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Deaf Children in the Classroom

Date: 10 30 1931
Description: Four deaf children are sitting at a table playing at life experiences at Doty School. Sentences on the blackboard describe their activity to help them lear...
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Longfellow School Disabled Students

Date: 10 30 1931
Description: Disabled students with crutches, wheelchairs and other aids for locomotion holding a club meeting at Longfellow School in the Greenbush neighborhood.
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"Crippled" Children in Bus

Date: 12 27 1930
Description: Disabled children in Hillington bus going to a free show at the Capitol Theatre. The bus driver and another man are standing beside the bus.
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Tommy Manning

Date: 02 18 1953
Description: Joan Kain, speech therapist, helps Tommy Manning, age 3, who has cerebral palsy, learn to talk by showing him objects on a display board. It is part of hi...
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David Lindl

Date: 03 14 1955
Description: David Lindl, who has muscular dystrophy, shown with a physical therapist. David is one of many handicapped persons who is helped by the sale of Easter Seal...
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Governor Goodland with Handicapped Children

Date: 04 15 1944
Description: Governor Walter Goodland seated with handicapped children, probably in a movie theater. A large cutout of Dopey, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, is o...
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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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March of Dimes Wheelchair Race

Date: 02 09 1948
Description: Members of the Junior Chamber of Commerce south team, who took part in the "Race for Dimes" to raise money for the March of Dimes. Standing left to right: ...
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Washington School Hearing Clinic

Date: 07 15 1948
Description: Participants in a large-scale hearing clinic held at Washington School in Madison and sponsored by the University of Wisconsin departments of speech and ed...
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University of Wisconsin Summer Speech Clinic

Date: 08 11 1948
Description: Five children outdoors blowing bubbles in front of their teacher, Betty Suliver, at the summer speech clinic at the Orthopedic Hospital, 1415 Linden Drive....
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Sorority Christmas Party for Children

Date: 12 14 1948
Description: Two Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority members with group of children from the Washington Orthopedic School during a Christmas party. Sorority members are at left,...
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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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Children in Foster Care

Date: 03 21 1950
Description: Under the eye of Esther Ruf and her daughter Karen, second from right, four handicapped children in foster care enjoy some games.
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Johnnie Potter

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Description: Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Johnnie Potter standing in uniform. He is standing next to a table, and there is a sword on his left side. The boy ...
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March of Dimes Campaign

Date: 12 31 1951
Description: 20-month-old Beverly Smith standing while wearing braces on her lower legs and holding the finger of her mother, Mrs. Eugene Smith.
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March of Dimes Campaign

Date: 12 31 1951
Description: Warren Anderson, age 7, former polio sufferer, is shown sitting in an upholstered chair with his cat, Sam. Warren was saved by his 14-year-old sister, Caro...
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Two Boys Looking at Packers Window Display

Date: 12 29 1961
Description: Two young boys, one with Loftstrand-style crutches most likely due to polio, are looking at a window display. The Packers were about to play for, and would...
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March of Dimes

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Brown and their three children. Russell, right, is still fighting the effects of his paralysis from polio; he pins a Mother...
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March of Dimes

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Portrait of five-year-old Lynn Stenrud with her mother Mrs. Ingvald Stenrud (middle), and Mrs. Robert Huehel (right), all from Deerfield. Lynn is wearing a...
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March of Dimes

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Group portrait of Joyce and Norbert Plewke with their daughter, Pamela, who recently recovered from polio. Mrs. Plewke will participate in the upcoming Mot...

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