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Deaf-mute School, Saint Francis, Wisconsin

Date: 1898
Description: Exterior view of a school for the deaf and mute.
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Wisconsin Orthopedic Cleft Palate Clinic

Date: 07 27 1944
Description: Childern attending a speech training class at the Wisconsin Orthopedic Cleft Palate Clinic. The clinic is sponsored by the Bureau for Handicapped Children ...
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Orthopedic Hospital Cleft Palate Clinic

Date: 07 27 1944
Description: Childern with clinic director Charlotte Wells attending a speech training class at the Wisconsin Orthopedic Cleft Palate Clinic. The clinic is sponsored by...
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Orthopedic Hospital Cleft Palate Clinic

Date: 07 27 1944
Description: Childern attending a speech training class at the Wisconsin Orthopedic Cleft Palate Clinic with Gretchen Mueller, speech correctionist. The clinic is spons...
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Albert Koerth

Date: 03 22 1945
Description: Albert Koerth, 123 Van Deusen Street, making toys and repairing furniture for the Dane County homework shops which employ persons with disabilities.
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Mrs. Eda Haugsland

Date: 03 22 1945
Description: Mrs. Eda Haugsland, 207 North Pinckney Street, sewing lapel decorations for the Dane County homework shops which employ persons with disabilities.
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Cyril Morrison

Date: 03 22 1945
Description: Cyril Morrison, who is blind, weaving rag rugs for the Dane County homework shops which employ persons with disabilities.
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Charence L. Greiber with World War II Veteran

Date: 04 12 1945
Description: Clarence L. Greiber, Director of the Wisconsin State Board of Vocational and Adult Education, with Lester Morrisey, a discharged World War II veteran, show...
Poster

WLA Exhibit Poster: The Medical Inspection of School Children

Date: 1915
Description: Exhibit poster arguing that "the medical inspection of school children . . . means a broader understanding of childhood." In many of the photographs a man ...
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Madison Summer Workshop for Deaf Children

Date: 07 26 1950
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...
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Madison Summer Workshop for Deaf Children

Date: 07 26 1950
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...
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U.W. vs. Marquette Football Game

Date: 09 30 1950
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 ...
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Madison Vocational School Homecraft Program

Date: 04 24 1951
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...
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Madison Vocational School Homecraft Program

Date: 04 24 1951
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...
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Easter Seal Sales Help the Handicapped

Date: 03 10 1952
Description: Matt Esser is learning how to weave under Mrs. Mina Dutton's direction. Mrs. Dutton is one of the instructors at the Wisconsin Homecraft Training center, ...
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Easter Seal Sales Help the Handicapped

Date: 03 10 1952
Description: Edward Meier painting artistic floral plaques, a skill Mr. Meier learned through the Homecraft training service provided by the district rehabilitation off...
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Wisconsin School for the Deaf Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Wisconsin School for the Deaf in Delavan, Wisconsin, with a background image of an elevated view of the school? and surrounding grounds p...
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Lent and Teenagers

Date: 02 14 1956
Description: Hazel Hargrove, freshman at Central High School, reads to her blind neighbor, Mrs. L.E. Grandison, as a Lenten expression of concern for others.
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Student Nurse Week

Date: 10 07 1957
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...
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Student Nurse Week

Date: 10 07 1957
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...

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