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Veterans of Foreign Wars - Ladies Auxiliary
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    • Date Created: 1957
    • Description: 1957 photo of a group of VFW Ladies Auxiliary members ready to distribute, presumably, Christmas gift packages to the needy, perhaps specifically to veterans. The trunk of the car is opened and filled with baskets, almost like a modern cornucopia. Location appears to be a suburban residence, very likely the home of one of the women veterans in the picture. Photo #1.
    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


    Veterans of Foreign Wars - Ladies Auxiliary
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      • Date Created: 1957
      • Description: 1957 photo of a group of VFW Ladies Auxiliary members ready to distribute, presumably, Christmas gift packages to the needy, perhaps specifically to veterans. Includes a Coca Cola Santa doll made by the Rushton Company of Atlanta, Georgia. Photo #3.
      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


      Veterans of Foreign Wars - Ladies Auxiliary
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        • Description: Undated photo of a VFW Ladies Auxiliary event, with members standing at attention as they listen to a designated speaker. Burlington had ca. 20 organizations for military veterans in the years following World War II.
        • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


        UVM Sororities - Kappa Alpha Theta
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          • Description: Sisters of Kappa Alpha Theta. (Chapter house at 215 So. Prospect St., Burlington, Vt. The house was built in 1900 for lawyer Charles T. Barney and later owned by the Catholic diocese as a residence for Bishop Joseph J. Rice.) Kappa Alpha Theta was the first sorority to have a chapter at UVM (1881). A similar photo appears in the 1953 Ariel, the UVM student yearbook, on p.133.
          • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


          Vergennes Grammar School
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            • Description: School children from different grades and presumably their teacher line up in front of Vergennes Grammar School. Until 1950, elementary grades were schooled on the lower floors of the high school.
            • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


            Vergennes High School - Basketball
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              • Date Created: 1945
              • Description: 1945 photo of 5 members of the Vergennes High School boys basketball team in the school gymnasium. (Vergennes high school was built in 1871, replaced in 1959 by Vergennes Union high school, and demolished in 1964.)
              • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


              Vergennes High School - Graduates
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                • Description: Vergennes High School graduating class of 1950 with banner, assembled in front of the new elementary school, which opened in 1950. Photo #2.
                • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


                Vergennes High School - Graduates
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                  • Description: Vergennes High School graduating class of 1948 with banner, assembled in front of the Bixby Memorial Library in Vergennes.
                  • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


                  War Bond Campaign
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                    • Date Created: 1944
                    • Description: 1944 poster display in store window, perhaps at a travel agency, touting the effectiveness of War Bonds and promoting further sales. Words and phrases used: "Ravaged," [several European countries] "at peace," "No surrender," and "They can take only our bodies!"
                    • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs


                    War Bond Campaign
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                      • Date Created: 1944
                      • Description: 1944 Three women standing behind what appears to be a War Bonds sales counter (location unknown). Patriotic background has slogans like "Back the Attack!," "Keep 'em fighting," and "For baby's future, Buy War Bonds," a not so subtle appeal to the safety of children. A list of charitable organizations (mostly for women) competing in the purchase of bonds is posted in the upper left corner.
                      • Parent Collections: Louis L. McAllister Photographs