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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Group of people posing outside of Soldiers' Orphans Home, located on Spaight Street between Paterson and Brearly Streets. The building was originally const... |
| Date: | 11 10 1905 |
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| Description: | A group of people are in a motorboat, named "Quo Vadis,, in the lake in front of St. Joseph's orphan asylum. Caption reads: "St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, Gr... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The house of Eli G. Runal, now part of the Willowbrook Sanatarium. |
| Date: | 02 22 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior side view of Dane Co. Home For The Aged, showing porches and a dangerous fire escape. The newspaper headline calls the building a "fire trap." |
| Date: | 02 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Metal fire escape at rear of the Dane County Home For The Aged. Newspaper calls building a "fire trap." |
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| Description: | Man posed sitting in a buggy pulled by a single horse in front of a two-story brick building, probably the Jackson County Poor Home. |
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| Description: | Cook County Housing Authority Elderly Housing, Keck and Keck project #795. Project date 1969. This is exterior photograph of the nine story project housing... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "An aerial view of the Skaalen Sunset Home and the New Addition completed Spring 1971, Stoughton, Wisconsin. The Home has 157 nursin... |
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