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| Date: | 10 14 1931 |
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| Description: | Mr. Bellam and George O'Connell discuss the "Forget-Me-Not" campaign for Disabled American Veterans. |
| Date: | 12 23 1930 |
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| Description: | Collection of food for Salvation Army. Shows four men, two in uniform, and two wearing suits, in the Strand theater lobby. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Three women work in the Community War Chest office. One of the women is typing and one is about to use the telephone. A sign on the wall behind the women r... |
| Date: | 09 11 1947 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Attic Angel Association meeting at the Visiting Nurse Service headquarters, 418 West Mifflin Street. Left to right: Mrs. Walter A. (D... |
| Date: | 09 16 1950 |
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| Description: | Caroline Genske, an office worker at Gisholt Machine Company, starts the process of check writing for the nearly one hundred percent participation of the c... |
| Date: | 01 16 1951 |
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| Description: | Members of the Madison Business and Professional Women's Club address envelopes to be sent out for the March of Dimes fundraising campaign. Seated, left t... |
| Date: | 07 17 1951 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Edgar A. Spees, new Director of Dane County Red Cross, sitting at a desk. |
| Date: | 11 09 1953 |
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| Description: | Mail carrier Joseph L. Ripp delivers Christmas seals to Mrs. M. Leslie (Gretchen) Holt at 133 Langdon Street. They are for the traditional fund raising dri... |
| Date: | 02 28 1956 |
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| Description: | Barbara Lawson, representing the Truax Field Officers' Wives' Club, models fashion for the 'smart clubwomen.' The proceeds of the style shows were to maint... |
| Date: | 11 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Rev. E. J. Van Handel, Madison's Diocesan Director of the Catholic Welfare Bureau, sitting at his desk. Fr. Van Handel was also a promoter of t... |
| Date: | 11 26 1956 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Robert I. Perina, deputy district attorney of Dane county, seated at his desk. He assisted the Empty Stocking Club, an organized group dedicate... |
| Date: | 10 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Portrait of the executive directors of the City YWCA and the University of Wisconsin YWCA, one of the Red Feather services of the United Givers' Fund. They... |
| Date: | 10 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Elizabeth Siska, district supervisor with Children's Service Society, and Miss Ann Clark, a case worker, are shown with a ten-week-old baby boy to be ... |
| Date: | 10 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Cass Williams, executive director of the Black Hawk Council of Girl Scouts, explains the workings of an outdoor stove to Jeanne Matoba. The council is... |
| Date: | 10 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Miss Lillian Nitcher using the telephone. She is the associate executive secretary of the Community Welfare Council, and executive secretary of the Madison... |
| Date: | 07 13 1959 |
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| Description: | A check in the amount of $238,500 for the purchase of the old United Community Chest headquarters at 14 West Johnson Street was presented to Chest official... |
| Date: | 09 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Marine Corps reserve unit adviser, Major E.G. Usher, is shown at his desk. Usher was in the news because he advised a change from a separate effort to help... |
| Date: | 12 19 1960 |
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| Description: | The women's chapter of B'nai B'rith took care of the entertainment of patients and guests at the VA hospital on Christmas morning. Alma Sweet, longtime lia... |
| Date: | 12 12 1964 |
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| Description: | Four U.W. Greeks unloading a bed frame from a truck. The Department of Public Welfare Group Home (for women) moved from 404 W. Washington Avenue to 305 N. ... |
| Date: | 05 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Milo and Ida Kittleson in their Spaight Street home. He is an attorney, and she has been active in several local charities. |
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