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Handicraft Sales at Wisconsin Memorial Hospital

Date: 03 04 1932
Description: Handicrafts, including wicker furniture and rugs on display at the sales display room in Wisconsin Memorial Hospital, on Farwell Point, adjoining Mendota M...
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Tommy Manning

Date: 02 18 1953
Description: Joan Kain, speech therapist, helps Tommy Manning, age 3, who has cerebral palsy, learn to talk by showing him objects on a display board. It is part of hi...
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March of Dimes Campaign

Date: 12 31 1951
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...
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Easter Seals Beneficiaries

Date: 03 15 1954
Description: Elsie Smavy (right), bedridden in her seventh year of polio and with limited movement in her lower arms, creates embroidery. Her children, Molly, 7, and Ni...
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Employees with Disabilities

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: Mary Ann O'Loughlen sits at her desk in the State Office building where she is employed as a typist by the Traveling Library Department, Free Library Commi...
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Employees with Disabilities

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: Portrait of Donald Fornasiere sitting at his drafting table in the special tools engineering department at Gisholt Machine Company. Mr. Fornasiere is part ...
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Easter Seals Beneficiaries

Date: 03 15 1954
Description: Terry Snowden stands with crutches and looks on as Marjorie Parish, seated and wearing a leg brace with a crutch at her side, examines a pamphlet. They are...
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Sale of Christmas Seals Help Tuberculosis Patients

Date: 11 12 1957
Description: Physical therapist Robert Straelczyk gives a diathermy treatment for spinal arthritis to Swen Auestad, at Lake View Sanatorium, where Mr. Auestad is also a...
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Two-Way Speaker Connects School and Home

Date: 02 15 1961
Description: Jerry Novick sits at his kitchen table at home, taking part in his classes at East High School via two-way speaker. This will continue until he recovers fr...
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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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Boy Crushed by Culvert Making Recovery

Date: 12 11 1964
Description: William Grab, age 12, learning to walk with the help of his mother, a boy, and a walker seven months after being crushed when a two-ton culvert rolled over...
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Soldiers Break in the Lounge

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Description: Soldiers reading books and the paper on a break from life on the front. The "Kaisereck" convalescence home for wounded soldiers on Hartenbergstrasse 16 (Be...
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Ration Stamps for Wounded Soldiers

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Description: German soldiers receiving a distribution of ration stamps at the "Kaisereck" convalescence home for wounded soldiers on Hartenbergstrasse 16 (Berlin). Her ...
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German Soldiers Playing Billiards at a Convalescence Home

Date: 1914
Description: The "Kaisereck" convalescence home for wounded soldiers on Hartenbergstrasse 16 (Berlin). Soldiers are playing billiards.
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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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Neurological Hospital Observes Anniversary

Date: 11 01 1960
Description: A scene at the Wisconsin Neurological Foundation, 1954 East Washington Avenue, which is observing it's 10th anniversary. Patient Jim Markl, Watertown, WI, ...

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