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| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A large gathering of men and women stand outside the Odd Fellow's Home. There is a flagpole on the grounds with an American Flag among trees. People are po... |
| Date: | 10 23 1949 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 23 1949 |
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| 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.... |
| Date: | 01 10 1950 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 12 16 1951 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Interior of the infirmary barracks at the National Military Home. Men sit in chairs next to rows of beds on both sides of the room. Construction of the Nat... |
| Date: | 02 24 1953 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 01 1979 |
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| Description: | Congressman David Obey (right) enjoys lunch at a senior center in his northern Wisconsin congressional district. |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | The driver helps a senior citizen board the bus after a lunch at the Medford Senior Center. |
| Date: | 01 1979 |
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| Description: | Lunchtime at a senior center in central Wisconsin. Congressman David R. Obey can be seen talking in the background. Although the location has not been iden... |
| Date: | 01 1979 |
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| Description: | Bus operated by the Portage County Commission on Aging and its driver. The bus took senior citizens to lunch at the Senior Center and provided other servic... |
| Date: | 07 29 1995 |
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| Description: | At a celebration for the 30th anniversary of Medicare, Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey and guests blow out the candles on a cake. |
| Date: | 05 26 1956 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 28 1956 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 05 01 1957 |
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| Description: | A volunteer discussing seed catalogs with two nursing home residents as they are sitting outside on lawn chairs. They are at Monona Drive Rest Home at 4202... |
| Date: | 05 01 1957 |
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| Description: | Altrusa Club member Emma Rice, in a dress and on her knees, planting a flower garden at Agehaven Nursing Home on Bridge Road, as residents Louise Cook and ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View across dirt road of the asylum and grounds. A large three-story building is spread out over several acres. Stairs are leading up to entrances on the s... |
| Date: | 04 1997 |
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| Description: | Kay Widmer-Hren and her daughter Carly entertain Mrs. Edna Knueppel, age 95, at the Fond du Lac Lutheran Home. |
| Date: | 04 1997 |
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| Description: | Carly Hren pushes Edna Knueppal at the Lutheran Home. |
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