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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Group of people posing outside of Soldiers' Orphans Home, located on Spaight Street between Paterson and Brearly Streets. The building was originally const... |
| Date: | 04 17 1957 |
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| Description: | A Girl Scout crocheting doilies at a senior citizens' care center with her "adoptive grandmother." |
| Date: | 04 17 1957 |
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| Description: | An elderly woman, Josephine Fell, is the "adopted grandmother" to a Girl Scout that visits her and works with her on a puzzle at Rosemary's Nursing Home in... |
| Date: | 10 17 1968 |
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| Description: | An elderly man and woman make new cane seats for chairs at the Cedar Lake Home for the Aged. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Group portrait outdoors of the administrative and nursing staff of the Winnebago County Asylum. Pictured in the center back row is E.E. Manuel, the Superin... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the laundry room at the Winnebago County Asylum. Pictured are the staff, including a young boy. Some of the women are ironing articles of ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the nursing staff at the Winnebago County Asylum. Eight nurses in uniform are lined up near the exterior of a brick building. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Six staff members pose in the laundry room in the Winnebago County Asylum. In the room are carts of laundry and a machine on the right. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Four women and two men are standing at the tree-lined drive surrounded by a lawn which leads into the Winnebago County Asylum. The man on far right in the... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of six nurses, taken on the lawn of the Winnebago County Asylum. Three nurses standing in the back row are holding a "Winnebago" pen... |
| Date: | 09 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Howard Herschleder, president of Dane County Mental Health Association, presenting a check for the Dane County home at Verona. Receiving the check are Fran... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Miss Lydia Henie, 76 years old, playing the piano in the devotional room of the Home for Aged Lutherans, 7500 West North Avenue. |
| Date: | 09 23 1959 |
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| Description: | Two acres of land in the University Hill Farm plot have been purchased by the Attic Angel Association as a site for a nursing home. The present Attic Angel... |
| Date: | 12 20 1963 |
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| Description: | Four residents of the Barron County Nursing Home in Cumberland are making crafts around a table. A caption on the photograph reads: "This group in occupati... |
| Date: | 03 13 1989 |
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| Description: | A smiling man is petting a dog held by a woman. Caption reads: "Art Borowiak patted Buttons, a toy poodle owned by Ann Turney." |
| Date: | 03 29 1962 |
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| Description: | Three women with leis around their necks. Caption reads: "It was Hawaiian night Wednesday for patients at the Sky-View nursing home, 901 S. 3rd St. Mrs. Ca... |
| Date: | 12 20 1960 |
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| Description: | Montrose school district students from Dane & Green County entertain residents at the Dane County Hospital and Home in Verona. The children performed a Chr... |
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