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| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Simon Overby at home in their parlor with books, family portraits, and an organ with sheet music. Mr. Overby sits in a chair with a cane and a... |
| Date: | 09 20 1934 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Female students practice painting and drawing in an art class session at the State School for the Deaf as a teacher assists in the background. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of group of female students posing with Indian clubs in a gymnasium at the State School for the Deaf. |
| Date: | 03 22 1944 |
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| 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, ... |
| Date: | 12 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Santa Claus distributing gifts to five youth in wheelchairs at a party at Bashford Methodist Church at 11 N. 7th Street. |
| Date: | 11 27 1949 |
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| 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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| Description: | A mother arriving at the Health Center with her special needs children. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Interior of the United States General Hospital No. 7, as designated by the surgeon-general in 1918. Intended for returning soldiers' physical reconstructio... |
| Date: | 03 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Terry Snowden stands with crutches and looks on as Marjorie Parish, seated and wearing a leg brace with a crutch at her side, examines a pamphlet. They are... |
| Date: | 01 24 1957 |
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| 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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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait of an elderly woman and a crossed left eye. She is wearing a lace collar with a pin at the neck. |
| Date: | 03 11 1957 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 25 1958 |
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| 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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| Description: | On left: Woman posed sitting in a chair and holding a cane in the yard of a house, probably Mrs. Hassel Phillips. On right: Studio portrait of two young gi... |
| Date: | 10 1961 |
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| Description: | The Dane County Guidance Center is one of 29 United Givers agencies. A team of psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers serves Madison and Dane Coun... |
| Date: | 02 02 1954 |
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| Description: | A nurse standing next to a patient who is exercising at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic. |
| Date: | 08 1913 |
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| Description: | The family is posing on the screen porch at Island Lodge. Eleanor Holt, wearing a leg brace, is sitting on the fringed hammock with her maternal grandfathe... |
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