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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Magazine illustration of the home, titled: "Soldiers' National Asylum at Milwaukee, Wisconsin". The building is in the background, and in the foreground ar... |
| 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: | 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 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: | Enjoying a game of checkers at the Madison Community center are three members of the Happy Hour club, a social organization for handicapped adults. From le... |
| 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: | 10 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Methodist hospital student nurses Karolyn McCauley (left) and Mary Bach (right) join in a card game with Robert Lloyd of Janesville and Jack Durham (in a w... |
| Date: | 11 02 1959 |
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| Description: | Woodcraft articles by Frank F. France will be among the many items sold at the sixth annual Homecrafters Fair at Scanlan Hall in the Madison Vocational and... |
| Date: | 03 08 1960 |
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| Description: | Marian Bedner (right) of Sun Prairie, who has arthritis, decorates eggs and makes egg trees for sale at the Homecrafters of Dane County 6th Annual Spring F... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 06 10 1965 |
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| Description: | Pat Kohl is holding a new kite being manufactured by Madison Opportunity Center, a rehabilitation workshop for the mentally and physically handicapped. It ... |
| Date: | 02 14 1953 |
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| Description: | Woman sitting in a wheelchair bowling. |
| Date: | 01 1955 |
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| Description: | Jim Sletten (in dark glasses) is holding onto a guide rail with his left hand while holding a bowling ball in hi right hand as he accepts assistance from L... |
| Date: | 01 1955 |
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| Description: | Jim Sletten, operator of the cigar stand in the State Office Building, fires the heavy ball down the alley. He has 163 games to his credit. He is one of ab... |
| Date: | 01 1955 |
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| Description: | David Buege is placing a bowling ball into the hands of his wife, Hazel Buege, who is one of about fifteen visually impaired participants who gather weekly... |
| Date: | 01 1955 |
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| Description: | Hazel Buege is holding onto a rail with her left hand, and releasing a bowling ball with her right hand towards standing bowling pins. She is one of about ... |
| Date: | 01 29 1955 |
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| Description: | Jean Jackson releasing a bowling ball at a gathering of blind bowlers at Playdium Alleys. She is one of about fifteen visually impaired participants who ga... |
| Date: | 01 29 1955 |
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| Description: | Ruby Graf and Della Killerlain posing with a bowling ball. They are two of about fifteen visually impaired participants who gather weekly on Tuesdays at Pl... |
| Date: | 01 29 1955 |
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| Description: | Mildred Finney releases a bowling ball. She is one of about fifteen visually impaired participants who gather weekly on Tuesdays at Playdium Alleys, locate... |
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