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Volunteers of America Dinner

Date: 11 26 1952
Description: Mary Hawkins, assisted by Thorwald Anderson, Checker Cab driver, arrives for a Thanksgiving dinner served by the Volunteers of America to 56 members of its...
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Roundy Coughlin and Bernard Gill

Date: 01 14 1949
Description: Roundy Coughlin, right, turning over to Bernard Gill, secretary of Roundy's Fun Fund, a check for $4,000.25. This money is used for the handicapped childre...
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Madison Community Chest Budget Committee

Date: 04 05 1949
Description: Portrait of Francis F. Bowman Jr., chair of the 1949 Madison Community Chest budget committee. Mr. Bowman is a mining engineer with the Mesabi-Mineral Asso...
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Madison Community Chest Budget Committee

Date: 04 05 1949
Description: Portrait of Phoebe Hayes, librarian for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and representative from the Madison Feder...
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Madison Community Chest Budget Committee

Date: 04 05 1949
Description: Portrait of Stanley Prideaux, worker at the Gisholt Machine Company, who is representing the CIO Dane County Industrial Union council on the 1949 Madison C...
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Roundy Coughlin with Parking Meter for Donations

Date: 05 22 1952
Description: "Roundy" Coughlin posing with a parking meter given to him for collecting donations to his empty stocking fund.
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Edgar A. Spees

Date: 07 17 1951
Description: Portrait of Edgar A. Spees, new Director of Dane County Red Cross, sitting at a desk.
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Roundy and Boy

Date: 08 12 1952
Description: Roundy Coughlin accepts a dollar from a boy, probably for his Fun Fund.
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Polio Survivors Value March of Dimes

Date: 12 28 1954
Description: Everett L. Liddicoat, an insurance agent and 4-year veteran of the Army Air Corps, was diagnosed with polio in 1949.
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Jaycette Style Show Models

Date: 02 28 1956
Description: Betty Geisler, representing the Blackhawk Country Club Women's Organization, models fashion for the 'smart clubwomen.' The proceeds of the style shows were...
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Jaycette Style Show Models

Date: 02 28 1956
Description: Charlotte Lunsford, representing the Junior Division of the University League, models fashion for the 'smart clubwomen.' The proceeds of the style shows we...
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Empty Stocking Club

Date: 11 27 1956
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...
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Empty Stocking Club

Date: 11 26 1956
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...
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United Givers' Fund Red Feather Services

Date: 10 15 1957
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...
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United Givers' Fund Red Feather Services

Date: 10 15 1957
Description: Miss Lillian Nitcher using the telephone. She is the associate executive secretary of the Community Welfare Council, and executive secretary of the Madison...
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Empty Stocking Club

Date: 11 17 1957
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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Obey and Audrey Hepburn

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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...
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Personality in the News

Date: 09 07 1959
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...
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Clerk Union Aids Needy

Date: 12 16 1965
Description: Peter Voeller, secretary treasurer of the Retail Clerks Local 1401, left, and Jack Bretl, labor representative on the United Community Chest are displaying...
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One of Madison's Prominent Ladies

Date: 05 07 1957
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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