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Crippled Children Fire Drill

Date: 11 28 1932
Description: Crippled children in a fire drill at Longfellow School, 1002 Chandler Street. Greenbush Neighborhood. "They emerge in two orderly files, one for the most a...
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Heart Kitchen

Date: 09 17 1952
Description: Pauline Rehder working in the Heart Kitchen at Madison Vocational and Adult School. The Heart Kitchen, for women with heart disease, allows the cook to wo...
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Girl Scouts Training at Washington Orthopedic School

Date: 03 22 1944
Description: Dane County Unit of the Association for the Disabled training members of Girl Scout Troop No. 6 at the Washington Orthopedic School for Crippled Children, ...
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Washington School Orthopedic Department

Date: 03 31 1949
Description: Mrs. Georgia Phillips leads boys of the primary classes in group singing at the orthopedic department at Washington School, 545 West Dayton Street.
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Washington School Orthopedic Department

Date: 03 31 1949
Description: Taking motherly care of their dolls in the orthopedic department at Washington School are, left to right: Jeanne Laugen, Virginia Czerpinski, and Marian Mc...
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Washington School Orthopedic Department

Date: 03 31 1949
Description: Jimmy Fladen, Christine Mercer, and Paul Vincent manipulate Punch and Judy marionettes in the orthopedic department at Washington School, 545 West Dayton S...
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Washington School Orthopedic Department

Date: 03 31 1949
Description: Three girl scouts active in the Library Service Club help out in the orthopedic department at Washington School, 545 West Dayton Street.
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Washington School Orthopedic Department

Date: 03 31 1949
Description: Three older students work on the student newspaper in the orthopedic department at Washington School, 545 West Dayton Street. One of the students is a boy ...
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Washington School Orthopedic Department

Date: 03 31 1949
Description: Richard Johns of Janesville puts the finishing touches on a painting while seated in a wheelchair at the orthopedic department at Washington School, 545 We...
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Wisconsin Homecraft Program

Date: 03 31 1949
Description: Gilbert Ripp of Waunakee works at a loom at the Wisconsin Homecraft Program, a part of the rehabilitation division of the State Board of Vocational and Adu...
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Dane County Association of Health Councils

Date: 10 19 1950
Description: White House conference panelists post for a portrait at the Dane County Association of Health Councils meeting. They are, from left: Morris Hursh, executi...
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Washington Orthopedic School Girl Scouts

Date: 03 07 1952
Description: Erna Schweppe showing members of her Troop No. 6 at Washington Orthopedic school a proclamation by Governor Walter Kohler recognizing the 40th anniversary ...
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"Heart Kitchen" for the Cardiac Patient

Date: 09 17 1952
Description: The "heart kitchen," a new kitchen designed to show women with heart trouble how to cut their work in half, recently constructed in the Madison Vocational ...
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Efficient Dishwashing

Date: 01 21 1953
Description: Mrs. Harry Segerstrom, Cuba City, sitting while washing dishes at a sink, demonstrating efficient dish washing methods for people with limited physical abi...
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New Teachers

Date: 09 22 1953
Description: Two new teachers for the deaf, Eleanore Kerski and Margerate Doering, work with two pupils, Joy Anne Rasmus and Sandra Ritter. They are looking into a larg...
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Easter Seals Beneficiaries

Date: 03 15 1954
Description: Terry Snowden stands with crutches and looks on as Marjorie Parish, seated and wearing a leg brace with a crutch at her side, examines a pamphlet. They are...
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Madison Vocational and Adult Education School

Date: 01 22 1957
Description: Miss Pauline Zeller of 5304 Groveland Terrace, a physically handicapped polio victim, attends the Vocational School under the sponsorship of the State Reha...
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Wisconsin Neurological Foundation Patient

Date: 05 05 1958
Description: Jackson Talmadge Durham, known as Jackie, admires his birthday presents along with his fellow students Mary Puccio, Charmaine Lohr, Louise Richardt and Nor...
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Shorewood Carnival Helps Roundy's Fund

Date: 08 04 1957
Description: Eight Shorewood School first graders pose with their teacher and with Joseph (Roundy) Coughlin. "Roundy's Fun Fund" collected donated money to benefit hand...
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Neurological Hospital Observes Anniversary

Date: 11 01 1960
Description: A scene at the Wisconsin Neurological Foundation, 1954 East Washington Avenue, which is observing it's 10th anniversary. Multiple sclerosis patient Lorett...

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