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| Date: | 11 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Bessie Koen serves the first course of the traditional turkey-and-trimmings dinner to James Eckert. Dinner was served by the Volunteers of America to 56 me... |
| 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: | 11 04 1947 |
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| Description: | As part of their observance of Zonta Week, members of the Madison Zonta club are shown packing boxes of clothing to be sent to Zontians in Denmark, Holland... |
| Date: | 09 08 1950 |
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| Description: | Jules S. Jacobs sitting on a bed at the American Red Cross Regional Blood Center on East Washington Avenue after becoming the one thousandth donor at the n... |
| Date: | 09 10 1951 |
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| Description: | Emma (Mrs. W.J.) Teckemeyer poses with some of the 13 quilted lap robes which she has personally made for the patients at the new Veterans' Administration ... |
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| Description: | A group of elderly women sit together at a table working on March of Dimes activities. Pictured are Ona Smith, Julie Simonson, Mary Zweifel, Gussie Rowe, M... |
| Date: | 04 26 1953 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Rena Gigous made 200 cancer dressings in January. The dressings are displayed at Baron's and Yost Kessnichs department stores. |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Betty Sullivan, a Red Cross Worker, serving coffee and talking with B-29 crew at Kobler Field in Saipan. Sullivan is reaching for a large coffee pot and is... |
| Date: | 05 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Jack Schwartz of Roxbury holding a 3-month-old baby girl on her lap. The child is one of the nearly 60 foster children that Mrs. Schwartz has cared fo... |
| Date: | 05 31 1954 |
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| Description: | Ruth Harris, left, general chair of the Federated Garden Clubs flower show, and Burdean Struckmeyer, in charge of the flower arrangement schedule, sitting ... |
| Date: | 10 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Edith Getz (left), Lillian Fried, and George Bernhagen cooking pancakes on an improvised grill during a Civil Defence emergency mass-feeding practice. |
| Date: | 10 07 1954 |
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| Description: | Five members of Alpha Delta Kappa, an honorary education sorority, are shown at their Founders' Day Banquet. Seated are: Mrs. Charles Parker, president, Al... |
| Date: | 08 21 1956 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mrs. Edward S. Dodge of Lake Mills, program chair of the Madison Woman's Club. |
| Date: | 05 13 1957 |
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| Description: | Madison General Hospital Junior Aide volunteer Betsy Dye delivers a plant to Mrs. M.C. Palmer at her bedside. |
| Date: | 05 01 1957 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Norman Gill is standing and looking out of a window from inside her home at Spring Hill Farm near Cambridge, viewing the surrounding countryside and t... |
| Date: | 05 01 1957 |
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| Description: | A volunteer discussing seed catalogs with two nursing home residents as they are sitting outside on lawn chairs. They are at Monona Drive Rest Home at 4202... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A white male Freedom Summer volunteer teaches African-American students in a Freedom School in Priest Creek Baptist Church. |
| 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: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Two women stand on the porch of a home. Three men, probably Freedom Summer volunteers, are talking to them. |
| Date: | 12 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Sorority members Jeanne Postweiler, Lucy Flinn and Jean Kelzenberg stuff envelopes as part of a volunteer project of Chi Delta sorority. |
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