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Election Booths and Volunteers

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Description: Elevated view of a gymnasium that has been converted into a place where citizens can vote on election day.
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Volunteers of America Office & Service Shop

Date: 07 14 1933
Description: Volunteers of America Service Office and Service Shop, 414 S. Baldwin Street. Also shows the old Marquette School in the background.
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Chief McCormick Buying Forget-Me-Not

Date: 09 29 1932
Description: Chief of Police William McCormick buying the first Forget-me-not from the Disabled American Veterans on the Wisconsin State Capitol steps. Left to right: L...
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Volunteers of America Dinner

Date: 11 26 1952
Description: Lt. Col. Frieda Nolte, officer in charge of the Madison post, welcomes Jenny Frothingham to a Thanksgiving dinner served by the Volunteers of America to 56...
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Hubert Humphrey Campaigning

Date: 1960
Description: Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota campaigning for the presidential nomination in southwestern Wisconsin. Humphrey stands at the historical marker in Co...
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Madison Altrusa Club

Date: 02 14 1949
Description: Altrusa Club members preparing for a benefit program for the club's scholarship and hospital fund, at which Kathryn Turney Garten will give a book review. ...
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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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Alert America Convoy Exhibit Volunteers

Date: 05 13 1952
Description: Three volunteer supervisors who will be on hand to help explain the Alert America Convoy exhibit to visitors when it is at the University of Wisconsin-Madi...
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Salvation Army Bell Ringer

Date: 2009
Description: A female Salvation Army bell ringer posing outside Shopko. Apron reads: "need knows no season - I am a bell ringer."
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Madison Soap Box Derby

Date: 07 08 1953
Description: Portrait of four employees of Hult's Garage who will be in charge of transporting soap box derby racers and returning vehicles after the race. Left to righ...
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Altrusa Club Spring Garden Festival

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Lillian Simonson, Altrusa Club member and Marquette School principal, is shown giving a preview of a wishing well to youths Jerry Bailey and Janet Dahl.
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Get Out the Vote for William Proxmire

Date: 11 05 1956
Description: Telephone callers started a new phase of the "get out the vote" campaign Monday at Proxmire for Governor headquarters, 135 W. Wells Street. More than 40 te...
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Frame 79: Freedom!

Date: 08 1964
Description: A young man at a nighttime rally (perhaps at a demonstration during the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City) in support of the MFDP. Behind him...
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United Givers' Fund Planning Meeting

Date: 09 16 1957
Description: G. Frederick Wolff (left) and Warren Walder, chairmen of the general contractors, sheet metal and lathers sections for the United Givers' Fund, look at a l...
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United Givers' Fund Planning Meeting

Date: 08 16 1957
Description: Three members of the United Givers' Fund campaign committee discuss plans. They include Theodore, M. Meloy, associate chairman of the campaign; Kenneth Sul...
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United Givers' Fund Planning Meeting

Date: 09 16 1957
Description: Committee members F.G. Bruckman, Lloyd Severn, Philip J. Dickert and an unidentified man attend a meeting of the construction division for the United Giver...
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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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Man Standing Next to Sign

Date: 1965
Description: A man stands next to a sign with one hand resting on his hip. The sign next to him says, "I am regist[..] are you[...]." The image was taken inside the Whi...
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United Givers' Meeting

Date: 10 28 1958
Description: Ted Meloy (second from right), drive chairman, stands at a podium while informing the group that they have obtained over half their goal. Listening, left t...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 444-451

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Description: When we built our house
we couldn't afford it, but we built everything the best
It's our fortune, and I am so very thankful

A rock
An ark ...

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