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A Penny a Pound

Date: 02 22 1957
Description: Girls being weighed to determine their donations of a penny a pound to the YWCA camp.
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Book Fair

Date: 04 25 1964
Description: A book sale is held by the Mothers Association of Milwaukee-Downer Seminary.
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Soldiers' Orphans Home, Farwell House

Date: 1870
Description: Group of people posing outside of Soldiers' Orphans Home, located on Spaight Street between Paterson and Brearly Streets. The building was originally const...
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Children's Rhythm Band

Date: 07 08 1935
Description: Group portrait of children's rhythm band in uniform, posing on the lake shore terrace at Rutledge and S. Brearly Streets. They are getting ready to play an...
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Gov La Follette Buying "Buddy Poppies"

Date: 05 20 1931
Description: Gov. Philip La Follette buying two poppies from Jesse S. Meyers, custodian of G.A.R. Memorial Hall, representing Veterans of Foreign Wars, and Rosemary Ent...
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Add-a-Toy Mountain

Date: 12 17 1930
Description: View of a Christmas Add-a-Toy Mountain in the RKO Orpheum theater lobby, with a girl adding a doll to the mountain of toys. The toys are on and around a ta...
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Youth Charity Workers

Date: 03 21 1944
Description: Four-year-olds Mary Ellen McCreary and Sharon Ann Lee held a drive to benefit the Red Cross to provide candy, gum, cigarettes, donuts, and coffee for soldi...
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March of Dimes Wheelchair Race

Date: 02 09 1948
Description: Winning team in the March of Dimes wheelchair race, sponsored by the Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce: Clarence Beebe, kneeling, and in the back row, lef...
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Annie the Elephant Fund Raiser

Date: 02 27 1948
Description: Neighborhood children from the 2700 blocks of Van Hise Avenue and Mason Street held a bake sale to raise funds toward the purchase of a replacement for Ann...
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Girl Scouts Cookie Sale

Date: 04 06 1948
Description: Four Girl Scouts enjoy a snack after delivering Girl Scout cookies, Nancy Reis (Highlands-Mendota Beach School), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Reis, Virg...
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Ballweg Benefit Circus

Date: 08 04 1948
Description: Portrait of three Proudfit Street kids who produced a circus for the benefit of the Ballweg family, victims of a tornado at Springfield Hill. They are, lef...
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Knights of Columbus - Zor Shrine Softball Show

Date: 07 04 1948
Description: Group portrait of the Knights of Columbus softball team, and clowns, at the Knights of Columbus - Zor Shrine Softball Show at Breese Stevens Field.
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Ballweg Benefit

Date: 08 11 1948
Description: Group portrait of seven girls who put on an entertainment on Kendall Avenue, which raised $8.10 for the Ballweg family hit hard by the tornado that recentl...
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1948 Christmas Seal Design

Date: 11 15 1948
Description: The design for the 1948 Christmas seal.
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Child Posing for Christmas Seal

Date: 11 15 1948
Description: "Chuckie," a 3-year-old who has spent most of the past year as a patient at the Morningside Tuberculosis Sanatorium near Madison. He closely resembles the ...
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Girl Scouts Cookie Project

Date: 03 12 1949
Description: Judith Engel and Joanne Fraililng, Girl Scouts from Troop 46 at East Jr. High School, receiving cookies from Reidar Strand. The Strand Bakery, 2007 Atwood ...
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Girl Scouts Cookie Project

Date: 03 12 1949
Description: Nancy Hockett and Patricia Rinden, two Girl Scouts from Troop 46 at East Jr. High School, nibble cookies in anticipation of their project to sell cookies ...
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Wishing Well in Capitol Theatre

Date: 11 29 1949
Description: Robert Hoffman dropping coins into the wishing well at the Capitol Theatre for the Empty Stocking Club and the Kiddie Camp fund to "Help Bring Happiness to...
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The Red Cross War Fund Poster

Date: 1914
Description: "If You Can't Go Across With A Gun Come Across With Your Part Of The Red Cross War Fund." Poster depicting a man, wounded and bleeding with his arm in a sl...
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Governor Rennebohm Receiving an American Legion Poppy

Date: 05 10 1950
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm receiving the first poppy of the year from Patty Coyne, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J.J. Coyne and Phillip Thornton, son of Mr. and M...

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