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| Date: | 03 01 1945 |
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| Description: | O.I. Dhein, instructor, with East High School shop students Bob Somerville, Carl Carlson and Francis Lockman working on the aluminum heads for canes they w... |
| Date: | 03 07 1945 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Fifteen nurses from Wisconsin General Hospital, who are entering military service, standing in front of a plaque reading: "1920-1924 A memorial to those wh... |
| Date: | 04 18 1945 |
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| Description: | Marion Oestreich and daughter, Margaret, age 3, looking at a blackboard diagram of their Community Union garden. The gardens are planned to provide garden ... |
| Date: | 04 18 1945 |
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| Description: | Wilbur and Marjorie Dudley and daughters, Amy Jean on the left, and Deborah on right, in their Community Union garden on Arlington Place. The gardens are p... |
| Date: | 04 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Handing over bundles of clothing collected for the United National Clothing Drive are three Chinese children, Judy, Betty and Billy Lee, children of Mr. an... |
| Date: | 04 18 1945 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Karl L. Siebecker and her children, Judy (left) and Susan (right), in their Community Union garden on Arlington Place. The gardens are planned to prov... |
| Date: | 05 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Robert M. Carnes, on the right, expediter at RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac), 1400 East Washington Avenue, with foreman Jack Young. |
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| Description: | Man wearing an Uncle Sam costume plowing with a team of horses for an agricultural extension demonstration. It is likely the event took place during World... |
| Date: | 06 07 1945 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of three members of "Parlor Tricks" being instructed by Mrs. Frances Maloney, Red Cross recreation director. Pictured left to right: Lorrain... |
| Date: | 06 07 1945 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of board members of the Red Cross sponsored group "Parlor Tricks". Left to right: Jeanette Youngblood, Dorothy Reis, Betty Johnson, Grace Sh... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising a World War II scrap drive effort sponsored by Wisconsin Governor Julius Heil. The effort was known as "MacArthur Week" and took place b... |
| Date: | 07 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Glen Lindsey displays the fly traps he invented to trap thousands of flies in the Truax Field area. |
| Date: | 07 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Seven women committee members plan a benefit program sponsored by the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee in the home of Mrs. Grant (Esther) Haas, 1518 Su... |
| Date: | 07 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Madison fire fighters load Red Cross boxes to send overseas. Each box contained 36 knit bags made and filled by volunteers, each bag contained a pencil, st... |
| Date: | 07 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Eight Junior Red Cross young children (Mary Schaaf, Josephine Federicks, Nancy Fowlkes, Maralyn Savage, Bonnie Anderson, Peggy Huiskamp, Ruth Mary Noland, ... |
| Date: | 05 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Professor Howard Becker, Sociology Department at the University of Wisconsin. While on leave from his teaching job, he went to Washington, D.C. to work wit... |
| Date: | 08 15 1946 |
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| Description: | Women from the Unitarian Church with dolls for the war-blighted children of Europe and Asia. In the foreground is Mrs. F.H. (Ruby) King, one of Madison's o... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Male angora rabbit, with the words, "Der Rammler". |
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