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Woman in Wheelchair Bowling

Date: 02 14 1953
Description: Woman sitting in a wheelchair bowling.
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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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West Side Optimist Club Meeting

Date: 09 15 1953
Description: Doctors talking at the West Madison-Middleton Optimist Club luncheon. Left to Right: Dr. Richard Frank (Middleton) Dr. L. Riley McCormick, Dr. John Waddell...
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Polio Kickoff Banquet

Date: 12 09 1953
Description: A.E. Whitford, W.K. Mansfield, Ted M. Meloy, and Carl Regenberg (left to right) discuss plans for the drive to raise $75,000 for the Dane County chapter of...
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 01 07 1954
Description: Red Cross blood drive at the Wisconsin Telephone Company. Nurses are attending to employees, who are volunteering to donate blood.
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Methodist Hospital Service League

Date: 02 04 1954
Description: Members of the Methodist Hospital Service League during their monthly day of service preparing swabs to be used in the hospital. Left to right: Hazel Teasd...
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Methodist Hospital Service League

Date: 02 04 1954
Description: Members of the Methodist Hospital Service League during their monthly day of service sewing linens to be used in the hospital. Standing left to right are: ...
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Methodist Hospital Service League

Date: 02 04 1954
Description: Members of the Methodist Hospital Service League during their monthly day of service preparing items to be used in the hospital. Preparing bandages are Mrs...
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Methodist Hospital Service League

Date: 02 04 1954
Description: Members of the Methodist Hospital Service League during their monthly day of service. Visiting while making swabs are, left to right: Mrs. David Johnson, E...
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Children at U.W. Nursery School

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: Charlie Thronson "tells his troubles" to student teacher, Evelyn Nelson. She is cradling him while he is standing.
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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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Madison Restaurant Association Meeting

Date: 04 28 1954
Description: Chatting after dinner are three family members associated with Tiedeman's drugstore: sitting (left to right) are Margaret Tiedeman and Evelyn Tiedeman; and...
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Madison General Hospital Maternity Ward

Date: 06 25 1954
Description: Bert and Elsie Dahlstrom looking at the beds for infants in one of the four neo-natal units. Becoming new parents, they are expecting a baby in the fall an...
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Madison General Hospital Maternity Ward

Date: 06 25 1954
Description: Nurse Meulbrock working in the hospital's new delivery room.
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Home Bound Gentleman Using a Typewriter

Date: 12 06 1954
Description: A bed-ridden man working from home. Laying in a hospital bed set up in his living room, he is using a typewriter that that is sitting on a table between a ...
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Dentist Opens Office in Madison

Date: 11 1954
Description: Hawaiian resident, Dr. Victor T. Wayland, opens a dental office in the Hauser Building at 1417 University Avenue. A graduate of the Marquette University sc...
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Vilas Zoo Monkeys

Date: 07 06 1955
Description: Monkeys on monkey island at the Vilas Park Zoo. The monkeys are on loan from the University of Wisconsin during the summer and returned in the winter to be...
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West High School Football Physicals

Date: 08 1955
Description: Madison West High School football player, Dave Koepcke (seated), is getting his blood pressure checked by Dr. William Walter, who is using a stethoscope du...
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East High School Football Medical Examinations

Date: 08 25 1955
Description: Dr. Donald Simley examines the teeth and tongue of Jon Rockstad as three other returning lettermen look on. In the back row are John Davidson, John Hill an...
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Central High School Football Weigh-In and Physical Examinations

Date: 08 1955
Description: Coach Harold (Gus) Pollock (left) adjusting the counter weights on the scale being used by Ron Morrick. Other returning veteran players shown are Steve Sch...

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