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| 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: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A blind(?) man operates a piece of machinery behind a table in a display booth at the "blind veterans show." The booth is labeled "International Harvester'... |
| 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: | 06 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Mr. and Mrs. Jack Severson provide entertainment during the marionette show "Holiday on Strings" as part of the sorority marionette show and tea party at t... |
| 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: | 09 30 1950 |
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| Description: | U.W. band director Ray Dvorak directs after returning from a two year battle with injuries suffered in a train wreck. He is shown in uniform directing the ... |
| Date: | 12 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Shown from left to right are Vincent Peterson using crutches, the Reverend Jerome Mersberger, pastor of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, and Mickey Hal... |
| Date: | 12 21 1950 |
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| Description: | A group of severely handicapped adults who take part in the homecraft program of the State Board of Vocational and Adult Education Rehabilitation Division ... |
| Date: | 01 23 1951 |
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| Description: | Two Junior Division University League members are shown with a trainee at the League's homecrafters' program at Truax Field. Seated at a weaving loom is t... |
| Date: | 01 23 1951 |
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| Description: | Two instructors at the Truax Field homecrafters' center and two members of the University League are pictured admiring some baked enamelware made by one of... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Michele Morgan, as the blind orphan Gertrude, Pierre Blanchar as the pastor, and Line Noro as Amélie in Jean Delannoy's La Symphonie Pastorale (1946... |
| Date: | 04 24 1951 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man sits at a jig saw making a bird house while receiving instruction in woodworking as a participant in the Madison Vocational School home... |
| Date: | 04 24 1951 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man sits at a loom making a rug while receiving instruction in weaving as a participant in the Madison Vocational School home craft program... |
| Date: | 10 26 1951 |
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| Description: | The "Old South" came to life as the Shorewood Hills Community League presented its minstrel show to Shorewood Hills residents and guests. Seated at the pia... |
| Date: | 12 10 1951 |
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| Description: | Harriet Kirchhoff, Delta Gamma Sorority member, reading to a blind student, Robert Langford, as part of a University of Wisconsin Student Service project. ... |
| 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: | 12 31 1951 |
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| Description: | Ann E. Boberschmidt, Edgewood College sophomore, is shown wearing a necklace and sweater. She was stricken with polio in November of 1945, paralysing her l... |
| Date: | 02 19 1952 |
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| Description: | "Shown above are some of the youthful Republicans who attended the annual Lincoln Day box supper Tuesday night in the Eagles Hall. Nearly 1,000 persons bra... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | German prisoners around a train car at a Russian railroad station. One of the men is on crutches. The original caption reads: "German prisoners at work on ... |
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