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Wheel Chair Lift

Date: 2013
Description: Crystal (Courtney) is assisted by a lift for her wheelchair into a van at Becker Plaza. The lift operator is wearing a Green Bay Packers sweatshirt. Buildi...
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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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Give 'till It Helps...Yes, Someone Cares

Date: 10 1961
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...
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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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Give 'till It Helps...Yes, Someone Cares

Date: 10 1961
Description: The Speech and Hearing Rehabilitation Center on the University of Wisconsin Campus is one of 29 United Givers agencies. It serves about 500 people each yea...
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Nursing Home Patients Find Dignity in Self-Help

Date: 09 14 1965
Description: Jim McCredie, resident of Colonial Manor Nursing Home, and also manager of the small store for residents, is shown helping a customer, Josephine Spoerl.
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Nursing Home Patients Find Dignity in Self-Help

Date: 09 14 1965
Description: Ella Rodefer is shown in her wheelchair at a table with others during their twice weekly coffee hour and social at the Colonial Manor Nursing Home.
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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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Mother and Daughter in the Arboretum

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Description: A mother and her daughter spend a day reading and relaxing in the U.W. Arboretum Longenecker Horticultural Gardens under a flowering tree.
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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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Meinhardt Raabe as Little Oscar at Easter Seals Camp Wawbeek

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Description: Meinhardt Raabe as Little Oscar standing with a group of children, some in wheelchairs, at Easter Seals Camp Wawbeek. The Wienermobile is in the background...
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The Disabled Man Can Win

Date: 1918
Description: A man in a military uniform is covering his mouth with one hand and holding a crutch with the other. Poster text reads: "The disabled man can win. Your loc...
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Still the Greatest Mother in the World

Date: 1916
Description: Poster depicting four people. The woman is monumental, with a billowing dress and a Red Cross hat. She is holding a boy with a crutch in her left arm. Her ...
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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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Polio Kickoff Banquet

Date: 12 09 1953
Description: A.E. Whitford, W.K. Mansfield, Ted M. Meloy, and Carl Regenberg (left to right) discuss plans for the drive to raise $75,000 for the Dane County chapter of...
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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: A nurse standing next to a patient who is exercising at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic.
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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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Roundy at David Dumphy Home Carnival

Date: 08 1955
Description: Roundy (Joseph Coughlin) posing with six boys who hosted a backyard carnival to raise $7 for "Roundy's Fun Fund" benefiting children with physical disabili...
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Blind Bowlers

Date: 01 1955
Description: Two Lions Club members assisting visually impaired bowlers, who gather weekly on Tuesdays at Playdium Alleys located at 112 North Fairchild Street. None of...
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Joseph L. Julius

Date: 07 15 1962
Description: A man holding a cane is sitting on a felled tree near the stump. Caption reads: "A huge willow tree is among the trees that have been cut down to make way ...

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