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A Penny a Pound

Date: 02 22 1957
Description: Girls being weighed to determine their donations of a penny a pound to the YWCA camp.
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YWCA Slim Swim

Date: 06 19 1967
Description: The "slim swim" program at the YWCA.
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Abandoned Toddlers

Date: 01 13 1965
Description: Toddlers looking into the camera with tears in their eyes. They were found abandoned at the Central YWCA.
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Christmas Pagaent Scene

Date: 12 21 1934
Description: First Christian Church school students and choir members dressed as angels and shepherds in a scene from a Christmas pageant "The Promised One" in Esther V...
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Girl Reserves Coloring Easter Eggs

Date: 03 30 1934
Description: Fifteen YWCA Girl Reserves sitting around a table coloring Easter eggs and putting them in small baskets to be distributed to crippled children at the Wisc...
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Decorating YWCA Christmas Tree

Date: 12 1943
Description: Two young women decorate the Christmas tree at the Madison YWCA.
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Girls in YWCA Camp Bunks

Date: 07 06 1944
Description: Young girls posing on the top and bottom bunks at YWCA's Camparia Olbrich on Lake Mendota. In the upper bunk, left to right: Kathryn Eye, Barbara Fellows,...
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Who's New Club Board Members

Date: 09 13 1955
Description: Three board members of the Who's New Club lunching at Blackhawk Country Club, Shorewood Hills. Left to right: Virginia Mansfield, Lois Cardinal, and Shirle...
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YWCA Square Dance

Date: 11 17 1952
Description: Alma Stofen and Joanne Coyne dance to the accompaniment of clapping hands of women watching at a YWCA Health Education Department harvest square dance.
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YWCA Square Dance

Date: 08 16 1952
Description: Audrey Lewis, health education director at the YWCA, Carol Radichel, and Mrs. Merrell Vertein standing around a jukebox at a YWCA square dance.
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Three Women at YWCA Tea

Date: 04 26 1944
Description: Silver tea, benefiting the YWCA at the Governor's residence, 130 E. Gilman Street. Shown standing around a silver tray and bottle, tokens of the christenin...
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Four Women at YWCA Tea

Date: 04 26 1944
Description: Silver tea, benefiting the YWCA at the Governor's residence, 130 E. Gilman Street. Shown seated are Mae Loeffelbein, Anna Johnson, Madeleine Johnson, and H...
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Women at YWCA Tea

Date: 04 26 1944
Description: Group of women surrounding a serving table at the Silver Tea, benefiting the YWCA at the Governor's residence, 130 E. Gilman Street.
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YWCA Dance Preparation

Date: 02 10 1948
Description: Three young women making posters for the upcoming "Hatchet Swing" dance to be held at the YWCA. Pictured from the left are: Ann McEvilly, East Hight; Iris...
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YWCA Activities

Date: 09 28 1948
Description: Members of the YWCA's Teen and Twenty club playing volleyball. Shirley Taubert, 2515 Kendall Avenue, center, is keeping score. Players are, left to right: ...
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YWCA Activities

Date: 09 28 1948
Description: Three members of the YWCA doing floor stretching exercises under direction of, extreme left, Mrs. Robert L. Nelson, 75 Randall Park, YWCA physical educatio...
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YWCA Activities

Date: 09 28 1948
Description: YWCA members playing bridge. Seated left to right: Lorraine Griswod, 348 Washington Avenue; Mrs. Frank (Della) Bernard; and Helen Guelzow, 401 Miller Avenu...
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Who's New Club - Barn Dance

Date: 11 19 1948
Description: Members of the Who's New Club at a barn dance in the gymnasium of the YWCA. Three "country maidens" at left are: Mrs. M.E. Rudd, 4393 Monona Drive; Mrs. Fr...
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Who's New Club - Barn Dance

Date: 11 19 1948
Description: Members of the Madison Who's New Club at a barn dance in the YWCA gymnasium. Mrs. Edgar S. (Kathleen) Schreiber, left, chairman for the party, and Mrs. Rob...
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Who's New Club - Barn Dance

Date: 11 19 1948
Description: Members of the Madison Who's New Club at a barn dance at the YWCA gymnasium. Three women wearing bonnets pose next to a statue of Borden's "Elsie the Cow."...

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