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Madison General Hospital Auxiliary

Date: 01 02 1951
Description: Madison General Hospital Auxiliary volunteer workers, Dorothy (Robert W.) Wylde, left, and Margaret (Eldon B.) Russell, deliver plants to hospital patients...
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Freedom School Teacher and Students

Date: 1964
Description: Sandra Adickes (right), Freedom Summer volunteer teacher at Palmer's Crossing Freedom School. Students (left) are Rita Mae Crawford and Jimella Stokes.
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Gettysburg Hero

Date: 1903
Description: Statue of John L. Burns, the elderly citizen-hero of the Battle of Gettysburg, who fought with the 7th Wisconsin on July 1, 1863 and was wounded. A veteran...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 444-451

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Description: When we built our house
we couldn't afford it, but we built everything the best
It's our fortune, and I am so very thankful

A rock
An ark ...
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Collecting Woolen Items for the Front

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Description: Results of the "Reich's Wool Week." Every day loads of wool garments arrived at the collection point in the old Kroll Opera House and were sorted by volunt...
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Female Red Cross Volunteers

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Description: Female Red Cross volunteers in front of the Reichstag building.
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Daycare

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Description: Daycare for the children of soldiers. Children are cared for and given food daily, without charge, by volunteer aids.
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Daycare

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Description: Daycare for the children of soldiers. Children are cared for and given food daily, without charge, by volunteer aids.
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Daycare

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Description: At a daycare facility for the children of soldiers.
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Feeding The Needy

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Description: Feeding the needy in Friedenau-Wilmersdorf at the Kaiserplatz.
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Ortelsburg in East Prussia

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Description: Landrat (local official) distributing gutscheine (food coupons) to the poor.
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Volunteer Unit

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Description: Deutschwehr (war volunteer) unit in training.
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First Aid Dogs

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Description: German first aid dogs and their trainers on parade.
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Sharpshooters of the Polish Legion

Date: 1914
Description: The Polish Legion was a volunteer force of ethnic Poles raised by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914. It had various incarnations during the war, and its me...
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Officers of the Polish Legion

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Description: The Polish Legion was a volunteer force of ethnic Poles raised by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914. It had various incarnations during the war, and its me...
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Officers of the Polish Legion

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Description: The Polish Legion was a volunteer force of ethnic Poles raised by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914. It had various incarnations during the war, and its me...
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Polish Legion Trumpeter

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Description: The Polish Legion was a volunteer force of ethnic Poles raised by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914. It had various incarnations during the war, and its me...
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Firing Line

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Description: The Polish Legion was a volunteer force of ethnic Poles raised by the Austro-Hungarian army in 1914. It had various incarnations during the war, and its me...
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Letterwinners Club

Date: 05 02 1989
Description: In the left foreground a woman is leaning on a fence while watching three people cleaning a half empty pool. Caption reads: "About 50 members of the Letter...
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During: New Drinking Fountain Project

Date: 1916
Description: View of the sign which gives credit to the Oconto Women's Club for putting in the new drinking fountain for horses at the junction of Main and Chicago Stre...

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