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| 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: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Dane County Home for the Aged. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Dane County Poorhouse. |
| 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: | 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." |
| 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: | Elevated view of Poor Farm on the grounds of the Winnebago County Asylum. There is a large barn, silo, windmill, and the roof of a large building in the ba... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Winnebago County Asylum building. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Exterior rear view of the Winnebago County Asylum building. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of front of a Winnebago County Asylum building. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a Winnebago County Asylum building. |
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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... |
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