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| Date: | 07 27 1944 |
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| Description: | Childern attending a speech training class at the Wisconsin Orthopedic Cleft Palate Clinic. The clinic is sponsored by the Bureau for Handicapped Children ... |
| Date: | 07 27 1944 |
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| Description: | Childern with clinic director Charlotte Wells attending a speech training class at the Wisconsin Orthopedic Cleft Palate Clinic. The clinic is sponsored by... |
| Date: | 07 27 1944 |
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| Description: | Childern attending a speech training class at the Wisconsin Orthopedic Cleft Palate Clinic with Gretchen Mueller, speech correctionist. The clinic is spons... |
| Date: | 08 15 1945 |
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| Description: | Junior Red Cross members making Christmas tree decorations for military service units and hospitals overseas. Arline Whitefoot, on the right, assists a you... |
| Date: | 03 28 1946 |
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| Description: | Governor Goodland being presented with a sheet of Easter Seals by a disabled girl, Carol Schlimgen, age 9. Carol is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose P... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Madison Mayor, George Forrester, seated in the front row of the audience at the Ringling Brothers Circus. Clowns entertain the children seated near Forrest... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exhibit poster arguing that "the medical inspection of school children . . . means a broader understanding of childhood." In many of the photographs a man ... |
| Date: | 07 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Nettie Chase plays the part of the store clerk at the Lapham School summer workshop for deaf children. Ready to "purchase" fruit from the clerk are Sh... |
| Date: | 07 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Ella Zilner plays a record of a dog barking for students at the Lapham School summer workshop for deaf children. Listening to the recording are Dianne... |
| Date: | 12 31 1951 |
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| Description: | Polio victim Barbara Woroch cares for her two young sons, Gary, age 3, and Gregory, age 1. Barbara was stricken with polio three weeks before Gregory's bir... |
| Date: | 03 10 1952 |
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| Description: | Looking at scrapbooks of Camp Wawbeek are four pupils who attend the special orthopedic department at the Washington school in Madison. Camp Wawbeek, locat... |
| Date: | 12 28 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Arnold (Elizabeth) Griswold sitting in a wheelchair beside her family. She was diagnosed with polio in 1949. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Four boys in wheelchairs pose in front of a McCormick-Deering Farmall C. Another boy sits behind the steering wheel. Other agricultural equipment is arrang... |
| Date: | 08 1985 |
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| Description: | "Joel Bernhard, six years old, operates a six-key braille writer with the help of his mother Karen." |
| Date: | 10 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Student nurses in Madison take part in a state-wide aid project at various hospitals and welfare centers during Student Nurse Week. Susan Miller of Methodi... |
| Date: | 09 29 1959 |
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| Description: | Blooming Grove Fire Department Lt. John Robertstad installs an alert sign beneath the bedroom window of Lynn Stenrud to aid in rescue operations in the eve... |
| Date: | 12 30 1959 |
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| Description: | Dr. John Touissant , clinical director at Central Colony, accepts a television set from Y-Teens Alison Keith and Ruth Rauschenberger. The Senior Y-Teens of... |
| Date: | 10 1961 |
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| Description: | The Madison Area Retardation Council is one of 29 United Givers agencies. Some of the services the council provides for the mentally retarded are sheltered... |
| 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... |
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