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Women Packing Clothing for Hungarian Relief

Date: 12 15 1956
Description: Members of Tri-Hi Sorority and members of the First Unitarian Society packing clothing for Hungarian relief. (L to R), Mrs. Elnar Haugen, Mary Ellen Lather...
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Cub Scouts Donating Toys to Empty Stocking Fund

Date: 12 02 1950
Description: Cub Scouts from Pack 304 place toys for less fortunate boys and girls under a Christmas tree at St. Mark's Lutheran Church. The toys will go to the Wiscons...
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Christmas Seal Display

Date: 12 02 1950
Description: A group of girl scouts from Troop 99 of Bashford Methodist Church singing Christmas carols at a Christmas holiday display at a Madison law firm featuring t...
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Cub Scouts Pack Donated Toys to Empty Stocking Club

Date: 12 07 1951
Description: Members of Cub Scout Pack #304, sponsored by St. Mark's Lutheran Church, place toys under their Christmas tree that will be donated to the Empty Stocking C...
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Membership Tea for B'nai B'rith Women

Date: 09 02 1954
Description: Members of the B'nai B'rith Women social committee gather for the organization's Membership Tea. B'nai B'rith Women is a Jewish service and charitable orga...
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Membership Tea for B'nai B'rith Women

Date: 09 02 1954
Description: Mrs. S.B. Shien, Arlyne Hurwitz and Rose Gordon attend the Membership Tea for B'nai B'rith Women of Madison, a Jewish service and charitable organization. ...
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Membership Tea for B'nai B'rith Women

Date: 08 02 1954
Description: Mrs. Gerald Goldberg, guest speaker at the membership tea of the B'nai B'rith Women of Madison, receives a corsage from Madison membership chairman Elizabe...
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Membership Tea for B'nai B'rith Women

Date: 09 02 1954
Description: Group portrait of members who served as models in the style show at the Membership Tea of B'nai B'rith of Madison, a Jewish service and charitable organiza...
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Hawaiian Style Dancers at Benefit

Date: 01 23 1957
Description: Six Jewish husbands dressed as female Hawaiian dancers in wigs and grass skirts posing for the camera. The husbands were part of a presentation at the annu...
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Madison Jewish Welfare Council Dinner-Dance

Date: 05 06 1961
Description: Nathan Sudow, second from left with his wife Mary at his side, receives an engraved Israeli Bible honoring him for his many years of service to Jewish acti...
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Catholic Christ Child Circles

Date: 02 27 1956
Description: Attending a tea honoring long time members of Christ Child Club Circles are, left to right, Margaret Purcell, Laurine Bridge and Alice Gregg. They are look...
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Catholic Christ Child Circles

Date: 02 27 1956
Description: Attending a tea honoring long time members of Christ Child Club Circles are, left to right, Jeanette Foran, Mary Gox, Margaret Straub, and Rachel McKee. Th...
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Catholic Christ Child Circles

Date: 02 27 1956
Description: Attending a tea honoring long time members of Christ Child Club Circles are, left to right, Kathleen Maurer, president of Catholic Women's Club and Helen M...
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Testimonial Dinner for Jimmy Demetral

Date: 03 11 1964
Description: Jimmy Demetral sitting at the head table at his testimonial dinner. At his left is Rev. Nicholas Katinal, pastor of Assumption Greek Orthodox Church. The G...
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Toys Repaired at Oregon State Farm

Date: 12 10 1964
Description: View of two men, with their backs to the camera, are sitting in a workshop at Oregon State Farm painting toys. Pieces of freshly painted, disassembled toy ...
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Dane County American Legion Forty-and-Eight Banquet

Date: 03 28 1954
Description: At the Annual Dane County American Legion 40-and-8 banquet, they collected money for local charities. In the photograph R.C. Golden hands a check to Clyde ...
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Girl Praying for a Bright Christmas

Date: 11 17 1954
Description: A young girl kneeling at the side of a bed accompanies a plea for donating to the Empty Stocking Club organized by the Wisconsin State Journal. A st...
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Christ Presbyterian Church Women's Society Mission Tea

Date: 07 09 1957
Description: Minnie Hastings enjoying a cup of punch and some cookies at the annual missionary tea sponsored by the Women's Society of Christ Presbyterian Church. It wa...
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Christ Presbyterian Church Women's Society Mission Tea

Date: 07 09 1957
Description: Four ladies admire silk scarfs from India that were brought to the annual missionary tea by the speaker, Mrs. Milton Nichols of Reedsburg. The annual tea i...
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Christ Presbyterian Church Women's Society Mission Tea

Date: 07 09 1957
Description: Mary Collins (right) explains some of the intricacies of a harp to hostess Eleanore Conlin. She played a program of harp selections for the annual missiona...

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