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Suitcases

Date: 11 12 1967
Description: Women unpack their suitcases at rest home.
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Public Hearing On Proposed Sites for County Home

Date: 01 10 1950
Description: Large crowd that filled the circuit courtroom of the Dane County Court House at a public hearing on proposed sites for the county home for the chronically ...
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Dane County Home for the Aged Christmas Party

Date: 12 16 1951
Description: Residents of the Dane County Home for the Aged in Verona are pictured while receiving gifts and lunch at the Madison Association of Underwriters' annual Ch...
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Beautician Working with Oakwood Resident

Date: 02 24 1953
Description: A resident of the Oakwood Lutheran Nursing Home is given a permanent by an apprentice in the Madison Vocational and Adult School cosmetology program.
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Senior Center Tour

Date: 01 1979
Description: Congressman David Obey (right) enjoys lunch at a senior center in his northern Wisconsin congressional district.
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Lunch Time

Date: 01 1979
Description: Lunchtime at a senior center in central Wisconsin. Congressman David R. Obey can be seen talking in the background. Although the location has not been iden...
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Happy Birthday Medicare

Date: 07 29 1995
Description: At a celebration for the 30th anniversary of Medicare, Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey and guests blow out the candles on a cake.
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First Governor's Conference on Aging Population

Date: 05 26 1956
Description: Discussing plans for the First Governor's Conference on an Aging Population are Governor Walter Kohler; Minnetta Hastings, chairman of the committee on the...
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Group at Fond du Lac Lutheran Home

Date: 04 1997
Description: Kay Widmer-Hren and her daughter Carly entertain Mrs. Edna Knueppel, age 95, at the Fond du Lac Lutheran Home.
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Karly Hren and Edna Knueppel

Date: 04 1997
Description: Carly Hren pushes Edna Knueppal at the Lutheran Home.
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Christmas Party at Oakwood Lutheran Home

Date: 12 18 1954
Description: Mary Anderson and Ted Cox, members of the Sherman Avenue Methodist Church youth choir, sing Christmas carols at a party for residents of Oakwood Lutheran H...
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Christmas Party at Oakwood Lutheran Home

Date: 12 18 1954
Description: Elizabeth Damres (left), home matron, and Helen Antoine, Mendota Garden Club member, pass out gifts during a Christmas party for residents of the Oakwood L...
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Christmas Party at Oakwood Lutheran Home

Date: 12 18 1954
Description: Vivian Schleck (left), member of the Mendota Garden Club, lights a candle, and Mrs. Alvin Sonnenberg, member of the Little Garden Clubs, serves cookies du...
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"Foster Parents" Meeting

Date: 03 09 1955
Description: Seated at a table during a meeting for 120 Madison and Dane County foster parents are, left to right: Dr. Leland Reeck, director of the County Child Guidan...
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"Foster Parents" Meeting

Date: 03 09 1955
Description: During a meeting for 120 Madison and Dane County foster parents, Evelyn Owens of Sun Prairie, left, pins a name tag on Margaret Olson, a foster mother. The...
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"Foster Parents" Meeting

Date: 03 09 1955
Description: Two couples discuss mutual experiences as foster parents at a meeting for 120 Madison and Dane County foster parents. They include, left to right: Mrs. and...

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