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Mr. Bellam and George O'Connell

Date: 10 14 1931
Description: Mr. Bellam and George O'Connell discuss the "Forget-Me-Not" campaign for Disabled American Veterans.
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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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Brian Willson Gives the Peace Sign

Date: 1988
Description: Brian Willson, Vietnam veteran who lost both legs during a demonstration in 1987, holds up his arm to give the peace sign to audience at a New York peace c...
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United States General Hospital

Date: 1920
Description: View of blind men learning carpentry skills at the United States General Hospital No. 7, as designated by the surgeon-general in 1918. Intended for returni...
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Recruiting Polio Emergency Volunteers

Date: 06 18 1953
Description: Jean Welsch uses the telephone to recruit volunteers for the Polio Emergency Volunteer training course. At her side is her son Bobby, age 3 1/2 years, who ...
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Employees with Disabilities

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: Mary Ann O'Loughlen sits at her desk in the State Office building where she is employed as a typist by the Traveling Library Department, Free Library Commi...
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Employees with Disabilities

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: Portrait of Donald Fornasiere sitting at his drafting table in the special tools engineering department at Gisholt Machine Company. Mr. Fornasiere is part ...
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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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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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Learning Braille

Date: 03 1990
Description: Theresa Lions Club present Joey Bernhard, who is blind, a device to learn braille.
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Gifts For Neurological Patients

Date: 09 29 1960
Description: Pauline Dubner, a patient at the Wisconsin Neurological Foundation, poses in her hospital bed next to a new record player in a case. Behind her stand the f...
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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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Musicians on Corner of State Street

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Description: A group of musicians gathered on the corner of State and W. Johnson Streets.
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Home Bound Gentleman Using a Typewriter

Date: 12 06 1954
Description: A bed-ridden man working from home. Laying in a hospital bed set up in his living room, he is using a typewriter that that is sitting on a table between a ...

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