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Red Cross Workers with Supplies

Date: 02 12 1945
Description: Red Cross Motor Corps workers, Mrs. John (Marjorie) Haley and Mrs. E.W. (Thelma) Nystrom, loading a large basket of Navy kits into a truck to await distrib...
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Ruth Nelson and Red Cross Display

Date: 03 07 1945
Description: Ruth Nelson, Red Cross motor corps volunteer, and the Red Cross display in the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda. Display features contents of the prisoner-o...
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Paper Drive

Date: 08 11 1945
Description: Members of the Junior Red Cross, Boy Scouts of Troops 20 and 30, and boys of Madison, sitting on the back of a Truax Field army truck loaded with waste pap...
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Junior Red Cross

Date: 1946
Description: Lapham School students with gift boxes prepared by Junior Red Cross members to be sent to boys and girls overseas. Shown with teacher Gladys Halvorsen are,...
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Red Cross Counselor and Veteran

Date: 03 01 1947
Description: Red Cross Home Service Department counselor R.W. Gerling is shown giving advice to John F. Foster, a veteran.
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Junior Red Cross Council Toy Drive

Date: 11 23 1948
Description: Fritz Hanson, Peggy Huiskamp, and Winifred Grant of Wisconsin High School, are shown checking on the drive for toys which the school's Junior Red Cross Cou...
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Junior Red Cross Campaign Against "The Rat-Public Enemy No. 1"

Date: 08 16 1949
Description: Mary Traino (left), Joyce McConley, and Ruth Steinle gather with two boys while discussing the Junior Red Cross campaign against "The Rat-Public Enemy No. ...
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Red Cross Peacetime Activities

Date: 02 26 1952
Description: The work of the Red Cross in peacetime is less well publicized than its wartime services. Pictured are Mrs. Ken (Betty) Kozasa, 320 West Dayton Street, cha...
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 05 29 1953
Description: Group portrait of men planning a blood drive for Madison industrial plants at the Dane County Red Cross. Sitting are: Phillip C. Stark (left) and Bob Georg...
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Refugees after Tet

Date: 1968
Description: Refugees at a Red Cross aid station in Hue shortly after the Tet offensive left much of the city in ruins. This scene was witnessed by American journalist ...
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Mailing Letters at the Red Cross

Date: 1918
Description: Soldiers mailing letters home at the Red Cross L.O.C. canteen in France.
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Carl G. Mayer

Date: 08 30 1956
Description: Carl G. Mayer, vice-president of advertising at Oscar Mayer and Company, serves the 1956 Red Feather United Givers Campaign.
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Sad Shack Group

Date: 07 31 1943
Description: G. Robert Mowerson (left), Red Cross Director and Robert Doyle (third from left), War Correspondent, posing with Captain O.S. Allen of Columbus, Georgia, a...
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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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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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Red Cross Tag Day Group

Date: 07 1918
Description: Outdoor group portrait of Red Cross nurses standing in front of the Hartford Fire Department building for Tag Day, which was a fundraising event.
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Red Cross Troops

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Description: Red Cross troops leaving Berlin passing by the Wilhelmstrasse and the Siegesallee.
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Red Cross

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Description: Red Cross leaving Berlin.
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Red Cross

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Description: Red Cross leaving Berlin.
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Red Cross Soup Kitchen

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Description: Red Cross soup kitchen with a crowd at the entrance. For 10 pfennigs one can obtain a hearty lunch.

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