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| Description: | Elevated view of a gymnasium that has been converted into a place where citizens can vote on election day. |
| Date: | 07 14 1933 |
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| Description: | Volunteers of America Service Office and Service Shop, 414 S. Baldwin Street. Also shows the old Marquette School in the background. |
| Date: | 09 29 1932 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 11 26 1952 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota campaigning for the presidential nomination in southwestern Wisconsin. Humphrey stands at the historical marker in Co... |
| Date: | 02 14 1949 |
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| 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. ... |
| Date: | 01 19 1950 |
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| Description: | Standing is William Calvano, Milwaukee, national president of UNICO National, (Italian-American Service Organization - UNICO is the Italian word for unique... |
| Date: | 09 10 1951 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 26 1952 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 13 1952 |
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| Description: | Twelve members of the first class of social welfare aids to the Red Cross home service are shown with their class certificates and pins authorizing them to... |
| Date: | 05 13 1952 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 2009 |
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| Description: | A female Salvation Army bell ringer posing outside Shopko. Apron reads: "need knows no season - I am a bell ringer." |
| Date: | 07 08 1953 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 18 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Brown and their three children. Russell, right, is still fighting the effects of his paralysis from polio; he pins a Mother... |
| Date: | 05 27 1954 |
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| Description: | Elvira Alexson, Marquette School art teacher, is awarded a pin for more than 10 years of service by Gertrude Anderson, Junior Red Cross chairman. |
| Date: | 01 17 1957 |
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| Description: | Med-Wives, an organization composed of the wives of University of Wisconsin medical students, assemble Red Cross kits at the Dane County Red Cross Building... |
| Date: | 05 01 1957 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 11 05 1956 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 1964 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 15 1957 |
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| Description: | William C. Williamson, right, hands over the president's gavel to the new president of the Madison Optimists, John. L. Lonergan. |
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