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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. Patient Jim Markl, Watertown, WI, ...
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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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Mike Falconer, Milwaukee Braves Fan

Date: 09 18 1958
Description: Mike Falconer (17), 626 Eugenia Avenue, an avid Milwaukee Braves fan, receives an autographed baseball from the team. Mike, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Falco...
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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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Jaycette Fashion Show

Date: 08 20 1957
Description: The Jaycettes are completing plans for their annual fashion show at the Memorial Union Theater. Mrs. Ben Prochaska is the general chairman of a group of el...
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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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Blind Bowlers

Date: 01 1955
Description: Two Lions Club members assisting visually impaired bowlers, who gather weekly on Tuesdays at Playdium Alleys located at 112 North Fairchild Street. None of...
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Roundy at David Dumphy Home Carnival

Date: 08 1955
Description: Roundy (Joseph Coughlin) posing with six boys who hosted a backyard carnival to raise $7 for "Roundy's Fun Fund" benefiting children with physical disabili...
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Home Bound Gentleman Using a Typewriter

Date: 12 06 1954
Description: A bed-ridden man working from home. Laying in a hospital bed set up in his living room, he is using a typewriter that that is sitting on a table between a ...
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Polio Victim Returns Home After Treatment

Date: 05 22 1957
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 ...
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Musicians on Corner of State Street

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Description: A group of musicians gathered on the corner of State and W. Johnson Streets.
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53 Minute March on Cerebral Palsy

Date: 02 1960
Description: Two women, a child, and the governor promote the "53 Minute March on Cerebral Palsy," the $20,000 United Cerebral Palsy of Dane County campaign.
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Dane County Medical Society Women's Auxiliary

Date: 10 11 1957
Description: Three women attend an event to display Dane County Medical Society Women's Auxiliary projects. They are, from left, Mrs. A.P. Schoenenberger, auxiliary pre...
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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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Dane County Home Resident

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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.
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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: 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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Elks Club Party

Date: 12 31 1948
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 ...
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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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Wisconsin Master Cheesemaker

Date: 04 1998
Description: "In ceremonies at Madison, Joe Widmer was named a Wisconsin Master Cheesemaker. His mentor was his uncle, Ralph Widmer."

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