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Packing Red Cross Christmas Boxes
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Lois Wiessinger, Michael Mack, and Harold Stone, state employees, filled 21,600 Christmas packages to be sent by the American Red Cross to hospitalized servicemen overseas. The photograph was taken in the basement of the State Office Building.
September 9, 1944
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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