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Heart Kitchen

Date: 09 17 1952
Description: Pauline Rehder working in the Heart Kitchen at Madison Vocational and Adult School. The Heart Kitchen, for women with heart disease, allows the cook to wo...
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Man in a Wheelchair

Date: 12 18 1956
Description: Robert Jensen typing while sitting in a wheelchair. He was paralyzed by spinal polio after serving in the United States Army in Korea.
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Jeanne De Barr with Seeing Eye Dog

Date: 02 02 1944
Description: Jeanne De Barr with her seeing eye dog, Nellie.
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Chuck Seals, Artist and Craftsman

Date: 03 22 1944
Description: Charles B. (Chuck) Seals, with pipe, a 25 year-old handicapped shut-in, who is a painter, a sculptor, a student and omnivorous reader, a fisherman, a swimm...
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Girl Scouts Training at Washington Orthopedic School

Date: 03 22 1944
Description: Dane County Unit of the Association for the Disabled training members of Girl Scout Troop No. 6 at the Washington Orthopedic School for Crippled Children, ...
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Artist Alex Hardie

Date: 03 14 1945
Description: Alex Hardie painting a watercolor with the brush held between his teeth. Alex lost portions of both arms in a railroad accident in 1900.
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Court House Concession

Date: 04 22 1948
Description: Lloyd Harmon, from Belleville, who has been blind from birth, standing at the first concession stand to be erected in the Dane County Court House. The disp...
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Bashford Methodist Church Party

Date: 12 15 1948
Description: Santa Claus distributing gifts to five youth in wheelchairs at a party at Bashford Methodist Church at 11 N. 7th Street.
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Elks Club Party

Date: 12 31 1948
Description: Men and women seated around a banquet dinner table. Several people are sitting in wheelchairs, and there are crutches leaning against the wall. A group of ...
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Washington School Orthopedic Department

Date: 03 31 1949
Description: Mrs. Georgia Phillips leads boys of the primary classes in group singing at the orthopedic department at Washington School, 545 West Dayton Street.
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Washington School Orthopedic Department

Date: 03 31 1949
Description: Jimmy Fladen, Christine Mercer, and Paul Vincent manipulate Punch and Judy marionettes in the orthopedic department at Washington School, 545 West Dayton S...
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Washington School Orthopedic Department

Date: 03 31 1949
Description: Richard Johns of Janesville puts the finishing touches on a painting while seated in a wheelchair at the orthopedic department at Washington School, 545 We...
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Wisconsin Homecraft Program

Date: 03 31 1949
Description: Gilbert Ripp of Waunakee works at a loom at the Wisconsin Homecraft Program, a part of the rehabilitation division of the State Board of Vocational and Adu...
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Purple Heart Week Opening Ceremony

Date: 08 03 1949
Description: Governor Rennebohm purchases the first viola from Walter Nettum, Stoughton, a member of the Iron Brigade Chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart....
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Camp Wawbeek Hospital Drive

Date: 11 09 1949
Description: Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce auxiliary (Jaycettes) members Mrs. Marvin (Lucille) Bump and Mrs. Robert (Merrilyn) Wegner posing for a photograph with ...
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W. Jerome & Dora Higgins

Date: 11 27 1949
Description: W. Jerome & Dora Higgins celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary with a cake in their home at 316 Grand Avenue. Jerry Higgins is blind and runs the newsst...
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Madison Skating Club's Junior Club

Date: 01 17 1950
Description: Skating hand in hand to a waltz tune are, from left to right, Lorraine Bokina, Hugh Bell, Fritz Balsley, and Gary Rieman. Also standing on the far right is...
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Blind Hitchhiker

Date: 05 16 1950
Description: Leslie Zacharias, a blind hitchhiker, is shown standing with his thumb out. A University of Wisconsin junior, he has hitchhiked an estimated 8,000 miles in...
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Polio Victims

Date: 08 02 1951
Description: Bonnie Wainscott (left), age 16, and her mother Mrs. Grace Wainscott are greeted by Francis M. Higgins, President of Wisconsin Central Airlines. The Wainsc...
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Washington Orthopedic School Girl Scouts

Date: 03 07 1952
Description: Erna Schweppe showing members of her Troop No. 6 at Washington Orthopedic school a proclamation by Governor Walter Kohler recognizing the 40th anniversary ...

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