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Flower Arrangement
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West Side Garden Club member and Red Cross Gray lady therapist Christina Dana is shown with a floral arrangement used in helping Mendota State Hospital patients learn the skill of artistic arrangement. An unidentified woman assists at right.
March 11, 1957
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Flower Arrangement
March 11, 1957
Little Garden Club members Pearl Nordeen and Lydia Shafer posing with their floral arrangement at the Red Cross office.
Shsorewood Garden Club Clilnic
June 4, 1957
Betty Geisler, left, and Elizabeth Oldenburg posing with flower arrangements at a clinic for Shorewood Garden Club members.
Altrusa Club Spring Garden Festival
May 1, 1957
Makita Tomita (right), a native of Tokyo, Japan, demonstrating basic Japanese flower arrangement. Looking on at left, are Altrusa Club members Janet Jennings and Julia Grady.
Red Cross Blood Drive
October 4, 1957
Edward R. Brann prepares to give his third gallon of blood during a Red Cross blood drive.
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 Blood Drive
July 1, 1957
Chester L. Gill receives a blood transfusion from nurses Marion Hackett and Ann Drollinger at Madison General Hospital. The Gill family has been volunteer Red Cross blood donors for several years.
