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Chief McCormick Buying Forget-Me-Not

Date: 09 29 1932
Description: Chief of Police William McCormick buying the first Forget-me-not from the Disabled American Veterans on the Wisconsin State Capitol steps. Left to right: L...
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Easter Seal Volunteer Workers

Date: 03 04 1948
Description: Vocational school students and Easter Seal Workers stuffing envelopes for the Easter Seal campaign for mailing to Madison residents. Pictured left to right...
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Preparing for YWCA Benefit Party

Date: 02 07 1949
Description: Three women preparing for a YWCA benefit party to send representatives to an YWCA conference. Delores Nelson, left, is painting a poster. Violet Fisher, c...
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United Givers' Fund

Date: 10 06 1950
Description: Group portrait of the volunteer workers of the United Givers' Fund at their planning meeting for solicitation of business and industrial firms for their an...
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Empty Stocking Club

Date: 12 12 1950
Description: F.N. Weber and Mrs. William (Josephine) Doudna, head of the Empty Stocking Club toy distribution project, standing in front of shelves lined with toys.
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Empty Stocking Club

Date: 12 12 1950
Description: Mrs. Leslie (Luella) Morris and Allen Zoeller check for children's names in the "Holiday Exchange," a filing system which serves as a clearing house for th...
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Empty Stocking Fund

Date: 12 12 1950
Description: Four women help to distribute children's toys for the Empty Stocking Club at the Community Center. Left to right: Mrs. John Tews, Mrs. F.R. (Alice) Shores,...
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1951-52 United Givers' Fund Drive

Date: 10 16 1951
Description: Representing the Visiting Nurses Service is Mrs. Anna Forbis, 6112 Wingra Street. More than nine hundred volunteer workers are involved in a house-to-house...
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Empty Stocking Fund Donation

Date: 12 24 1953
Description: Bill Doudna of the Wisconsin State Journal (left) receives a $400 check for the Empty Stocking Fund from the Madison Barbershop Quartet organization...
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March of Dimes

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Brown and their three children. Russell, right, is still fighting the effects of his paralysis from polio; he pins a Mother...
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March of Dimes

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Portrait of five-year-old Lynn Stenrud with her mother Mrs. Ingvald Stenrud (middle), and Mrs. Robert Huehel (right), all from Deerfield. Lynn is wearing a...
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March of Dimes

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Group portrait of Joyce and Norbert Plewke with their daughter, Pamela, who recently recovered from polio. Mrs. Plewke will participate in the upcoming Mot...
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March of Dimes

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Cummings of Waunakee and their five children. The four older children put money in a contribution container for the Mothers' March...
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Shorewood Hills Boys with "Roundy"

Date: 07 30 1954
Description: Shorewood Hills boys shown with "Roundy" Coughlin, Wisconsin State Journal columnist, after the presentation of money raised for Roundy's Fun Fund a...
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University of Wisconsin Red Cross Fundraising Drive

Date: 03 12 1956
Description: University of Wisconsin Ph.D. student Peter E. Graf of Syracuse, New York does a laboratory experiment. He is a member of the Red Cross "Two Gallon Blood D...
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Junior Chamber of Commerce Auxiliary

Date: 03 22 1957
Description: Group portrait of members of a Junior Chamber of Commerce Auxiliary planning committee. Front row, left to right: Mrs. Gerald Padgham and Nancy Piper. Back...
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Sororities Open Houses

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Three women pose by a piano inside a sorority house. They are the chairman and two assistants of a benefit scholarship project sponsored by the Madison Alu...
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Altrusa Club Spring Garden Festival

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Mrs. Norman Gill is standing and looking out of a window from inside her home at Spring Hill Farm near Cambridge, viewing the surrounding countryside and t...
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Roundy's Fun Fund Committee Members

Date: 01 17 1958
Description: Shown left to right, are Barney Gill, James Geisler, chairman of "Roundy's Fun Fund" committee, Dagney Wang, recording secretary, and Joseph R. "Roundy" Co...
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Benefit Musicale at St. Francis House

Date: 03 18 1957
Description: Songs from foreign lands were presented at a benefit musicale at the St. Francis House, 1001 University Avenue. The event was sponsored by Episcopalians f...

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