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Empty Stocking Club Toy Depot

Date: 12 21 1949
Description: Dozens of contributed stuffed toys are examined by volunteers for The State Journal Empty Stocking Club. In the front row, left to right, are: Alice Shores...
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 11 1950
Description: Nurse Sadie Zum Brunnen tends to a patient, seven-year-old Bonita Gill, at Madison General Hospital. Sadie is a member of the Madison Business and Professi...
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Empty Stocking Club Toy Depot

Date: 12 17 1951
Description: Individuals standing beside a table laden with a collection of one hundred sixty dolls and stuffed animals collected at a square dance for the Wisconsin...
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Empty Stocking Club

Date: 10 23 1954
Description: Rebecca Rae Rodgerson, age three, hugs a doll she received from the Empty Stocking Club, as imagined in Monte Allen's dream. The club, sponsored by the ...
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Empty Stocking Club

Date: 11 29 1957
Description: Empty Stocking Club's gift wrapping committee posing amidst dolls on display at Sear's toy department. Left to right: E.L. Diener, manager of the Sears sto...
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Madison Woman's Club Doll Project

Date: 12 11 1957
Description: Gertrude Kepke, chairman of the social service department of the Woman's Club of Madison, and Lauraine Jensen, chairman of the club's orthopedic work, are ...
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Neighborhood House N.B.B.O. Club Scrapbook: Packing Juanita's Suitcase

Date: 12 1937
Description: Members of the N.B.B.O. Club at Neighborhood House, posing with the contents of a suitcase they put together to send to a five-year-old girl in Spain. The ...
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Neighborhood House Orioles Club Scrapbook: Orioles with Their Dolls

Date: 1940
Description: Group portrait of the Orioles, members of a club for ten-year-old girls at Neighborhood House. A former worker at the settlement house then working in a ho...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Orioles Club Scrapbook: Li Hsiu Lan

Date: 1939
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by the Orioles, a girls' club at Neighborhood House, with papercuts and an image of Li Hsiu Lan, a girl to whom club members cor...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Orioles Club Scrapbook: Orioles with Dolls and Scrapbooks

Date: 1940
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with members of the Orioles, a girls' club at the settlement house. There are six images of members displ...
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Preparing for "U" League Dinner

Date: 01 06 1959
Description: Mrs. Frederic E. Mohs (left), Mrs. Carl Dutton, Mrs. A.R. Curreri, Mrs. Alfred J. Stamm, and Mrs. Virgil E. Herrick prepare Norwegian dolls to decorate the...
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Madison Woman's Club Meeting

Date: 10 07 1960
Description: Mildred Horne, the new president of the Wisconsin Federation of Women's Clubs, was honored with a surprise "This is Your Life" program at a recent meeting ...
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Group of Eighth Grade Girls in the Boys and Girls Club

Date: 05 1928
Description: Outdoor group portrait of eighth grade girls in the Boys and Girls Club. Two of the girls are holding small dolls.
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Yule Tea for Homemakers Club Members

Date: 12 06 1957
Description: Five-year-old Kristine Johnson holding a handmade Santa Claus doll at the Christmas tea for Dane County Homemakers Clubs.
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Empty Stocking Club Recipient

Date: 11 25 1958
Description: An unnamed 4-year-old girl holds close her new doll. The Empty Stocking Club was founded in 1919 by the Wisconsin State Journal 'to guarantee that n...

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