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Christmas Entertainment at Dane County Hospital and Home in Verona

Date: 12 20 1960
Description: Montrose school district students from Dane & Green County entertain residents at the Dane County Hospital and Home in Verona. The children performed a Chr...
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Neurological Hospital Observes Anniversary

Date: 11 01 1960
Description: A scene at the Wisconsin Neurological Foundation, 1954 East Washington Avenue, which is observing it's 10th anniversary. Patient Jim Markl, Watertown, WI, ...
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Neurological Hospital Observes Anniversary

Date: 11 01 1960
Description: A scene at the Wisconsin Neurological Foundation, 1954 East Washington Avenue, which is observing it's 10th anniversary. Multiple sclerosis patient Lorett...
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Man Wearing Robe

Date: 07 30 1915
Description: Portrait of a man sitting in a wheelchair wearing a bathrobe, holding reading glasses.
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Man in Wheelchair

Date: 05 21 1912
Description: A man is sitting in a wheelchair on a platform near a doorway along the side of a building.
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Jo Ann Ulvestad Returns Home After Three-Month Polio Treatment

Date: 11 26 1957
Description: The Orris Ulvestad family members, 4309 Drexel Avenue, welcome home Jo Ann after she spent three months in a respiratory center at the University of Michig...
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Dane County American Legion Forty-and-Eight Banquet

Date: 03 28 1954
Description: At the Annual Dane County American Legion 40-and-8 banquet, they collected money for local charities. In the photograph R.C. Golden hands a check to Clyde ...
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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: A nurse standing next to a patient who is exercising at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic.
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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: Two women from Illinois at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic. One woman is pushing the other woman who is sitting in a wheelchair.
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81st Birthday party for "Auntie" Benson

Date: 07 03 1957
Description: Madison General Hospital nurses singing "Happy Birthday" to Gunda Benson, who is seated in her wheelchair and surrounded by the group.
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Madison Restaurant Association Meeting

Date: 04 28 1954
Description: Chatting after dinner are three family members associated with Tiedeman's drugstore: sitting (left to right) are Margaret Tiedeman and Evelyn Tiedeman; and...
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Polio Victim Returns Home After Treatment

Date: 05 22 1957
Description: Robert Jensen, 24 of McFarland, is sitting in a wheelchair after exiting an airplane following a flight from Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he was treated for ...
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Helping Hand

Date: 07 27 1989
Description: A man is helping another man, who is in a wheelchair, to pass a basketball. Caption reads: "HELPING HAND — Greg Birmingham, coordinator of the Easter Seal ...
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Ricky Chones

Date: 06 27 1989
Description: A man in a wheelchair is passing a basketball to someone in the foreground. Caption reads: "The Waukesha Park and Recreation Department, in cooperation wit...
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Visiting in a Hospital

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Description: Two women in a hospital corridor. The woman on the left is sitting in a wheelchair reading a book, with one of her feet in a "boot." She is wearing a hospi...
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Group Portrait of People in the Home of Amos Elliot

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Description: Indoor group portrait of five European American woman posing sitting and standing, and a European American man posing sitting around a large table. The man...
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29th Wisconsin Infantry Volunteers

Date: 08 1889
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...
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Woman in a Wheelchair

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Description: Portrait of a woman sitting in a wheelchair indoors.
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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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Couple in Wheelchairs

Date: 2013
Description: A married couple, Carrie and Prentice Vaughn, riding together into the distance in their wheelchairs on the sidewalk on 7th Street. On the right is a large...

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