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Senior Bus

Date: 01 1979
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...
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Happy Birthday Medicare

Date: 07 29 1995
Description: At a celebration for the 30th anniversary of Medicare, Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey and guests blow out the candles on a cake.
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Delivering Meals on Wheels

Date: 09 1995
Description: Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin, a strong supporter of seniors, helps to deliver meals on wheels to a home-bound resident of his district.
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First Governor's Conference on Aging Population

Date: 05 26 1956
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...
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First Governor's Conference on an Aging Population

Date: 05 28 1956
Description: Health is a major area being explored at the First Governor's Conference on an Aging Population. Dr. George Stebbins checks the blood pressure of Florence...
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First Governor's Conference on Aging Population

Date: 05 28 1956
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...
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First Governor's Conference on Aging Population

Date: 05 28 1956
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 ...
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First Governor's Conference on Aging Population

Date: 05 28 1956
Description: Employment of older adults is one of the topics of discussion at the First Governor's Conference on an Aging Population. 76 year old James Jordan works on ...
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First Governor's Conference on Aging Population

Date: 05 28 1956
Description: Recreation for older adults is one of the topics at the First Governor's Conference on an Aging Population. Gus Torgeson, guitarist; Henry Breneman, violin...
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Altrusa Club Spring Garden Festival

Date: 05 01 1957
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...
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Altrusa Club Spring Garden Festival

Date: 05 01 1957
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 ...
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Green Thumb Site

Date: 01 1979
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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Group at Fond du Lac Lutheran Home

Date: 04 1997
Description: Kay Widmer-Hren and her daughter Carly entertain Mrs. Edna Knueppel, age 95, at the Fond du Lac Lutheran Home.
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Karly Hren and Edna Knueppel

Date: 04 1997
Description: Carly Hren pushes Edna Knueppal at the Lutheran Home.
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Jonathan Bowman Home for Women

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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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Wilbur J. Cohen at the Signing of the Older Americans Act

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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 ...
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Card Party

Date: 1967
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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Portrait of Nelson Cruickshank

Date: 11 05 1969
Description: Formal portrait of Nelson Cruickshank. In 1969, he became President of the AFL-CIO National Council of Senior Citizens, which began as a coalition Nelson C...
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Give 'till It Helps...Yes, Someone Cares

Date: 10 1961
Description: Atwood Community Center is one of Madison's three Neighborhood Centers which receives support from the United Givers. Here one of the participants is playi...
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Chicago Housing Authority Franklin Drake

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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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