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Court House Concession

Date: 04 22 1948
Description: Lloyd Harmon, from Belleville, who has been blind from birth, standing at the first concession stand to be erected in the Dane County Court House. The disp...
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Employees with Disabilities

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: Mary Ann O'Loughlen sits at her desk in the State Office building where she is employed as a typist by the Traveling Library Department, Free Library Commi...
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Employees with Disabilities

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: Portrait of Robert Gaines, an employee at Oscar Mayer and company. Mr. Gaines is part of the 'Madison Story' — the account of the opportunities this city o...
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Employees with Disabilities

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: Portrait of Donald Fornasiere sitting at his drafting table in the special tools engineering department at Gisholt Machine Company. Mr. Fornasiere is part ...
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Employees with Disabilities

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: Portrait of Eldon Vondra at his job as as engraver at the Varigraph Company, makers of mechanical lettering instruments. Five of the 10 Varigraph employees...
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Employees with Disabilities

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: Portrait of Howard Davis at his job as a general assembler at the Ohio Chemical and Surgical Equipment Company. Mr. Davis is part of the 'Madison Story' — ...
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Easter Seals Beneficiaries

Date: 03 15 1954
Description: Dean Fiedler sits in a wheel chair while working at a loom. Fiedler wove rag rugs at the Homecrafters' Training Center at the Vocational School. The rugs w...
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Union Members Group Portrait

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Description: Group portrait in front of a large stone building with arches of members of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 880 holding giant pennie...
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Union Members Marching

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Description: Members of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 880 march across a plaza in protest. Some are carrying signs shaped like giant pennies. Disab...
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Wilbur La Bounty, Paralyzed Homecrafter Making Bird Houses

Date: 03 15 1955
Description: He is Wilbur La Bounty, paralyzed homecrafter, making bird houses. He is sitting before a work table with a jig saw and his completed 12 log cabin-style bi...
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First Governor's Conference on Aging Population

Date: 05 28 1956
Description: Employment of older adults is one of the topics of discussion at the First Governor's Conference on an Aging Population. 76 year old James Jordan works on ...
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Roland and Winnie Delamater Family

Date: 03 11 1957
Description: Roland Delameter cleans a blackboard in a Bascom Hall classroom during his job as a maintenance man at the University of Wisconsin. Roland and his wife, Wi...
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Roland and Winnie Delamater Family

Date: 03 11 1957
Description: Winnie Delamater holds Jay Punwar, 15 months, for whom she is providing child care. A pet dog is sitting next to them. Winnie and her husband Roland were b...
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Wisconsin Optometric Association 59th Annual Convention

Date: 05 19 1959
Description: Dorothy Cleary (left), chairman of the children's corner display; Carl Strobel, president of the Wisconsin Optometric Association; Gerald Cleary, general c...
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Dr. Lester McGary; Pathologist Honored

Date: 08 29 1959
Description: Dr. Lester McGary (shown second from right), pathologist emeritus at Madison General hospital, is honored for his 36 years of service starting in 1923. Sho...
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Nurse's Scholarship

Date: 09 30 1960
Description: Phyllis Harrington (right) of Arena, a second-year student nurse at St. Mary's, was awarded the Iowa county 40 and 8 chapter nursing scholarship. The prese...
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Group Portrait of Men in Business Suits

Date: 04 23 1913
Description: Outdoor group portrait of men standing in front of a brick building. "Safety Committee." A sign at the doorway reads: "Employment Office."

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