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Four Women Volunteers at Red Cross Workshop

Date: 02 24 1944
Description: Red Cross volunteers from Christ Presbyterian Church working on "scruffies" for hospitalized soldiers at Truax Field. Left to right are Mrs. H.L. Yeager, R...
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Red Cross Sponsored Singing Group

Date: 06 07 1945
Description: Group portrait of Red Cross sponsored group, "Parlor Tricks," who entertain convalescent patients in the Army Air Force's regional hospital at Truax Field....
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Red Cross Sponsored Singing Group

Date: 06 07 1945
Description: Group portrait of three members of "Parlor Tricks" being instructed by Mrs. Frances Maloney, Red Cross recreation director. Pictured left to right: Lorrain...
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Junior Red Cross Workers

Date: 07 29 1945
Description: Eight Junior Red Cross young children (Mary Schaaf, Josephine Federicks, Nancy Fowlkes, Maralyn Savage, Bonnie Anderson, Peggy Huiskamp, Ruth Mary Noland, ...
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International Harvester's Ideal Work Spirit

Date: 1916
Description: A poster or signboard titled: "The Right Spirit" depicting five examples of International Harvester employees engaging in recreational and voluntary activi...
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Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross

Date: 11 01 1948
Description: Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross serving tea to two unidentified patients at the Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Left to right are: Mrs. H. ...
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JCC "Can-Can" Line

Date: 12 20 1948
Description: Twelve members of the JCC auxiliary "Can-Can" line. They performed at the Junior Chamber of Commerce Christmas dinner dance.
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Phi Beta's "A Combine of Comedy"

Date: 02 07 1949
Description: Committee members creating the guest program for "A Combine of Comedy" produced by Phi Beta. Left to right: Mrs. Gordon (Eleanor) Rowley, 904 Oakland Avenu...
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Preparing for YWCA Benefit Party

Date: 02 07 1949
Description: Three women preparing for a YWCA benefit party to send representatives to an YWCA conference. Delores Nelson, left, is painting a poster. Violet Fisher, c...
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YWCA Group

Date: 03 17 1950
Description: Four members of the YWCA Senior Business and Industrial Girls Club are standing and sitting around a table laden with items for a bazaar and bake sale. Lef...
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Madison Youth Council Officers

Date: 09 21 1950
Description: New officers of the Madison Youth Council are sworn in by city Clerk A.W. Bareis in the Old Madison Room of the Memorial Union. Left to right are: John McC...
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Red Cross Officials

Date: 11 30 1950
Description: Red Cross officials gather at the annual meeting of the Dane County Red Cross chapter. Sitting left to right, they are: Herman Loftsgordon, Dane County Cha...
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Red Cross Activities

Date: 03 05 1951
Description: Members of the Junior Red Cross, Ruby Kepler of Central High School and Dorothy Lacey of Edgewood High School, looking at a map. They are being trained as ...
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League of Women Voters Statewide Radio Program

Date: 09 10 1951
Description: Frances Hurst (left) and Marcella Gill (right) listen to voice recordings at the WIBA radio broadcasting studio. Hurst was chairman of the WHA radio progra...
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U.W. Student Service Projects

Date: 12 10 1951
Description: Members of Phi Beta Speech Sorority rehearse a play reading they will be putting on for patients in Madison hospitals. Left to right: Jean Day, Madison; Ev...
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U.W. Student Service Projects

Date: 12 10 1951
Description: Residents of Elizabeth Waters Dormitory make stuffed toys for Empty Stocking Club and tray favors for patients at Madison General Hospital. Left to right: ...
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Red Cross Blood Donors

Date: 03 14 1952
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Harold Wilson, blood donors, and children, Mike, left and Sharon, right, at the Red Cross blood bank.
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Leonard Schmitt Talkathon

Date: 08 12 1952
Description: Volunteer telephone workers take questions phoned in for Leonard F. Schmitt, Merrill attorney, who is challenging U.S. Senator Joseph B. McCarthy for the R...
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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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Madison Art Foundation Membership Committee

Date: 08 10 1953
Description: Members of the Madison Art Foundation membership committee address envelopes for a mailing. They are, from left: Arline Findorff, Eugenia Bolz and Mary Mac...

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