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| Date: | 03 18 1963 |
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| Description: | Four generations are represented in this portrait of a newborn baby with his mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Farmers in the street of a rural town with their International Harvester horse-drawn mowers and binders on "McCormick Day." The event was organized by the ... |
| Date: | 10 30 1934 |
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| Description: | Governor Albert Schmedeman at home. He is sitting in a wheelchair and holding a radio microphone. |
| Date: | 10 26 1934 |
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| Description: | Governor Albert Schmedeman sitting in a wheelchair smoking a cigarette, following left leg amputation. |
| Date: | 09 20 1934 |
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| Description: | Howard Miner, disabled World War I veteran, receiving Forget-me-not flower from Florence Palz, ladies auxiliary chairman, marking the opening of the forget... |
| Date: | 03 18 1932 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 30 1931 |
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| Description: | Disabled students with crutches, wheelchairs and other aids for locomotion holding a club meeting at Longfellow School in the Greenbush neighborhood. |
| Date: | 09 17 1931 |
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| Description: | Teacher and two students at the blackboard in the Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital for Children, University of Wisconsin, 436 N. Randall Street. |
| Date: | 09 17 1931 |
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| Description: | Girl in wheelchair with teacher at Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital for Children, University of Wisconsin, 436 North Randall Street. |
| Date: | 09 17 1931 |
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| Description: | Students seated at desks at Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital for Children, University of Wisconsin, 436 North Randall Street. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Charley Londek and visitors in front of a painted backdrop. Mr. Londek formerly worked at International Harvester's Deering Works and is... |
| Date: | 07 26 1941 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Ollie Jacobs (b. 1862), sitting in wheelchair. |
| Date: | 07 26 1941 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Ollie Jacobs (b. 1862), sitting in a wheelchair. |
| Date: | 09 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Male patients at the Veterans Hospital waiting in a hall to meet cartoonist Walt Kelly while he was visiting on a book tour. |
| Date: | 01 07 1953 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter Kohler sits with 2 1/2 year old Deborah Foster and her mother Ruth Foster, both polio victims. Governor Kohler is proclaiming January as "M... |
| Date: | 12 18 1956 |
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| Description: | Robert Jensen typing while sitting in a wheelchair. He was paralyzed by spinal polio after serving in the United States Army in Korea. |
| Date: | 11 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Judson Pearsall, commander of the Madison chapter of the Disabled American Veterans, visiting with an injured soldier, Sargent James E. Spangberg, at the T... |
| Date: | 02 08 1945 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin General Hospital room with two patients and a medical aide in crowded conditions. |
| Date: | 02 08 1945 |
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| Description: | Patient in wheelchair being taken outdoors in the snow between two buildings at Wisconsin General Hospital. |
| Date: | 02 08 1945 |
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| Description: | Patient being wheeled past laundry baskets and lockers in overcrowded Wisconsin General Hospital basement hallway. |
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