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Community War Chest Office

Date: 1945
Description: Three women work in the Community War Chest office. One of the women is typing and one is about to use the telephone. A sign on the wall behind the women r...
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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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Madison Mothers March on Polio

Date: 01 23 1952
Description: Kathrine M. Johnson, 820 Jenifer Street, maps out a small portion of the central section of the city for which she is responsible during the March of Dimes...
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Polio Survivors Value March of Dimes

Date: 12 27 1954
Description: Mrs. Judith Lokken, a grandmother of three, was diagnosed with polio in August 1954 but is now virtually recovered.
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Polio Survivors Value March of Dimes

Date: 12 28 1954
Description: Everett L. Liddicoat, an insurance agent and 4-year veteran of the Army Air Corps, was diagnosed with polio in 1949.
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Empty Stocking Club

Date: 11 26 1956
Description: Portrait of Robert I. Perina, deputy district attorney of Dane county, seated at his desk. He assisted the Empty Stocking Club, an organized group dedicate...
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United Givers' Fund Red Feather Services

Date: 10 15 1957
Description: Miss Lillian Nitcher using the telephone. She is the associate executive secretary of the Community Welfare Council, and executive secretary of the Madison...
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United Givers Campaign

Date: 10 27 1959
Description: The theme "Every Call Counts" at the first United Givers report luncheon will be symbolized by the huge replica of a telephone. Shown with the phone are (l...
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Multiple Sclerosis Canvass

Date: 05 12 1965
Description: Officers of the fund drive for victims of multiple sclerosis are busy making final arrangements for the door-to-door canvas. From left are Ellen Schroeder,...
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Busy Mother

Date: 09 30 1965
Description: Mrs. Rodney Gallagher, Rt. 2, Fish Hatchery Road, with a phone at her ear and a list at her side. She is sitting at a table with her five children, who are...
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Annual Hadassah Donor Dinner

Date: 04 16 1958
Description: Harriet Miller and Ethel Waisman shown working on plans for the annual Hadassah donor dinner to be held at Beth Israel Center. Hadassah serves people in 76...

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