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Empty Stocking Fund Toy Depot
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Group portrait of five men working at the Empty Stocking Club Toy Depot. Left to right: Captain Leo Lewis, U.S. Marine Corps; James L. Williams and William K. Kuntz, Dane County Department of Public Assistance; Sargent Cris Krabbe, U.S. Marine Corps, and Officer Melford C. Burkeland, U.S. Marine Corps.
December 18, 1953
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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