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| 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: | 03 14 1955 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 15 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 27 1944 |
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| Description: | Left to right: Rufus Wells, associated with Roundy's Fun Fund; Dr. L.E. Holmgren, president of the Dane County unit of the WAD (Wisconsin Association for t... |
| Date: | 11 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Joseph "Roundy" Coughlin shown with a group of children at Washington School as part of his charity fund raising for "Roundy's Fun Fund." |
| Date: | 12 18 1947 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 07 15 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 15 1948 |
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| 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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| Description: | Robert S. Allen, a well-known journalist who lost his arm while serving during World War II, purchases Easter Seals from a handicapped girl. Allen was act... |
| 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: | 01 18 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 18 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 18 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Cummings of Waunakee and their five children. The four older children put money in a contribution container for the Mothers' March... |
| Date: | 02 13 1959 |
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| Description: | In 1958, Roundy's Fun Fund took in more than $9,600. The money is used to provide fun activities for handicapped children. Members of Roundy's Fun Fund com... |
| Date: | 01 08 1960 |
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| Description: | Roundy's Fun Fund collected $10,362, breaking all records. Members of the Roundy's Fun Fund committee receiving the check from Roundy (Joseph L. Coughlin),... |
| Date: | 11 20 1963 |
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| Description: | Sen. Edward Kennedy, left, chats with Betty Jane Martin, 6, who was representing Madison area mentally disabled children, as Gov. John Reynolds, right, lea... |
| Date: | 01 30 1964 |
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| Description: | More than 370 friends of Katherine Wells are actively engaged in a project to fulfill a dream of Mrs. Wells, who is seriously ill. The committee is trying ... |
| Date: | 12 11 1964 |
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| Description: | William Grab, age 12, learning to walk with the help of his mother, a boy, and a walker seven months after being crushed when a two-ton culvert rolled over... |
| Date: | 01 14 1965 |
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| Description: | Bowlers are asked to donate 50 cents to enter the annual March of Dimes bowling competition. Shown left to right, are: Chuck Atkins, Maureen Richman, Lori ... |
| Date: | 08 1973 |
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| Description: | Governor Pat Lucey signing Chapter 115 ensuring public education for children with disabilities as parents, children and others look on. Midge Miller stand... |
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