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Children at the State School for the Blind

Date: 1893
Description: Students and adults of the State School for the Blind pose for a group portrait in front of the building.
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Friendly Badger

Date: 12 19 1968
Description: A vocational student holds a badger at The Ranch, a training center for mentally and physically disabled young adults.
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Howard Miner Receiving Poppy

Date: 09 20 1934
Description: Howard Miner, disabled World War I veteran, receiving Forget-me-not flower from Florence Palz, ladies auxiliary chairman, marking the opening of the forget...
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Employees with Disabilities

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: Portrait of Robert Gaines, an employee at Oscar Mayer and company. Mr. Gaines is part of the 'Madison Story' — the account of the opportunities this city o...
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Union Members Group Portrait

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Description: Group portrait in front of a large stone building with arches of members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 880 holding giant pennie...
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Union Members Marching

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Description: Members of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 880 march across a plaza in protest. Some are carrying signs shaped like giant pennies. Disab...
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"Alias, Mike Moran" Scene Still

Date: 1919
Description: Larry Young (played by Wallace Reid in the uniform of a sergeant in the Canadian army) embraces Elaine Debaux (Ann Little in a nurse's cape) in a scene sti...
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Couple Posing in front of House

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Description: View across road towards a man and woman posing standing behind a picket fence in front of a frame house. The man appears to be holding a cane in his left ...
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Blind Man with White Cane

Date: 2013
Description: A blind man with a white cane waits on the corner of 7th & Cass Streets. He is wearing jeans, a denim jacket, blaze orange hat and boots. Snow is piled on ...
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Mental Patients Visit the Zoo

Date: 10 20 1961
Description: Several men and women patients from Mendota State Hospital are watching the bears at the Vilas Park Zoo. A volunteer took them for the outing in her person...
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29th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers

Date: 08 1889
Description: Formal outdoor group portrait of the 29th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers. They are posing while lined up on the front steps of the Milwaukee Armory building...
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Lady with Seeing-Eye Dog

Date: 2013
Description: View from street towards a woman wearing a coat and boots standing at the corner of 7th and Cass Street with her seeing-eye dog. There is a fire hydrant on...
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March of Dimes "Race of Dimes" on the Capitol Square

Date: 01 18 1958
Description: University of Wisconsin football players Dan Lanphear and Bill Hobbs prepare to push two polio victims in wheelchairs around the Capitol Square as part of ...
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National Hearing Month

Date: 05 09 1958
Description: Governor Vernon Thompson signs an official proclamation declaring May as national hearing month. Sitting on his knee is Jean Monteith, 4, of Richland Cente...

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