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Easter Seals Beneficiaries

Date: 03 15 1954
Description: Dean Fiedler sits in a wheel chair while working at a loom. Fiedler wove rag rugs at the Homecrafters' Training Center at the Vocational School. The rugs w...
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Disabled American Veterans Officer Installation

Date: 04 04 1954
Description: Three Madison men, all past commanders of the post (Togstad-Glenn Chapter 2), get together for the first time in 10 years at the installation. They are Mar...
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Zonta International

Date: 05 25 1954
Description: Officers of Zonta International of Madison, a professional women's service organization, present a contribution to Hear, Inc., a new organization for heari...
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Wisconsin Diagnostic Center

Date: 09 01 1954
Description: Dr. Robert O'Connor, staff member at the Wisconsin Diagnostic Center at 1552 University Avenue, introduces a young patient to a toy "punching bag" figure, ...
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Wilbur La Bounty, Paralyzed Homecrafter Making Bird Houses

Date: 03 15 1955
Description: He is Wilbur La Bounty, paralyzed homecrafter, making bird houses. He is sitting before a work table with a jig saw and his completed 12 log cabin-style bi...
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Easter Seal Boy

Date: 03 14 1955
Description: The family of David Lindl, the 1956 "Easter Seal Boy", eating breakfast. They include, from left: father Frank C. Lindl; Dennis, age 17 months; mother Marg...
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Madison Vocational and Adult Education School

Date: 01 22 1957
Description: Miss Pauline Zeller of 5304 Groveland Terrace, a physically handicapped polio victim, attends the Vocational School under the sponsorship of the State Reha...
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Dane County Homecrafters

Date: 01 24 1957
Description: Women assist with arrangements for the spring fair presented by the Dane County Homecrafters (adult handicapped persons). Seated left to right: Mina Dutton...
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Roland and Winnie Delamater Family

Date: 03 11 1957
Description: Roland and Winnie Delameter sitting in their living room while reading to their children, Sandra, age 6 years, left, and Ronalee, age 4 & 1/2 years. Roland...
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Roland and Winnie Delamater Family

Date: 03 11 1957
Description: Portrait of the children of Roland and Winnie Delameter; Sandra, age 6 years, left, and Ronalee, age 4 1/2 years. Although stricken with polio two years ag...
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Roland and Winnie Delamater Family

Date: 03 11 1957
Description: Roland Delameter cleans a blackboard in a Bascom Hall classroom during his job as a maintenance man at the University of Wisconsin. Roland and his wife, Wi...
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Roland and Winnie Delamater Family

Date: 03 11 1957
Description: Roland and Winnie Delamater, who were both seriously physically handicapped by cerebral palsy since birth, hanging up the wash in their basement. The coupl...
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Roland and Winnie Delamater Family

Date: 03 11 1957
Description: Roland and his daughter, Ronalee, age 4 1/2 years, work on a jigsaw puzzle. Roland and his wife Winnie, who were both seriously physically handicapped by c...
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Roland and Winnie Delamater Family

Date: 03 11 1957
Description: Winnie Delamater and her daughter Sandra, age 6, use carpet sweepers to clean in their home. Winnie and her husband Roland were both seriously physically h...
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Roland and Winnie Delamater Family

Date: 03 11 1957
Description: Winnie Delamater holds Jay Punwar, 15 months, for whom she is providing child care. A pet dog is sitting next to them. Winnie and her husband Roland were b...
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Four Lakes Secretaries Association Scholarship

Date: 03 22 1957
Description: Members of the Four Lakes Secretaries Association present a check for $100 to Mary Mills, a victim of polio, seated in a wheelchair. The money will help de...
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Sale of Christmas Seals Help Tuberculosis Patients

Date: 11 12 1957
Description: Physical therapist Robert Straelczyk gives a diathermy treatment for spinal arthritis to Swen Auestad, at Lake View Sanatorium, where Mr. Auestad is also a...
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Sale of Christmas Seals Help Tuberculosis Patients

Date: 11 12 1957
Description: Virgil Chadwick from Cuba City sits at his typewriter at Lake View Sanatorium where he is a tuberculosis patient. Mr. Chadwick is taking a writing course t...
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Mothers' March on Polio

Date: 01 25 1958
Description: Because Chester Hartel, husband of the Wisconsin state president of Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority is a polio victim, the three chapters of the sorority in M...
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Dane County Medical Society Women's Auxiliary

Date: 10 11 1957
Description: Three women attend an event to display Dane County Medical Society Women's Auxiliary projects. They are, from left, Mrs. A.P. Schoenenberger, auxiliary pre...

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