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Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross
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Mrs. J.H. Svendsen, a volunteer Gray Lady of the Dane County Red Cross, shown tending patient's plants in the greenhouse at the Mendota hopsital for the mentally ill.
November 1, 1948
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross
November 1, 1948
Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross sorting books at the library of Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Left to right: Mrs. Frederick Hillyer, and Mrs. William Murray.
Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross
November 1, 1948
Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross reading outdoors to patients of the Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Shown standing, at left, is Mrs. William Walker, and at right, Mrs. E.J. Sawyer.
Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross
November 1, 1948
Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross teaching jewelry-making to a group of patients at the Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Gray Ladies, shown at the top of the picture, are, at left, Mrs...
Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross
November 1, 1948
Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross serving tea to two unidentified patients at the Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Left to right are: Mrs. H. Lewis Greene, chairperson of the Gray Lady...
Red Cross Gray Ladies
February 23, 1954
Leaders of the Red Cross Gray Ladies confer. They are, from left: Gladys Erickson, who is taking over as Gray Ladies at the Veterans Hospital; Deborah Sherman, current chair; and Iona Hein, chair o...
Red Cross Gray Ladies
June 7, 1953
Mrs. Albert H. (Kath) Mayer works as one of the Gray Ladies (volunteers) of the Red Cross and pours a mold in the ceramics room in the occupational therapy section at the Veteran's Administration H...
