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| Date: | 06 07 1945 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of board members of the Red Cross sponsored group "Parlor Tricks". Left to right: Jeanette Youngblood, Dorothy Reis, Betty Johnson, Grace Sh... |
| Date: | 06 27 1945 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Charles C. (Alice) Long is shown with the flag she crocheted for her son, Lieutenant Commander H.W. Christensen, who is a surgeon, serving in the Paci... |
| 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: | 01 24 1947 |
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| Description: | Four members of the Who's New Club, in Civil War costumes. One woman is seated at a piano, one sitting near a spinning wheel, and two standing. They are pa... |
| Date: | 11 11 1947 |
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| Description: | Armistice Day ceremony with Mrs. Ella M. Bresee, representing the Grand Army of the Republic and the Daughters of 1812, shown placing a wreath at the cenot... |
| Date: | 05 04 1950 |
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| Description: | Lucille Colt, a bank clerk and member of the WAC medical corps in World War II, presents an inscribed gavel to Harrison L. Garner, a board member who was r... |
| Date: | 08 22 1950 |
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| Description: | A memorial plaque in honor of Corporal Kenneth Grosse was presented to the air force man's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Grosse, center, and their daughter, P... |
| Date: | 10 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Depicting Florence Nightingale at the time of the Crimean war of 1853, a costumed Marie Timlin tends to "wounded soldier" Harold Hermanson. The enactment i... |
| Date: | 03 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of two dignitaries with their wives that took part in the banquet honoring the president of the national auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreig... |
| Date: | 09 28 1967 |
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| Description: | The bronze star is awarded posthumously to Private First Class Thomas E. Broome for bravery in action in Vietnam. Broome's father Stanley Broome is accepti... |
| Date: | 09 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large group of state employees are standing at long tables laden with items to be packed into Red Cross Christmas boxes for soldiers. Th... |
| Date: | 09 17 1942 |
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| Description: | Health for Victory stage, set up with posters, stove and refrigerator for Oscar Mayer at the Eastwood Theater. On the stage is a woman pointing to a poster... |
| Date: | 08 17 1942 |
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| Description: | State female employees making surgical dressings / bandages for the American Red Cross in the Wisconsin State Employees Association building, 448 W. Washin... |
| Date: | 08 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Albert (Nima) Quentmeyer took in two young girls from a broken home after raising six sons, who have since grown up. Some of her sons are serving in t... |
| Date: | 06 07 1945 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Red Cross sponsored group, "Parlor Tricks," who entertain convalescent patients in the Army Air Force's regional hospital at Truax Field.... |
| Date: | 06 07 1945 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of three members of "Parlor Tricks" being instructed by Mrs. Frances Maloney, Red Cross recreation director. Pictured left to right: Lorrain... |
| 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: | 10 09 1951 |
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| Description: | The Distinguished Service Cross for heroism was given posthumously to Capt. Robert Walker, Lancaster, who was killed as the result of heroic action near Sa... |
| Date: | 10 03 1953 |
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| Description: | Former P.O.W. George R. Hansen posing for a photograph after a football game between Wisconsin and Marquette at Camp Randall. The game climaxed a day of ho... |
| Date: | 10 21 1960 |
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| Description: | Members of the Lucius Fairchild Women's Relief Corps No. 37 present a U.S. flag to the newly formed World War I Auxiliary in a ceremony held at the GAR Mem... |
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