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Governor Schmedeman Holding Radio Microphone

Date: 10 30 1934
Description: Governor Albert Schmedeman at home. He is sitting in a wheelchair and holding a radio microphone.
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Howard Miner Receiving Poppy

Date: 09 20 1934
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...
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Longfellow School Disabled Students

Date: 10 30 1931
Description: Disabled students with crutches, wheelchairs and other aids for locomotion holding a club meeting at Longfellow School in the Greenbush neighborhood.
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Orthopedic Hospital Classroom

Date: 09 17 1931
Description: Students seated at desks at Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital for Children, University of Wisconsin, 436 North Randall Street.
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Man in a Wheelchair

Date: 12 18 1956
Description: Robert Jensen typing while sitting in a wheelchair. He was paralyzed by spinal polio after serving in the United States Army in Korea.
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Mrs. Eda Haugsland

Date: 03 22 1945
Description: Mrs. Eda Haugsland, 207 North Pinckney Street, sewing lapel decorations for the Dane County homework shops which employ persons with disabilities.
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George Forrester at Ringling Circus

Date: 1953
Description: Madison Mayor, George Forrester, seated in the front row of the audience at the Ringling Brothers Circus. Clowns entertain the children seated near Forrest...
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Easter Seal Sales Help the Handicapped

Date: 03 10 1952
Description: Matt Esser is learning how to weave under Mrs. Mina Dutton's direction. Mrs. Dutton is one of the instructors at the Wisconsin Homecraft Training center, ...
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Four Women Share a House

Date: 03 21 1955
Description: Pat Farrell, with a broken right leg, polishes silver while confined to the house she shares with three other young women at 2253 Rugby Row.
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Student Nurse Week

Date: 10 07 1957
Description: Methodist hospital student nurses Karolyn McCauley (left) and Mary Bach (right) join in a card game with Robert Lloyd of Janesville and Jack Durham (in a w...
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Mothers' March on Polio

Date: 01 25 1958
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...
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Firemen Treat Handicapped Children to Braves Game

Date: 08 10 1960
Description: Madison firemen from Station No. 3 at 1217 Williamson Street, along with their wives, took 32 handicapped children to the Braves-Los Angeles baseball game ...
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WKOW-TV Telethon

Date: 09 12 1953
Description: Fourteen men and women (one in a wheelchair) sitting around a dining table in a restaurant (Hoffman House?) as part of the WKOW-TV telethon (?).
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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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Christmas Entertainment at Dane County Hospital and Home in Verona

Date: 12 20 1960
Description: Montrose school district students from Dane & Green County entertain residents at the Dane County Hospital and Home in Verona. The children performed a Chr...

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