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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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Nursery School for Slow Learners

Date: 11 18 1955
Description: Patricia Mathisen (Mrs. George), member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority alumnae group, sponsor of the Nursery School for Slow Learners at the First Congregat...
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Nursery School for Slow Learners

Date: 11 18 1955
Description: Dorcas Nichles (Mrs. Robert J., Jr.), member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority alumnae group who sponsored the Nursery School for Slow Learners at the First Co...
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Nursery School for Slow Learners

Date: 11 18 1955
Description: Virginia Gibson (Mrs. Harley L.) and Jean M. Schilling (Mrs. William H.), members of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority alumnae group which sponsors the Nursery Sc...
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Three Hearing Impaired Children Leave for Camp

Date: 07 30 1955
Description: Three hearing impaired children leaving in a car for "The Retreat," a summer camp near Wautoma, Wisconsin. The trip is sponsored by the Parents Council for...
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Governor Walter Kohler and Polio Victims

Date: 01 07 1953
Description: Governor Walter Kohler sits with 2 1/2 year old Deborah Foster and her mother Ruth Foster, both polio victims. Governor Kohler is proclaiming January as "M...
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Roundy's Fun Fund for Crippled Children

Date: 12 27 1944
Description: Left to right: Rufus Wells, associated with Roundy's Fun Fund; Dr. L.E. Holmgren, president of the Dane County unit of the WAD (Wisconsin Association for t...
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"Roundy" Coughlin with Children

Date: 11 26 1945
Description: Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin shown with a group of children at Washington School as part of his charity fund raising for "Roundy's Fun Fund."
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Shriners Yule Party

Date: 12 18 1947
Description: A Shrine clown pointing out Santa Claus to a young girl at the Madison Shriners yule party at the Washington Orthopedic School, 545 West Dayton Street.
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Shriners Yule Party

Date: 12 18 1947
Description: Floyd Ferrill leads a group of handicapped children in a Christmas carol at the Madison Shriners yule party at the Washington Orthopedic School, 545 West D...
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Shriner Yule Party

Date: 12 18 1947
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm sitting with a young boy at the Madison Shriners yule party at the Washington Orthopedic School, 545 West Dayton Street.
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Shriners Yule Party

Date: 12 18 1947
Description: Fletcher Mills doing a card trick for three children, with a clown looking on, at the Madison Shriners yule party at the Washington Orthopedic School, 545 ...
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March of Dimes Wheelchair Race

Date: 02 09 1948
Description: Members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce south team, who took part in the "Race for Dimes" to raise money for the March of Dimes. Standing left to right: ...
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Race of Dimes

Date: 02 05 1949
Description: Two children in wheelchairs, Jean Bokina, left, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Bokina and right, Steven Butts, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. Freeman Butts, with ...
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March of Dimes Wheelchair Race

Date: 01 28 1950
Description: Four-year-old Paul Rosen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul R. (Agnes) Rosen, 118 Jackson Street, is all smiles at the Junior Chamber of Commerce March of Dimes Whe...
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March of Dimes Wheelchair Race

Date: 01 28 1950
Description: The winner of the March of Dimes Wheelchair race, in a close contest, is five-year-old Danny Maffet, son of Mr. and Mrs. David (Elizabeth) Maffett, 102 Sou...
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Council for Mentally Retarded Children

Date: 09 27 1950
Description: Officers of the Madison unit of the Wisconsin Council for Mentally Retarded Children, seated around a table. Left to right: Mrs. E.K. (Flora) Steul, public...
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Demonstration of Techniques to Help Hearing-Handicapped Children

Date: 02 07 1951
Description: Mrs. Ella Zillner, Madison Public Schools teacher of hearing-impaired children, demonstrates learning techniques she uses with two of her students before a...
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Attic Angel Association Spring Luncheon

Date: 05 23 1951
Description: Mrs. Harley Graf and her hard-of-hearing son, Bobby, have lunch with Mrs. George C. (Dorothy) Guild on the lawn of Mrs. S.L. Odegard's residence on Lake Me...
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Home for Crippled Children

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Description: A view of children, adults, and a tree on the lawn in front of the Home for Crippled Children.

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