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Preparing Christmas Seals
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One in a series of photographs depicting volunteers preparing a mailing of Christmas Seals as part of a campaign to raise funds to fight tuberculosis. Standing next to a sign that reads: "Madison Tuberculosis Association" are volunteers Jo Ann Deskin, left, and Mary Morris. With her back to camera is Esther Hermsen, executive secretary of the Madison Tuberculosis Association located at 26 East Gorham Street.
November 7, 1958
Stein, Edwin
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Preparing Christmas Seals
November 7, 1958
One in a series of photographs depicting volunteers preparing a mailing of Christmas Seals as part of a campaign to raise funds to fight tuberculosis. Helping stuff seals in the 1958 envelopes are,...
Preparing Christmas Seals
November 7, 1958
One in a series of photographs depicting volunteers preparing a mailing of Christmas Seals as part of a campaign to fight tuberculosis. Virginia Bowen, left, is displaying sheets of the 1958 seals....
Preparing Christmas Seals
November 7, 1958
One in a series of photographs depicting volunteers preparing a mailing of Christmas Seals as part of a campaign to fight tuberculosis. Volunteers, shown with piles of mailing materials, are, left ...
Christmas Seals
November 26, 1949
Gov. Oscar Rennebohm presenting a check for his contribution to the 1949 Madison Christmas Seal sale to Esther Hermsen of the Madison Tuberculosis Association.
We Saw You . . . Selling Christmas Trees
December 11, 1958
Emil Zentner, Nekoosa, carries dishwater out of his temporary house trailer located next to the Madison Drum and Bugle Corps parents' group Christmas tree lot at the Midvale Plaze Shopping Center o...
Madison Tuberculosis Association Fundraising
December 15, 1958
Esther Haack (seated left) sells a page of Christmas seals to Leone Wagner at the post office. The Madison Tuberculosis Association sells about $150 worth of seals at the post office each year.
