripts

Date: 05 27 1918
Description: A group of more than 70 draftees poses on the steps of the Sauk County Courthouse on the day they left Baraboo for Camp Grant near Rockford, Illinois. Most...
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Elliott Zimmerman Heads Madison Elementary Junior Red Cross Council

Date: 06 1953
Description: New officers of the Madison elementary Junior Red Cross Council are elected by representatives of 23 Madison elementary school Junior Red Cross councils. S...
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137 - Wartime Efforts at Joy Camps

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying two photographs and two captions with extensive details of the camp's war efforts. Several campers in each photo...

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