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Packinghouse Workers Strike Kitchen

Date: 03 22 1948
Description: Strike kitchen of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers of America (Plankinton Packing Company). Left to right: Al Herold (chef), Ernie Bernie, Jimmy Glov...
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Milwaukee Road Service Club Party

Date: 12 02 1945
Description: Milwaukee Road Service Club family party at E.R.A. Hall, with seven male officers in line being served food by three women, with a small boy looking on.
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Bartender Fritz Genske

Date: 12 04 1933
Description: Bartender Fritz Genske, "the dean of Madison bartenders," shaking a cocktail shaker at the Elks Club, 120-124 Monona Avenue. (Now known as M.L. King Jr. Bo...
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Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Club on Train

Date: 1896
Description: Members of the University of Wisconsin Glee, Banjo and Mandolin Club posing at the rear of a train during the Spring Tour of 1896. Railroad employees and o...
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National Home Demonstration Week

Date: 04 12 1949
Description: Young homemakers, Caroline Reierson, 615 Dennett Drive, and Arveda Kuhlmey, 713 Dennett Drive, experiment with a new culinary process for cooking meat. The...
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Community Chest (Red Feather) Campaign

Date: 10 17 1949
Description: Three Community Chest fund solicitors observe Helen Guelzow of the Madison Visiting Nurse Service as she weighs 3-month-old Mary Ellen Liddicoat at the Tru...
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University League and Junior Division Activities

Date: 01 23 1951
Description: Four members of the University League make aprons for the homecrafters to wear while they do their craft work for the state rehabilitation center at Truax ...
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University League and Its Junior Division Activities

Date: 01 23 1951
Description: Two instructors at the Truax Field homecrafters' center and two members of the University League are pictured admiring some baked enamelware made by one of...
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1951-52 United Givers' Fund Drive

Date: 10 16 1951
Description: Mrs. J.H. (Mildred) Stumpf, United Giver's ward solicitor, at left, is shown calling on Adeline Johnson and her son, Stephan, age six, at 509 Elmside Boule...
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Pi Beta Phi Sorority Benefit Tea

Date: 11 05 1951
Description: Mrs. Mary Conley and her daughter, Barbara, wear hand-loomed mother and daughter aprons which will be on sale at the annual benefit tea held by the Pi Beta...
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Attic Angels Site Clean-up Party

Date: 07 12 1952
Description: Attic Angel members (plus a few husbands and children) took part in a clean-up party at the former Louis M. Hobbins house at 102 East Gorham Street that th...
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Salvation Army Bell Ringer

Date: 2009
Description: A female Salvation Army bell ringer posing outside Shopko. Apron reads: "need knows no season - I am a bell ringer."
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Tuberculosis Association Christmas Seals

Date: 11 09 1953
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...
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Tuberculosis Association Christmas Seals

Date: 11 09 1953
Description: Gretchen Holt writes a check for Christmas seals she received in the mail.
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Red Cross Blood Recipient

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: Portrait of Knut Torgrimsen, lathe operator at Ohio Chemical & Surgical Equipment Company and a surviving recipient of 30 pints of blood from the Red Cross...
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University of Wisconsin Red Cross Fundraising Drive

Date: 03 12 1956
Description: University of Wisconsin Ph.D. student Peter E. Graf of Syracuse, New York does a laboratory experiment. He is a member of the Red Cross "Two Gallon Blood D...
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Lincoln Day Dinner

Date: 01 29 1957
Description: Don Isabella, one of five volunteer chefs for the annual Lincoln Day celebration planned by the Dane County Republican club. Shown with him, left to right:...
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Neighborhood House: Boys in Meal Line at Camp

Date: 1929
Description: Group of boys standing in line, holding empty plates to be filled by a cook, wearing a chef's hat, who is standing behind a half-door with a pan in one han...
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Opus Dei Fun-O-Rama

Date: 01 31 1958
Description: Mary Farley is shown with a collection of some of the hand-made aprons which will be on sale at the Fun-O-Rama, a philanthropic event sponsored by the Coop...
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Dedication of Masonic Temple

Date: 08 24 1922
Description: Rooftop view of a parade passing through downtown Viroqua. A boy is sitting on a roof on the left, looking down towards the street at the marching bands an...

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