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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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State Institute for the Blind

Date: 1915
Description: The State Institute for the Blind.
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Mother with Special Needs Children

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Description: A mother arriving at the Health Center with her special needs children.
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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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Dane County Home Resident

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Description: A view down a hallway at the Dane County Hospital and Home, with the silhouette of a man in a wheelchair at the end.
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Hope Health and Rehabilitation

Date: 08 08 2008
Description: "(Note all eights) After having hip replacement surgery, Shirley Widmer is shown with her little friend Ginger, at Hope Health and Rehab, 475 Grove Street ...
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Hope Rehabilitation Center

Date: 03 06 2009
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...
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Wisconsin Diagnostic Center

Date: 09 01 1954
Description: Dr. Robert O'Connor, staff member at the Wisconsin Diagnostic Center at 1552 University Avenue, introduces a young patient to a toy "punching bag" figure, ...
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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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Sale of Christmas Seals Help Tuberculosis Patients

Date: 11 12 1957
Description: Virgil Chadwick from Cuba City sits at his typewriter at Lake View Sanatorium where he is a tuberculosis patient. Mr. Chadwick is taking a writing course t...
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Gifts For Neurological Patients

Date: 09 29 1960
Description: Pauline Dubner, a patient at the Wisconsin Neurological Foundation, poses in her hospital bed next to a new record player in a case. Behind her stand the f...
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Nursing Home Patients Find Dignity in Self-Help

Date: 09 14 1965
Description: Jim McCredie, resident of Colonial Manor Nursing Home, and also manager of the small store for residents, is shown helping a customer, Josephine Spoerl.
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Nursing Home Patients Find Dignity in Self-Help

Date: 09 14 1965
Description: Ella Rodefer is shown in her wheelchair at a table with others during their twice weekly coffee hour and social at the Colonial Manor Nursing Home.
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Christmas Cheer for Children

Date: 12 14 1957
Description: Kappa Delta sorority members look on while some children are talking to Santa Claus. The children are "shut-ins" at Morningside sanatorium. Morningside san...

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