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Toto the Clown with Children

Date: 03 18 1932
Description: RKO clown "Toto" distributes cardboard Easter bunnies packed with lollipops from the W.T. Grant Company. This event was held in the 2nd floor playroom at U...
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Shriners Yule Party

Date: 12 18 1947
Description: Fletcher Mills doing a card trick for three children, with a clown looking on, at the Madison Shriners yule party at the Washington Orthopedic School, 545 ...
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George Forrester at Ringling Circus

Date: 1953
Description: Madison Mayor, George Forrester, seated in the front row of the audience at the Ringling Brothers Circus. Clowns entertain the children seated near Forrest...
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Bashford Methodist Church Party

Date: 12 15 1948
Description: Santa Claus distributing gifts to five youth in wheelchairs at a party at Bashford Methodist Church at 11 N. 7th Street.
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 359-369

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Description: Everybody was wonderful

Stars kept rising, pink and gold
Trailing threads of breathless music
barely out of reach
Hand to hand around the n...
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Santa Visits Children at Hospital

Date: 12 21 1959
Description: Santa autographs an above the knee full leg cast worn by Deborah Sosinsky as she looks on from her wheelchair.
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King and Queen

Date: 04 1957
Description: Costumed figures placing crowns on the heads of two children in wheelchairs, probably as king and queen at an institutional party.
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St. Patrick's Day Costume

Date: 03 2014
Description: Michael Pierce Murphy in his giant leprauchan hat and decorated scooter wheelchair at Becker Plaza.
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John Belushi on Stage

Date: 1968
Description: John Belushi performing a scene with Virginia Newcomb from the play Night Must Fall at UW-Whitewater. Newcomb is sitting in a wheelchair and Belushi...
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Glynis Johns and David Tomlinson

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Description: Actress Glynis Johns preparing to film a scene from the 1948 film "Miranda." She is sitting in a wheelchair, and is having her hair arranged by an unidenti...
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Glynis Johns and David Tomlinson

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Description: Actors Glynis Johns and David Tomlinson, and the film crew, waiting to film an outdoor scene from the 1948 film "Miranda." Men are around a movie camera in...

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