Throwback Thursday: 85-year-old Union Membership Card
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This antique Union Life Membership Card is in pristine condition and belonged to Dorothy May Galbraith. Dorothy married Marvin Lemkuhl in 1929, the same year her card was issued. Marvin was a desk editor and weekly assistant at The Daily Cardinal campus newspaper.
Photo courtesy of Thomas Pedersen
Dorothy, circa 1924.
Photo courtesy of Thomas Pedersen
Dorothy, circa 1929.
Photo courtesy of Thomas Pedersen
Marvin Lemkuhl, pictured center in the 1928 Badger yearbook, along with other Daily Cardinal editors.
Photo courtesy of University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
