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Friendly Badger

Date: 12 19 1968
Description: A vocational student holds a badger at The Ranch, a training center for mentally and physically disabled young adults.
Drawing

Institution for the Education of the Blind

Date: 1876
Description: The Institution for the Education of the Blind.
Print

Institution for the Education of the Blind

Date: 1865
Description: The Institution for the Education of the Blind. Caption reads: "Institution for the Education of the Blind, Janesville, Wisc. Free to Blind Children of Wis...
Photograph

Tommy Manning

Date: 02 18 1953
Description: Joan Kain, speech therapist, helps Tommy Manning, age 3, who has cerebral palsy, learn to talk by showing him objects on a display board. It is part of hi...
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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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Tuberculosis Patient

Date: 11 15 1949
Description: Doris Trameri of 568 Park Lane, previously diagnosed with tuberculosis, brushed up on her typing and attended other classes in shorthand and bookkeeping wh...
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Southern Wisconsin Colony

Date: 04 25 1950
Description: Exterior view of one of the buildings at the Southern Wisconsin Colony and Training School for Mentally Retarded Children.
Photograph

Saint Coletta School

Date: 04 26 1950
Description: View of the buildings and grounds of St. Coletta School for Exceptional Children as seen from across a road.
Photograph

United States General Hospital

Date: 1920
Description: Interior of the United States General Hospital No. 7, as designated by the surgeon-general in 1918. Intended for returning soldiers' physical reconstructio...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

Two-Way Speaker Connects School and Home

Date: 02 15 1961
Description: Jerry Novick sits at his kitchen table at home, taking part in his classes at East High School via two-way speaker. This will continue until he recovers fr...
Photograph

Student Has Radical Brain Surgery

Date: 09 23 1964
Description: Mark Newman is shown sitting behind a stack of books as he returns to La Follette High School three weeks after radical surgery for a brain tumor. Behind h...
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Mental Health Fund Raising

Date: 06 02 1965
Description: Susan Butler presenting a check for $760 to Atty. William Chatterton, president of the Dane County Assn. for Mental Health. The gift has been designated fo...

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