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| Date: | 04 11 1965 |
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| Description: | A hospital patient plays a scrabble game with an occupational therapist. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Cadle Home, an Episcopal Home for aged people. The Cadle Home was named for Reverend Cadle who went to Green Bay in 1829 as the first local... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The Gisholt Home for the Aged, 3030 City View Drive at Burke Road on Madison's far east side. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of an "old ladies' home." Caption reads: "Old Ladies' Home, Racine, Wis." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Located at Wells Street and 20th Street. Building is five stories high with several chimneys and a tower with a cross on the roof in the center of the buil... |
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| Description: | Front view of the addition to the Methodist Episcopal Home for the Aged, founded on May 10, 1883. Pedestrians are crossing the street near an automobile an... |
| Date: | 01 1979 |
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| Description: | Congressman David Obey (right) enjoys lunch at a senior center in his northern Wisconsin congressional district. |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | The driver helps a senior citizen board the bus after a lunch at the Medford Senior Center. |
| Date: | 01 1979 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 1979 |
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| Description: | Bus operated by the Portage County Commission on Aging and its driver. The bus took senior citizens to lunch at the Senior Center and provided other servic... |
| Date: | 07 29 1995 |
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| Description: | At a celebration for the 30th anniversary of Medicare, Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey and guests blow out the candles on a cake. |
| Date: | 09 1995 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin, a strong supporter of seniors, helps to deliver meals on wheels to a home-bound resident of his district. |
| Date: | 01 1979 |
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| Description: | Green Thumb was a project sponsored by the National Farmers Union to find jobs for the elderly people who were able to work. During his district tour Congr... |
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| Description: | Wilbur J. Cohen receiving a pen from President Lyndon Johnson at the White House on the signing of the Older Americans Act. This act was established under ... |
| Date: | 11 05 1969 |
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| Description: | Formal portrait of Nelson Cruickshank. In 1969, he became President of the AFL-CIO National Council of Senior Citizens, which began as a coalition Nelson C... |
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