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Gisholt Home for the Aged

Date: 1930
Description: The Gisholt Home for the Aged, 3030 City View Drive at Burke Road on Madison's far east side.
Drawing

Harvey Hospital

Date: 1865
Description: Harvey Hospital, or the Soldiers' Orphans Home. The main octagon section was the home of Governor Farwell, and the wing of wood was added in 1862 and used ...
Drawing

Soldier's Orphan's Home

Date: 1876
Description: Originally printed in the Centennial Records of the Women of Wisconsin on page 37. The elevated view illustrates the large houses and the surrounding bustl...
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First Resident of Oakwood Village Lutheran Home

Date: 10 23 1949
Description: The Reverend Otto J. Wilke (left), president of the Oakwood Lutheran Home Association, is shown greeting Mike Anderson, the first resident of the Oakwood L...
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First Staff of Oakwood Village Lutheran Home

Date: 10 23 1949
Description: Three of the first staff members of the Oakwood Lutheran Home on Mineral Point Road stand side by side. Left to right: Mrs. A. Staehling, matron; Mrs. O.D....
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Public Hearing On Proposed Sites for County Home

Date: 01 10 1950
Description: Large crowd that filled the circuit courtroom of the Dane County Court House at a public hearing on proposed sites for the county home for the chronically ...
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Dane County Home for the Aged Christmas Party

Date: 12 16 1951
Description: Residents of the Dane County Home for the Aged in Verona are pictured while receiving gifts and lunch at the Madison Association of Underwriters' annual Ch...
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Beautician Working with Oakwood Resident

Date: 02 24 1953
Description: A resident of the Oakwood Lutheran Nursing Home is given a permanent by an apprentice in the Madison Vocational and Adult School cosmetology program.
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First Governor's Conference on Aging Population

Date: 05 26 1956
Description: Discussing plans for the First Governor's Conference on an Aging Population are Governor Walter Kohler; Minnetta Hastings, chairman of the committee on the...
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First Governor's Conference on Aging Population

Date: 05 28 1956
Description: The First University Methodist Church has a friendly visitor plan where volunteers visit shut-ins of the church regularly. Leisure time activities are one ...
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Christmas Party at Oakwood Lutheran Home

Date: 12 18 1954
Description: Members of the Sherman Avenue Methodist Church junior choir sing Christmas songs for Oakwood Lutheran Home residents. Shown seated at a table are Almira an...
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Christmas Party at Oakwood Lutheran Home

Date: 12 18 1954
Description: Mary Anderson and Ted Cox, members of the Sherman Avenue Methodist Church youth choir, sing Christmas carols at a party for residents of Oakwood Lutheran H...
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Christmas Party at Oakwood Lutheran Home

Date: 12 18 1954
Description: Elizabeth Damres (left), home matron, and Helen Antoine, Mendota Garden Club member, pass out gifts during a Christmas party for residents of the Oakwood L...
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Christmas Party at Oakwood Lutheran Home

Date: 12 18 1954
Description: Vivian Schleck (left), member of the Mendota Garden Club, lights a candle, and Mrs. Alvin Sonnenberg, member of the Little Garden Clubs, serves cookies du...
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"Foster Parents" Meeting

Date: 03 09 1955
Description: Seated at a table during a meeting for 120 Madison and Dane County foster parents are, left to right: Dr. Leland Reeck, director of the County Child Guidan...
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"Foster Parents" Meeting

Date: 03 09 1955
Description: During a meeting for 120 Madison and Dane County foster parents, Evelyn Owens of Sun Prairie, left, pins a name tag on Margaret Olson, a foster mother. The...
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"Foster Parents" Meeting

Date: 03 09 1955
Description: Two couples discuss mutual experiences as foster parents at a meeting for 120 Madison and Dane County foster parents. They include, left to right: Mrs. and...
Postcard

The Commodore

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Description: View across water towards the large building on the shoreline of the lake. Text on reverse reads: "The Commodore on Lake Mendota at 3100 Lake Mendota Drive...
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Careers in Mental Health

Date: 04 26 1959
Description: Mrs. John Mannering, social worker at the Wisconsin Diagnostic center is shown listening to two teen-aged girls recently admitted to the center.

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