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Hydro-therapy Department at Wisconsin Memorial Hospital

Date: 03 04 1932
Description: Military veterans receive therapy in hot water tubs, with George Gardner, director of the hydro-therapy department, Wisconsin Memorial Hospital on Farwell ...
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Hank Aaron on the Massage Table

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Description: Henry Aaron on a table getting a massage.
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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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David Lindl

Date: 03 14 1955
Description: David Lindl, who has muscular dystrophy, shown with a physical therapist. David is one of many handicapped persons who is helped by the sale of Easter Seal...
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Therapy at Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital

Date: 11 06 1947
Description: Two young male patients and an occupational therapist doing an activity at the Wisconsin Orthodpedic Hospital, 1415 Linden Drive.
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Mendota State Hospital

Date: 08 11 1948
Description: Mendota State Hospital student volunteers shown assisting Dr. Adolf Soucek give a patient electric shock treatment. The University of Wisconsin students ar...
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U.S. Army Students at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Date: 02 18 1949
Description: Captain Olena Cole of the army nurse corps is doing graduate work in physical therapy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is posed by a large medic...
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Tuberculosis Patient

Date: 11 15 1949
Description: Doris Trameri of 568 Park Lane, previously diagnosed with tuberculosis, posing in her former room at Lake View Sanatorium while knitting argyle socks. She ...
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Dr. Robert West

Date: 03 24 1950
Description: Dr. Robert West, director of the University of Wisconsin speech clinic, was honored at a luncheon by the members of the Wisconsin Speech Correction Associa...
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Polio Resistance Exerciser

Date: 10 16 1951
Description: Crowds of shoppers watch the demonstration of a polio resistance exerciser held in a store display window. Dick Murphy, captain of the U.W. boxing team, is...
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Polio Resistance Exerciser

Date: 10 16 1951
Description: Close-up of a polio resistance exerciser. Dick Murphy, captain of the U.W. boxing team, is shown receiving "treatment" on the machine given by Frank Lam of...
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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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Reading Braille

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Description: A woman in dark glasses, who is a resident of Dane County Hospital and Home, reads a book in Braille as her therapist looks on.
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In the Uranium Tunnel

Date: 1954
Description: Men and women seated on benches along both walls of Kenneth Crook's Uranium Tunnel in Lone Rock. Note the uranium pads visitors hold in their laps or on th...
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Theology Students Get Clinical Training

Date: 03 03 1954
Description: An unnamed Mendota patient (left) and Kenneth Smith (right), a theology student receiving 12 weeks of training at Mendota State Hospital for the Mentally I...
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Easter Seals Beneficiaries

Date: 03 15 1954
Description: Margaret Fliegel holds a book while sitting on her bed in front of an anatomy chart. She was a senior physical therapy student and a Easter Seal grant rec...
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Conversational Therapy with Soldier

Date: 1945
Description: Martha Pratt, assistant field director at the Red Cross hospital in Saipan, participates in conversational therapy with a soldier wounded in Iwo Jima. Prat...
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St. Mary's Hospital Neuropsychiatric Treatment Center Dedication

Date: 03 21 1957
Description: The original caption states: "here, trying out the comfortable setting of the patients' living room are Irene Gruendler, Sister Mary of the Angels, Mary El...
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St. Mary's Hospital Neuropsychiatric Treatment Center Dedication

Date: 03 21 1957
Description: Dr. Edward Bruckner, pathologist, Sister Mary Seraphia, S.S.M., administrator of the hospital, and Eleanor DeMeuse, supervisor nurse, conferring in the gla...
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Alpha Chi Omega Entertain Small Cerebral Palsy Victims

Date: 03 26 1957
Description: The caption states: "Alpha Chi girls majoring in child development, Gwyneth Fair, left, and Dorthy Bell, entertain two small victims of cerebral palsy. The...

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