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| Date: | 09 20 1934 |
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| Description: | Howard Miner, disabled World War I veteran, receiving Forget-me-not flower from Florence Palz, ladies auxiliary chairman, marking the opening of the forget... |
| Date: | 12 18 1956 |
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| Description: | Robert Jensen typing while sitting in a wheelchair. He was paralyzed by spinal polio after serving in the United States Army in Korea. |
| Date: | 12 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Santa Claus distributing gifts to five youth in wheelchairs at a party at Bashford Methodist Church at 11 N. 7th Street. |
| Date: | 12 31 1948 |
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| Description: | Men and women seated around a banquet dinner table. Several people are sitting in wheelchairs, and there are crutches leaning against the wall. A group of ... |
| Date: | 03 31 1949 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 07 1952 |
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| 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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| Description: | A view down a hallway at the Dane County Hospital and Home, with the silhouette of a man in a wheelchair at the end. |
| Date: | 03 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Dean Fiedler sits in a wheel chair while working at a loom. Fiedler wove rag rugs at the Homecrafters' Training Center at the Vocational School. The rugs w... |
| Date: | 03 15 1955 |
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| Description: | He is Wilbur La Bounty, paralyzed homecrafter, making bird houses. He is sitting before a work table with a jig saw and his completed 12 log cabin-style bi... |
| Date: | 03 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Members of the Four Lakes Secretaries Association present a check for $100 to Mary Mills, a victim of polio, seated in a wheelchair. The money will help de... |
| Date: | 04 1998 |
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| Description: | "In ceremonies at Madison, Joe Widmer was named a Wisconsin Master Cheesemaker. His mentor was his uncle, Ralph Widmer." |
| Date: | 01 25 1958 |
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| Description: | Because Chester Hartel, husband of the Wisconsin state president of Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority is a polio victim, the three chapters of the sorority in M... |
| Date: | 09 14 1965 |
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| Description: | Jim McCredie, resident of Colonial Manor Nursing Home, and also manager of the small store for residents, is shown helping a customer, Josephine Spoerl. |
| Date: | 09 14 1965 |
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| Description: | Ella Rodefer is shown in her wheelchair at a table with others during their twice weekly coffee hour and social at the Colonial Manor Nursing Home. |
| Date: | 05 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Robert Jensen, 24 of McFarland, is sitting in a wheelchair after exiting an airplane following a flight from Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he was treated for ... |
| Date: | 11 01 1960 |
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| Description: | A scene at the Wisconsin Neurological Foundation, 1954 East Washington Avenue, which is observing it's 10th anniversary. Multiple sclerosis patient Lorett... |
| Date: | 11 01 1960 |
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| Description: | A scene at the Wisconsin Neurological Foundation, 1954 East Washington Avenue, which is observing it's 10th anniversary. Patient Jim Markl, Watertown, WI, ... |
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