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| Date: | 11 01 1960 |
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| Description: | A scene at the Wisconsin Neurological Foundation, 1954 East Washington Avenue, which is observing it's 10th anniversary. Patient Jim Markl, Watertown, WI, ... |
| Date: | 04 26 1959 |
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| Description: | Mrs. A. Newel Whitney, an occupational therapist at Mendota State Hospital, is shown helping a patient lace together sections of a leather purse as part of... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Bird's-Eye View of Resthaven, Waukesha, Wis." Built in 1905 of brick in the Neoclassical style, Resthaven was a large resort hotel fr... |
| Date: | 11 26 1957 |
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| Description: | The Orris Ulvestad family members, 4309 Drexel Avenue, welcome home Jo Ann after she spent three months in a respiratory center at the University of Michig... |
| Date: | 02 02 1954 |
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| Description: | A nurse standing next to a patient who is exercising at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic. |
| Date: | 04 28 1958 |
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| Description: | A room with two massage tables in the remodeled YMCA on West Washington Avenue is shown as the building is dedicated. |
| Date: | 01 23 1951 |
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| Description: | Four members of the University League make aprons for the homecrafters to wear while they do their craft work for the state rehabilitation center at Truax ... |
| Date: | 03 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Dean Fiedler sits in a wheel chair while working at a loom. Fiedler wove rag rugs at the Homecrafters' Training Center at the Vocational School. The rugs w... |
| 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: | 03 04 1932 |
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| Description: | A military veteran learns rug weaving at Wisconsin Memorial Hospital on Farwell Point, adjoining Mendota Mental Health Hospital as part of his rehabilitati... |
| Date: | 07 09 1958 |
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| Description: | Michael "Mickey" Schepp stands at bat during a baseball game with catcher Dick Froemming and umpire Clarement Redders Jr. Ten-year-old Mickey, the son of C... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | The Institution for the Education of the Blind. Caption reads: "Institution for the Education of the Blind, Janesville, Wisc. Free to Blind Children of Wis... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | The Institution for the Education of the Blind. |
| Date: | 01 17 1950 |
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| Description: | Skating hand in hand to a waltz tune are, from left to right, Lorraine Bokina, Hugh Bell, Fritz Balsley, and Gary Rieman. Also standing on the far right is... |
| Date: | 03 31 1949 |
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| Description: | Gilbert Ripp of Waunakee works at a loom at the Wisconsin Homecraft Program, a part of the rehabilitation division of the State Board of Vocational and Adu... |
| Date: | 03 04 1932 |
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| Description: | Military veterans receive therapy in hot water tubs, with George Gardner, director of the hydro-therapy department, Wisconsin Memorial Hospital on Farwell ... |
| Date: | 03 06 2009 |
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| Description: | "At Hope Rehab Center they gave us a nice room where we could meet with former Theresa residents. Clockwise they are (residents marked with an *) *Rogeen F... |
| Date: | 03 15 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 11 12 1957 |
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| 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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