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| Date: | 09 09 1949 |
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| Description: | As part of its participation in the local Community Fund, several members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 117 employed by the Kingan Packing Company v... |
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| Description: | Robert S. Allen, a well-known journalist who lost his arm while serving during World War II, purchases Easter Seals from a handicapped girl. Allen was act... |
| Date: | 05 22 1952 |
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| Description: | "Roundy" Coughlin posing with a parking meter given to him for collecting donations to his empty stocking fund. |
| Date: | 10 05 1953 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the advance gifts division leaders for the 1953 United Givers Fund campaign. Standing, left to right: John w. Fish, Kenneth L. White, Ezr... |
| Date: | 09 08 1954 |
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| Description: | Nels Anderson of 524 East Washington Avenue tells why he endorses the "fair share" plan of the United Givers Campaign. |
| Date: | 09 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Three construction workers are dressed in white work clothes while working with sponges, pails, and a scaffold, and standing by an open window. They includ... |
| Date: | 12 28 1954 |
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| Description: | Everett L. Liddicoat, an insurance agent and 4-year veteran of the Army Air Corps, was diagnosed with polio in 1949. |
| Date: | 08 21 1956 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin, sportswriter for Wisconsin State Journal, with five girls who put on a neighborhood style show t... |
| Date: | 08 30 1956 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of children from the Shorewood Hills play school who put on a carnival with the proceeds going to "Roundy's Fun Fund." With them is Joseph L... |
| Date: | 09 15 1956 |
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| Description: | Six children from the Madison Westmorland neighborhood, who raised money for Roundy's charity for children, posing for a portrait with "Roundy" Coughlin. L... |
| 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: | 11 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Joseph R. (Roundy) Coughlin poses with members of the Madison West High School girls' club who stuffed envelopes for "Roundy's Fun Fund." The club advisor,... |
| Date: | 11 17 1957 |
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| Description: | Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin holds an autographed football auctioned off at an Empty Stocking Club telethon. Standing with him is Patricia Cornwell, secretary ... |
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| Description: | Actress Audrey Hepburn, then a representative of UNICEF, visiting Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey in his office. She was in Washington to testify on b... |
| 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: | 06 30 1959 |
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| Description: | A group of kids is shown with "Roundy" Coughlin. They put on a carnival in the back yard of Jim Riphahn on Madison's east side to raise money for "Roundy's... |
| 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: | 09 08 1960 |
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| Description: | Findorff Construction project foreman Paul Thering (left) receives materials and instructions for a new method of United Givers solicitation. Giving out th... |
| Date: | 09 09 1960 |
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| Description: | Construction worker John Ripp (left) receives a pledge card and brochure on United Givers Fund Red Feather services from Findorff Company engineer William ... |
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