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Community Chest (Red Feather) Campaign
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Charles Brown, student chairman of the Legal Aid Society, a Red Feather agency, describing the work of the society to three Community Chest women workers. From left are Esther Quast, Mrs. Jess (Melvina) Brown, and Mrs. Fred (Ann) Sayles.
October 17, 1949
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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Community Chest (Red Feather) Campaign
October 17, 1949
Major Frank Genge, director of the Salvation Army in Madison, telling three women's division volunteers of the Community Chest about the weekly clothing sales. The women are, (from left): Mrs. Elsi...
Community Chest Workers
October 12, 1946
Four women preparing to conduct the annual Community Chest "Red Feather" campaign. The woman in houndstooth check hat and suit is Mrs. William (Catherine) Reck, 1 East Gilman Street, chairman of Wa...
Community Chest (Red Feather) Campaign
October 17, 1949
Mary Lee Griggs reads to some of her pupils at the Neighborhood House while three women's division volunteers of the Community Chest look on. From left are: Mrs. Joseph (Phyllis) Gervasi, Mrs. Sal ...
Community Chest (Red Feather) Campaign
October 17, 1949
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 Truax Field child health center. From left ar...
Community Chest (Red Feather) Campaign
October 17, 1949
Gertrude Adams (right), chairman of the women's division of the Community Chest campaign, confers with her associate chairman, Mary Lobb, about final plans for the house-to-house solicitation.
Red Feather Drive Thermometer
October 24, 1949
Peter H. Norg, executive director of the Four Lakes Council of Boy Scouts (a Red Feather service of the Madison Community Chest), adds some red paint to the 12-foot feather thermometer located next...
