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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...
Photograph

Charley Londek and Visitors

Date: 1915
Description: Studio portrait of Charley Londek and visitors in front of a painted backdrop. Mr. Londek formerly worked at International Harvester's Deering Works and is...
Postcard

Making a Toast

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Description: Group of men in a tavern making a toast. The bartender is behind the bar and the man at the right is in a wheelchair and smoking a pipe.
Photograph

Bashford Methodist Church Party

Date: 12 15 1948
Description: Santa Claus distributing gifts to five youth in wheelchairs at a party at Bashford Methodist Church at 11 N. 7th Street.
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Wallestad-Stolle Wedding

Date: 01 15 1949
Description: The Wallestad-Stolle wedding party, left to right: Fred Woolsey, best man; Phillip Weston Wallestad, groom; Ursula Stolle, bride; and Mrs. John Wallestad, ...
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40 et 8 Presents $600 to Child Charities

Date: 02 26 1952
Description: Representatives of four child welfare organizations receive annual fund presentations from the officers of Dane County Voiture 683 of the 40 et 8 at Legion...
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Washington Orthopedic School Girl Scouts

Date: 03 07 1952
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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St. John's Hospital

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Description: Interior of the largest ward in St. John's Hospital, started in 1952. Nurses and doctors are standing by patients. One of the patients is sitting next to a...
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 06 1953
Description: Nellie A. Brown, night supervisor of nurses, represents a modern nurse as she is pushing a patient in a wheelchair. Posing as the patient is Geneva F. McKa...
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Dane County Medical Society Auxiliary

Date: 03 06 1956
Description: Members of the Dane County Medical Society Auxiliary maintain a loan closet which contains medical equipment which can be borrowed by families. Pictured ar...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 359-369

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Description: Everybody was wonderful

Stars kept rising, pink and gold
Trailing threads of breathless music
barely out of reach
Hand to hand around the n...
Photograph

King and Queen

Date: 04 1957
Description: Costumed figures placing crowns on the heads of two children in wheelchairs, probably as king and queen at an institutional party.
Photograph

Wisconsin Easter Seal Society Awards

Date: 10 20 1960
Description: Group portrait of four award winners at the annual meeting of the Wisconsin Easter Seal Society. In back are: Mrs. Frank Rehauer of Two Rivers and Ralph El...
Photograph

St. Patrick's Day Costume

Date: 03 2014
Description: Michael Pierce Murphy in his giant leprauchan hat and decorated scooter wheelchair at Becker Plaza.
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Visiting in a Hospital

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Description: Two women in a hospital corridor. The woman on the left is sitting in a wheelchair reading a book, with one of her feet in a "boot." She is wearing a hospi...
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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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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: A nurse standing next to a patient who is exercising at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic.
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Dane County American Legion Forty-and-Eight Banquet

Date: 03 28 1954
Description: At the Annual Dane County American Legion 40-and-8 banquet, they collected money for local charities. In the photograph R.C. Golden hands a check to Clyde ...

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