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| Date: | 07 30 1899 |
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| Description: | View across pond of Syl at Soldiers Home with aunt Helen standing on a landing near a boat and a flagpole. There is a large group of people gathered around... |
| Date: | 07 30 1898 |
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| Description: | A cannon at Soldiers Home adorned with American flags near a sign reading "Keep off the grass." |
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| Description: | Front view of the addition to the Methodist Episcopal Home for the Aged, founded on May 10, 1883. Pedestrians are crossing the street near an automobile an... |
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| Description: | Elaborate gateway, in the shape of an arch, to the National Soldiers Home, with man and boy standing in entrance. The gateway is made of trees, covered wit... |
| 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: | 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: | 05 28 1956 |
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| Description: | Transportation is often a problem for the older population. The Council of Jewish Women has arranged a transportation group to take older Jewish persons to... |
| 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: | 01 1979 |
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| Description: | Green Thumb was a project sponsored by the National Farmers Union to find jobs for the elderly people who were able to work. During his district tour Congr... |
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| Description: | Exterior view from street of a house in a residential neighborhood. A carport or porte-cochere is on the left of the front porch. Two women stand in the ya... |
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| Description: | Wilbur J. Cohen receiving a pen from President Lyndon Johnson at the White House on the signing of the Older Americans Act. This act was established under ... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Middle-aged woman seated at an outdoor table with refreshments. She is wearing a hat made out of newspaper. The occasion is a card party arranged for older... |
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| Description: | C.H.A.ILL2-45-A. This Chicago Housing Authority project for housing for the elderly is a 157 unit apartment located at Franklin Street and Drake Avenue. Th... |
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| Description: | Cook County Housing Authority Elderly Housing, Keck and Keck project #795. Project date 1969. Exterior photograph taken from the ninth floor porch deck. |
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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: | 10 16 1967 |
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| Description: | View across sidewalk towards a man sitting on a bench outside a storefront with a screen door that has a sign on it for Purity Bread. An American flag is h... |
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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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