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Filter: Creator Name of Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972
| Date: | 10 01 1950 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Marshall M. Parkinson, 317 Langdon Street, a 1884 U.W. graduate and a emblem (letter) wearer in baseball. He attended Wisconsin before there wa... |
| Date: | 01 23 1951 |
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| Description: | Two Junior Division University League members are shown with a trainee at the League's homecrafters' program at Truax Field. Seated at a weaving loom is t... |
| Date: | 02 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Representatives of four child welfare organizations receive annual fund presentations from the officers of Dane County Voiture 683 of the 40 et 8 at Legion... |
| 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: | 03 10 1952 |
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| Description: | Matt Esser is learning how to weave under Mrs. Mina Dutton's direction. Mrs. Dutton is one of the instructors at the Wisconsin Homecraft Training center, ... |
| Date: | 07 07 1952 |
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| Description: | Harlan Kelly, Sauk County district attorney, left, and Harvey Higley, Marinette, leader of the 24 Badger Taft delegates, right, talk over strategy at Wisco... |
| Date: | 07 07 1952 |
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| Description: | Harlan W. Kelley of Baraboo, is disabled. He is the Sauk County district attorney, and talks with Cyrus L. Phillips of Milwaukee at the Republican National... |
| Date: | 12 04 1952 |
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| Description: | Three Boy Scouts and seven Cub Scouts of the Washington Orthopedic School received awards in the advancement ceremonies held at the school. Tenderfoot rank... |
| Date: | 10 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Nellie A. Brown, night supervisor of nurses, represents a modern nurse as she is pushing a patient in a wheelchair. Posing as the patient is Geneva F. McKa... |
| Date: | 03 15 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 28 1954 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Arnold (Elizabeth) Griswold sitting in a wheelchair beside her family. She was diagnosed with polio in 1949. |
| Date: | 12 28 1954 |
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| Description: | Everett L. Liddicoat, an insurance agent and 4-year veteran of the Army Air Corps, was diagnosed with polio in 1949. |
| Date: | 03 15 1955 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 06 1956 |
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| Description: | Harold W. Rucks, of Edgerton sits in a wheel chair while working at a table jig saw. Rucks, who had been severely crippled for 17 years with rheumatiod art... |
| Date: | 03 06 1956 |
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| Description: | Herman Skolas sits in a wheelchair while weaving on his loom as his eight-year-old granddaughter, Deborah Culham of Stoughton, looks on approvingly. Skolas... |
| Date: | 03 06 1956 |
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| Description: | Members of the Dane County Medical Society Auxiliary maintain a loan closet which contains medical equipment which can be borrowed by families. Pictured ar... |
| Date: | 03 21 1955 |
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| Description: | Pat Farrell, with a broken right leg, polishes silver while confined to the house she shares with three other young women at 2253 Rugby Row. |
| Date: | 04 11 1956 |
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| Description: | Don Eastin, Dorothy Angevine, and Louise Brown looking at a piece of artwork held by artist John Bergman that will be displayed at the Wisconsin Neurologic... |
| Date: | 03 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Members of the Four Lakes Secretaries Association present a check for $100 to Mary Mills, a victim of polio, seated in a wheelchair. The money will help de... |
| Date: | 10 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Student nurses in Madison take part in a state-wide aid project at various hospitals and welfare centers during Student Nurse Week. Susan Miller of Methodi... |
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