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| Date: | 04 17 1957 |
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| Description: | A Girl Scout crocheting doilies at a senior citizens' care center with her "adoptive grandmother." |
| Date: | 04 17 1957 |
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| Description: | An elderly woman, Josephine Fell, is the "adopted grandmother" to a Girl Scout that visits her and works with her on a puzzle at Rosemary's Nursing Home in... |
| Date: | 10 17 1968 |
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| Description: | An elderly man and woman make new cane seats for chairs at the Cedar Lake Home for the Aged. |
| Date: | 02 22 1950 |
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| Description: | Three rows of beds on the third floor of the Dane County Home For The Aged. The room had only one exit leading to a wooden porch and a wooden fire escape. ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Dining room table illuminated by sunlight from a nearby window, located at the Winnebago County Asylum. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Dining hall at the Winnebago County Asylum. There are many chairs at tables set with tableware. Two large windows and a doorway are on the far wall, and li... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Dining hall at the Winnebago County Asylum. In the foreground are spindle chairs pushed up against long tables set with tableware. Light fixtures are hangi... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A man wearing an apron stands in a large kitchen located at the Winnebago County Asylum. Above him are pots and pans hanging from the ceiling. There is a l... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a room, perhaps a lounge or common room, in the Winnebago County Asylum. There is a long window seat along the bay windows in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the laundry room at the Winnebago County Asylum. Pictured are the staff, including a young boy. Some of the women are ironing articles of ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Dining hall at the Winnebago County Asylum. Spindle chairs are pushed up against long tables set with dishes. In the background are potted plants in front ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Power supply room at the Winnebago County Asylum. In the foreground are what appear to be generators and other related machinery, and on the far wall are s... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Staff members and one child posing among wheeled carts in the laundry facilities at the Winnebago County Asylum. In the background are two large laundry ma... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Portrait of E.E. Manuel, Superintendent of the Winnebago County Asylum sitting at his desk with a ledger in front of him. In the background is a typewriter... |
| Date: | 09 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Howard Herschleder, president of Dane County Mental Health Association, presenting a check for the Dane County home at Verona. Receiving the check are Fran... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Miss Lydia Henie, 76 years old, playing the piano in the devotional room of the Home for Aged Lutherans, 7500 West North Avenue. |
| Date: | 12 20 1963 |
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| Description: | Four residents of the Barron County Nursing Home in Cumberland are making crafts around a table. A caption on the photograph reads: "This group in occupati... |
| Date: | 03 13 1989 |
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| Description: | A smiling man is petting a dog held by a woman. Caption reads: "Art Borowiak patted Buttons, a toy poodle owned by Ann Turney." |
| Date: | 03 29 1962 |
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| Description: | Three women with leis around their necks. Caption reads: "It was Hawaiian night Wednesday for patients at the Sky-View nursing home, 901 S. 3rd St. Mrs. Ca... |
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| Description: | Cook County Housing Authority Elderly Housing, Keck and Keck project #795. Project date 1969. This is a photograph of the living room and kitchen in the ho... |
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