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| Date: | 11 26 1952 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 07 06 1950 |
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| Description: | Rex Karney (left), associate editor of the Wisconsin State Journal (left), presents a check for $10,000 to Dr. W.D. Middleton for cancer research at... |
| Date: | 09 16 1950 |
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| Description: | George H. Johnson (left), Gisholt Machine Company president, and Stanley Prideaux (center), president of the United Steelworkers of America, congratulate F... |
| 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: | 09 16 1950 |
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| Description: | "Roundy" Coughlin sitting on a stoop with some neighborhood children who put on a magic show to collect money for Roundy's Fun Fund for handicapped kids. |
| 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: | 12 05 1951 |
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| Description: | Members of the Business and Professional Women's Club stand beside a display of the many gifts to be donated to various organizations providing care for ch... |
| 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: | 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: | 08 12 1952 |
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| Description: | Roundy Coughlin accepts a dollar from a boy, probably for his Fun 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: | 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: | 03 13 1954 |
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| Description: | Three Delta Gamma sorority members model formal long dresses in preparation for the alumnae group's annual bridge party and style show. From left, they are... |
| Date: | 09 02 1954 |
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| 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... |
| 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 08 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Marguerite Thayer of 222 South Carroll Street, secretary to Wilbur Schmidt, director of the Division of Business Management, Department of Public Welf... |
| 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: | 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: | 02 28 1956 |
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| 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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