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Harry Thompson and Frank Buehler
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Harry C. Thompson, Madison recreation director and chairman of the Dane County WPA shut-in program, and Frank Buehler, 717 North Lawn Avenue, who has paralysis of both lower limbs, looking at blocks of wood Buehler made for Longfellow School crippled department, the first project that has been completed on the shut-in program.
April 15, 1937
Black, William C.
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Women's Volleyball Team
March 24, 1937
Group portrait of 15 women, Longfellow School women's volleyball team.
Crippled Children Fire Drill
November 28, 1932
Crippled children in a fire drill at Longfellow School, 1002 Chandler Street. Greenbush Neighborhood. "They emerge in two orderly files, one for the most able and another for those hampered with gr...
Polio Survey
August 9, 1944
James R. Law, chairman of the Dane County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Palmer F. Daugs, Lake Mills, representative of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis,...
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis - Dane Co. Chapter
March 8, 1950
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis - Dane County Chapter retiring officers Leonard T. "Dutch" Midland, March of Dimes Chairman, and James R. Law, Dane County Chapter Chairman of National F...
Madison Vocational School Homecraft Program
April 24, 1951
An unidentified man sits at a jig saw making a bird house while receiving instruction in woodworking as a participant in the Madison Vocational School home craft program. This program teaches home ...
Carl Thompson, Harry S. Truman, and Governor Oscar Rennebohm
October 15, 1948
Left to right are: Carl Thompson, Stoughton, Democratic candidate for governor; Harry S. Truman, President, and Democratic candidate for the presidency; and Oscar Rennebohm, Republican governor of ...
