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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait of an elderly woman and a crossed left eye. She is wearing a lace collar with a pin at the neck. |
| Date: | 03 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Roland and Winnie Delamater, who were both seriously physically handicapped by cerebral palsy since birth, hanging up the wash in their basement. The coupl... |
| Date: | 03 11 1957 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 25 1958 |
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| Description: | Because Chester Hartel, husband of the Wisconsin state president of Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority is a polio victim, the three chapters of the sorority in M... |
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| Description: | On left: Woman posed sitting in a chair and holding a cane in the yard of a house, probably Mrs. Hassel Phillips. On right: Studio portrait of two young gi... |
| Date: | 05 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Jackson Talmadge Durham, known as Jackie, admires his birthday presents along with his fellow students Mary Puccio, Charmaine Lohr, Louise Richardt and Nor... |
| Date: | 12 12 1958 |
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| Description: | A group attends the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Madison's new store, operated by handicapped people. Gathered in the doorway are Hazel Vivian, 1954 East Wa... |
| Date: | 1993 |
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| Description: | Color photo of a man and a woman assisting a girl on a wheelchair lift for a model 3600 Special Needs bus. The "International" emblem is on the front of th... |
| Date: | 09 29 1960 |
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| Description: | Pauline Dubner, a patient at the Wisconsin Neurological Foundation, poses in her hospital bed next to a new record player in a case. Behind her stand the f... |
| Date: | 04 27 1961 |
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| Description: | Members of the United Cerebral-Palsy Parents League meet monthly to exchange information and experiences. Pictured, from left to right: Alma Dambekaln, Jam... |
| Date: | 11 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Women in a neighborhood near Dean Avenue study sign language so that more deaf women can join their homemakers' club. Mrs. Gordon Mather, left, gives the s... |
| Date: | 11 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Women in a neighborhood near Dean Avenue study sign language so that more deaf women can join their homemakers club. Chatting through sign language are, le... |
| Date: | 2013 |
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| Description: | Crystal (Courtney) is assisted by a lift for her wheelchair into a van at Becker Plaza. The lift operator is wearing a Green Bay Packers sweatshirt. Buildi... |
| Date: | 10 20 1961 |
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| Description: | Several men and women patients from Mendota State Hospital are watching the bears at the Vilas Park Zoo. A volunteer took them for the outing in her person... |
| Date: | 10 1961 |
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| Description: | The Speech and Hearing Rehabilitation Center on the University of Wisconsin Campus is one of 29 United Givers agencies. It serves about 500 people each yea... |
| Date: | 09 14 1965 |
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| Description: | Jim McCredie, resident of Colonial Manor Nursing Home, and also manager of the small store for residents, is shown helping a customer, Josephine Spoerl. |
| Date: | 09 14 1965 |
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| Description: | Ella Rodefer is shown in her wheelchair at a table with others during their twice weekly coffee hour and social at the Colonial Manor Nursing Home. |
| Date: | 08 1889 |
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| Description: | Formal outdoor group portrait of the 29th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers. They are posing while lined up on the front steps of the Milwaukee Armory building... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Poster depicting four people. The woman is monumental, with a billowing dress and a Red Cross hat. She is holding a boy with a crutch in her left arm. Her ... |
| Date: | 2013 |
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| Description: | View from street towards a woman wearing a coat and boots standing at the corner of 7th and Cass Street with her seeing-eye dog. There is a fire hydrant on... |
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