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| Date: | 05 16 1950 |
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| Description: | Leslie Zacharias, a blind hitchhiker, is shown standing with his thumb out. A University of Wisconsin junior, he has hitchhiked an estimated 8,000 miles in... |
| Date: | 10 19 1950 |
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| Description: | White House conference panelists post for a portrait at the Dane County Association of Health Councils meeting. They are, from left: Morris Hursh, executi... |
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| Description: | A mother arriving at the Health Center with her special needs children. |
| Date: | 08 02 1951 |
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| Description: | Bonnie Wainscott (left), age 16, and her mother Mrs. Grace Wainscott are greeted by Francis M. Higgins, President of Wisconsin Central Airlines. The Wainsc... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Two Ojibwa men standing outdoors on a blanket while shaking hands. The man on the left is dressed in a suit and wearing a hat while holding a blind walking... |
| Date: | 03 07 1952 |
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| Description: | Erna Schweppe showing members of her Troop No. 6 at Washington Orthopedic school a proclamation by Governor Walter Kohler recognizing the 40th anniversary ... |
| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of officials and employees of the Wisconsin state administration, who made up Governor Jeremiah M. Rusk's "one-armed and one-legged" staff o... |
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| Description: | View of Ward 15 of the United States General Hospital No. 7, as designated by the surgeon-general in 1918. Intended for returning soldiers' physical recons... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of blind men learning carpentry skills at the United States General Hospital No. 7, as designated by the surgeon-general in 1918. Intended for returni... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Interior of the United States General Hospital No. 7, as designated by the surgeon-general in 1918. Intended for returning soldiers' physical reconstructio... |
| Date: | 05 09 1952 |
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| Description: | "With her roommate Helen Blohm (right) playing the role of the subject, Mary Louise Lane (left) checks her hearing with an audiometer. Miss Lane, blind co-... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of William Tennant standing and wearing a suit and hat in front of a painted backdrop. He was a newspaper and magazine agent in Black River... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of William Tennant sitting and wearing a suit and hat in front of a painted backdrop. He was a newspaper and magazine agent in Black River ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Three Confederate veterans sitting in a tent at the National Confederate Reunion. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Cover layout of the Volume 35, Number 2 issue of "International Trail" magazine featuring a photograph of a woman using a seeing-eye dog to walk down a dri... |
| Date: | 09 17 1952 |
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| Description: | The "heart kitchen," a new kitchen designed to show women with heart trouble how to cut their work in half, recently constructed in the Madison Vocational ... |
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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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| 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. |
| Date: | 01 21 1953 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Harry Segerstrom, Cuba City, sitting while washing dishes at a sink, demonstrating efficient dish washing methods for people with limited physical abi... |
| Date: | 06 18 1953 |
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| Description: | Jean Welsch uses the telephone to recruit volunteers for the Polio Emergency Volunteer training course. At her side is her son Bobby, age 3 1/2 years, who ... |
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