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Mt. Horeb Swimming Class
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A Red Cross instructor with a children's swimming class at the Bluemounds swimming pool. The instructor is George Steiner, assistant principal at Madison West High School, and director of the Red Cross water safety and water safety program.
August 3, 1945
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Mt. Horeb Swimming Class
August 3, 1945
Mt. Horeb children and adults splashing in the Bluemound pool during a Red Cross swimming class.
Mt. Horeb Swimming Class
August 3, 1945
Children leaving the truck hired by the Red Cross Chapter of Mt. Horeb to drive them to a swimming class at the Bluemounds pool.
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University of Wisconsin Red Cross Fundraising Drive
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Red Cross Activities
March 5, 1951
Red Cross nurse instructor, Dorothy Wylde, at right, teaches proper contents of a home medicine chest to Marjorie Hagan, left, and Dorothy Currere, students in the Red Cross home nursing class.
Red Cross Blood Drive
April 11, 1956
Cherokee Heights School principal Emery Bainbridge stands beside student Robert Kurtenacker and his mother, Elizabeth, who needed blood donations during her fight with polio.
