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Holiday Canned Food Drive

Date: 11 22 1955
Description: Thomas Constable (left) and Walter Medenski (right), pose in front of canned food gathered by pupils at the Center Street school for the Salvation Army's T...
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Food Drive for Thanksgiving

Date: 11 18 1965
Description: Elementary school students collect nonperishable food to be distributed by the Salvation Army.
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Children Receiving Food Parcels from the Boys and Girls Club

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Description: Children lined up outside a pharmacy to receive potatoes, eggs, and other items packaged by the Boys and Girls Club.
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Governor Walter Kohler and Polio Victims

Date: 01 07 1953
Description: Governor Walter Kohler sits with 2 1/2 year old Deborah Foster and her mother Ruth Foster, both polio victims. Governor Kohler is proclaiming January as "M...
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Girl Scouts Training at Washington Orthopedic School

Date: 03 22 1944
Description: Dane County Unit of the Association for the Disabled training members of Girl Scout Troop No. 6 at the Washington Orthopedic School for Crippled Children, ...
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Girl Reserves

Date: 01 14 1945
Description: Five Girl Reserves (?) shown with items of clothing collected for the war effort.
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Paper Drive

Date: 08 11 1945
Description: Members of the Junior Red Cross, Boy Scouts of Troops 20 and 30, and boys of Madison, sitting on the back of a Truax Field army truck loaded with waste pap...
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War Chest Team Playing Baseball

Date: 09 25 1945
Description: War Chest youth baseball team members up at bat. The members are standing in order to bat while one team member is batting. The Madison War Chest contribut...
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Neighborhood Circus Promoters

Date: 1946
Description: Group portrait of 5 children who put on a neighborhood circus behind the Bonura home at 617 Spruce Street to raise money for Roundy's Fun Fund. They charg...
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Youth Community Chest Drive

Date: 09 17 1948
Description: Members of the youth speakers' committee of the Madison Youth Council making plans for their part in the Community Chest drive. Left to right: David Matson...
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Madison Youth Council Activities

Date: 10 14 1948
Description: James Ketchum, left, and Annette Nelson, right, members of the Madison Youth Council, admire their display in the window of Moseley's Book Store, which was...
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Cub Scouts at Christmas Tree

Date: 12 06 1948
Description: Ten cub scouts from Cub Pack 319 placing gifts for less fortunate boys and girls under a Christmas tree at Marquette School. Standing, left to right, are J...
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Nakoma Girl Scouts, Troop 42

Date: 12 16 1949
Description: In preparation for Christmas, Girl Scout Troop 42 of Nakoma School made 30 stuffed animals for children at the Washington Orthopedic school, and 100 Christ...
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Madison Heart Fund Drive

Date: 01 24 1950
Description: Three women who will take part in the Madison Heart Fund Drive visit with Dennis Swanson of Shopiere who is a patient at the Rheumatic Fever Convalescent H...
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Girl Scout Selling Cookies

Date: 03 16 1950
Description: Troop 118 Girl Scout Pauline Heland of 228 Langdon Street gets an order for Girl Scout cookies from Francis F. Bowman, Jr., president of the Madison Commun...
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Student Speakers' Bureau

Date: 09 27 1950
Description: Five members of the student speakers' bureau for the United Givers' Fund posing for a group portrait. Speaking at right: Peter Noer, West High School. Seat...
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Clothing Collected for Korea

Date: 11 04 1950
Description: Dick Brilliott, left, and John Hudson, co-chairmen of the Madison Youth Clothes-for-Korea drive, eye the piles of clothing lining the halls of the Madison ...
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Christmas Seal Display

Date: 12 02 1950
Description: A group of girl scouts from Troop 99 of Bashford Methodist Church singing Christmas carols at a Christmas holiday display at a Madison law firm featuring t...
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1951-52 United Givers' Fund Drive

Date: 10 16 1951
Description: Representing the Girl Scouts is Ann Toborsky, 516 South Orchard Street, a member of Troop 182 at St. James School. More than nine hundred volunteer workers...
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Holiday Charity Doubleheaders

Date: 12 04 1951
Description: The East High School basketball team plays in the Holiday Doubleheader games at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Field House. This is the seventh annual...

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