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Red Cross First Aid Training

Date: 02 11 1942
Description: Two women applying bandages to a female patient with a nurse looking on. They are Wisconsin State Capitol employees learning first aid from the Red Cross.
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Mt. Horeb Swimming Class

Date: 08 03 1945
Description: A Red Cross instructor with a children's swimming class at the Bluemounds swimming pool. The instructor is George Steiner, assistant principal at Madison W...
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Mt. Horeb Swimming Class

Date: 08 03 1945
Description: Mt. Horeb children and adults splashing in the Bluemound pool during a Red Cross swimming class.
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Mt. Horeb Swimming Class

Date: 08 03 1945
Description: Children leaving the truck hired by the Red Cross Chapter of Mt. Horeb to drive them to a swimming class at the Bluemounds pool.
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Junior Red Cross

Date: 1946
Description: Lapham School students with gift boxes prepared by Junior Red Cross members to be sent to boys and girls overseas. Shown with teacher Gladys Halvorsen are,...
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Junior Red Cross

Date: 12 15 1946
Description: East High School clothing and homemaking teacher Helen Mathias (second from right), helping three of her students to make wool jumpers for the Junior Red C...
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Junior Red Cross

Date: 12 15 1946
Description: Blessed Sacrament School students (left to right), Jerry Quinn, Bill Laughnan, Mary Ann Petranek, Donna Wartner, and Maxine Watson, shown with hospital tra...
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Junior Red Cross

Date: 11 18 1947
Description: Four members of the Junior Red Cross shown packing boxes for children in the war-torn countries of Europe. From left are Harry Hinze, Central High School; ...
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Junior Red Cross County Council

Date: 05 15 1948
Description: Group portrait of the newly elected officers of the Junior Red Cross high school county council. Pictured left to right: Dave Catlin, Sun Prairie high scho...
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Junior Red Cross Council Toy Drive

Date: 11 23 1948
Description: Fritz Hanson, Peggy Huiskamp, and Winifred Grant of Wisconsin High School, are shown checking on the drive for toys which the school's Junior Red Cross Cou...
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Junior Red Cross Variety Show

Date: 02 23 1949
Description: Junior Red Cross variety show. James Stiene and Dick Grahn with sticks, work hard in the variety show's Chinese play under the supervision of Bob Pickarts....
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Junior Red Cross Variety Show

Date: 02 23 1949
Description: Junior Red Cross variety show at Washington School auditorium. Performers are: Barbara Marshall, Jane Rosen and Deanne Macaulay. The students are from Lowe...
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Junior Red Cross Variety Show

Date: 02 23 1949
Description: Junior Red Cross Variety Show at Washington School. Ruth Bowes, acrobat; Delores Spaanem, accordionist; Stefan Anderson, Master of Ceremonies. The students...
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Junior Red Cross Training Camp

Date: 08 01 1949
Description: Four Madison high school youth are standing with their luggage near the entrance to a train car as they prepare to depart for the Red Cross training center...
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Red Cross Home Nursing Class

Date: 10 17 1949
Description: Thirteen women take a lesson in home nursing from Red Cross volunteer nurse, Leone Higgins, 2231 Oakridge Avenue, seated at the head of the table at left. ...
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Junior Red Cross Leadership Training

Date: 10 25 1949
Description: Organizers of the Junior Red Cross leadership training conference gather around a table. From left are: Lois Brustman, Wisconsin High School; Stefan Anders...
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Junior Red Cross Leadership Training

Date: 10 25 1949
Description: Three Edgewood High School students enroll in the Junior Red Cross leadership training conference. From left are: John McCormick, Wayne Pope, and D'Ann Gra...
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Junior Red Cross Leadership Training

Date: 10 25 1949
Description: Three Holy Redeemer school students prepareingsupplies for the Junior Red Cross Leadership Training Conference. From left are: Roberta Ripp, James Faust, a...
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Junior Red Cross Leadership Training

Date: 09 25 1949
Description: Esther T. Carswell, an art teacher at Central Junior High School, works with Dennis Herfel and Anne Holm as they make Halloween decorations for patients at...
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Junior Red Cross Leadership Training

Date: 10 25 1949
Description: Bill Rayne, chairman of the motor corps division of the Junior Red Cross, unloads a box of cancer dressings for the Madison board of health during a Junior...

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