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| 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: | 07 10 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mrs. Donald W. (Ruth Wilson) Rindt and sons, Jon (3) and Brian (1). She's was staying with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.N. Wilson, prior to join... |
| Date: | 07 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Members of the Spanish Refugee Benefit Committee are shown planning for the event. Mrs. Robert Seidl and daughter Lynn on the left, Mrs. Frank Rentz, Mrs. ... |
| Date: | 07 25 1945 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Paul (Betty) Jensen and her daughter Karen (on rocking horse) are living with her husband's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jensen, while her husband is in... |
| Date: | 07 25 1945 |
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| Description: | Mrs. W. Llewellyn (Janet) Millar and her three children, Dean (6), Janet (4), and Mary (1), who are staying with her mother, Mrs. Joseph Dean (Minnie Karst... |
| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Members of the Junior Red Cross of Madison making Christmas cards, tray favors, Christmas tree ornaments, and recreation hall decorations for service units... |
| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Junior Red Cross members making Christmas tree decorations for military service units and hospitals overseas. Arline Whitefoot, on the right, assists a you... |
| Date: | 10 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Major William N. Donovan with his wife and daughter. He had just returned to Madison after 39 months as a Japanese prisoner. Their daughter, Josie, was bor... |
| Date: | 02 25 1949 |
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| Description: | West High School pupils Muriel Showers and Anna Pronin watch Pamela Showers, 15 months, and Joan Gmeinder, 7, model two of the outfits that clothing studen... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Annabel Nelson places three rubber toys on a scale, presumably to donate them to the war effort, while F.E. Williams looks on. The two crouch on the groun... |
| Date: | 01 13 1950 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Don Dickinson of 114 East Mifflin Street, World War II veteran, with his three-year-old daughter Linda Sue seated in his lap. Mr. Dickinson is ... |
| Date: | 08 09 1943 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Harvey White of Minneapolis, Minnesota gives blood plasma to a wounded soldier lying on a stretcher, while civilian women and children look on from th... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Children collecting scrap deposit it on a trailer outside the front door of North Bright School. A sign on the school announces: "MacArthur Week Scrap Coll... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Men hauling wagon loads of scrap metal with a Farmall H tractor, horses, and an automobile. The men are participating in a scrap drive, possibly during Gov... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of children, including members of the Woodville High School Booster Club, stand near a pile of scrap metal. Some of the children are holding musica... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Helmuth Strobush and his son Jerry haul scrap metal with a Farmall H tractor and a McCormick-Deering farm wagon. The tractor is parked near a co-op service... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two young boys in a pile of metal collected from a scrap drive in front of the Farmers Mercantile Company, an International Harvester dealership. A man sta... |
| Date: | 10 30 1951 |
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| Description: | Dale N. Gillings, center, of Middleton and a former naval aviation radioman receives the Distinguished Flying Cross from Commander J.E. McCue of the Madiso... |
| Date: | 06 17 1952 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Mary Ellen Fletcher used an inheritance to fly her mother and father in-laws from Birmingham, England to Madison to witness their sons graduation from... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Three boys and a woman standing near several signs advertising a war garden. The signs read (from top to bottom): "Every Boy Can Feed a Soldier," "Register... |
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