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| Date: | 03 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Charles B. (Chuck) Seals, with pipe, a 25 year-old handicapped shut-in, who is a painter, a sculptor, a student and omnivorous reader, a fisherman, a swimm... |
| 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: | 03 14 1945 |
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| Description: | Alex Hardie painting a watercolor with the brush held between his teeth. Alex lost portions of both arms in a railroad accident in 1900. |
| Date: | 07 07 1952 |
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| Description: | Cyrus Philipp, Wisconsin Republican Party committeeman (and a Taft supporter) with fellow national convention delegate Harlen Kelley, the blind and handica... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Bill Henshaw, a disabled, wheelchair-bound Vietnam veteran, at a Vietnam Veterans Against the War demonstration during the Nixon Inauguration in 1973. |
| Date: | 04 22 1948 |
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| Description: | Lloyd Harmon, from Belleville, who has been blind from birth, standing at the first concession stand to be erected in the Dane County Court House. The disp... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. Main entrance and east facade. This was the third of seven institutions built throughout the country in the decades... |
| Date: | 1867 |
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| Description: | E.T. Mix designed the original building of the National Soldiers Home in 1867. At the time the structure was dedicated on 28 September 1867, the wings had ... |
| 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: | 12 31 1948 |
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| Description: | Men and women seated around a banquet dinner table. Several people are sitting in wheelchairs, and there are crutches leaning against the wall. A group of ... |
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| Description: | A man with a bandaged foot sits in a chair holding crutches for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop. He is wearing a suit jacket, hat, and tro... |
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| Description: | A man stands for a portrait in front of a painted backdrop on crutches. He is wearing a long coat over a vest with a watch fob, and holds a hat in his righ... |
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| Description: | A man without arms stands for a portrait in front of a painted backdrop, behind a table that holds a prosthetic arm, a towel and other miscellaneous items. |
| Date: | 03 31 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Georgia Phillips leads boys of the primary classes in group singing at the orthopedic department at Washington School, 545 West Dayton Street. |
| Date: | 03 31 1949 |
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| Description: | Taking motherly care of their dolls in the orthopedic department at Washington School are, left to right: Jeanne Laugen, Virginia Czerpinski, and Marian Mc... |
| Date: | 03 31 1949 |
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| Description: | Jimmy Fladen, Christine Mercer, and Paul Vincent manipulate Punch and Judy marionettes in the orthopedic department at Washington School, 545 West Dayton S... |
| Date: | 03 31 1949 |
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| Description: | Three girl scouts active in the Library Service Club help out in the orthopedic department at Washington School, 545 West Dayton Street. |
| Date: | 03 31 1949 |
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| Description: | Three older students work on the student newspaper in the orthopedic department at Washington School, 545 West Dayton Street. One of the students is a boy ... |
| Date: | 03 31 1949 |
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| Description: | Richard Johns of Janesville puts the finishing touches on a painting while seated in a wheelchair at the orthopedic department at Washington School, 545 We... |
| Date: | 03 31 1949 |
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| Description: | Gilbert Ripp of Waunakee works at a loom at the Wisconsin Homecraft Program, a part of the rehabilitation division of the State Board of Vocational and Adu... |
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