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| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Arthur Altmeyer standing at a blackboard speaking at the Salzburg seminar in American studies. Arthur J. Altmeyer (1891–1972) was the United States Commi... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Arthur Altmeyer poses with the other 19 members of the United Automobile Workers Advisory Committee on Guaranteed Annual Wage. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Arthur Altmeyer speaking at the Inter-American Conference on Social Security, which took place in Buenes Aires. Eva Peron is seated to his left, wearing he... |
| Date: | 04 11 1965 |
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| Description: | A hospital patient plays a scrabble game with an occupational therapist. |
| Date: | 05 19 1887 |
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| Description: | External view of the National Soldiers' Home with a cannon on the lawn in the foreground. |
| Date: | 04 17 1957 |
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| Description: | An elderly woman, Josephine Fell, is the "adopted grandmother" to a Girl Scout that visits her and works with her on a puzzle at Rosemary's Nursing Home in... |
| Date: | 10 17 1968 |
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| Description: | An elderly man and woman make new cane seats for chairs at the Cedar Lake Home for the Aged. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | This building, on an entire block of Spaight and Brearly Streets with Lake Monona, was originally the governor's mansion for Leonard J. Farwell. The Farwel... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Office of the State Board of Control of Wisconsin Reformatory, Charitable and Penal Institutions in the third Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Fair-goers stand in line to enter the W.P.A. Exhibit tent at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Zintka Lanuni ("Lost Bird") Colby, a Lakota, who as an infant survived the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1891. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Dane County Home for the Aged. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Dane County Poorhouse. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the main building, with a lightpost in the foreground. A sign on the building reads: "Wisconsin Institution for the Deaf & Dumb." Caption reads: "... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of School for the Deaf. School also called State Institute for the Deaf and Dumb. Walker Hall, which is on the right, was added to the school... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Masonic Home, surrounded by a lawn and trees. There are two flagpoles along a driveway leading around the building. Caption reads: "Ma... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A large gathering of men and women stand outside the Odd Fellow's Home. There is a flagpole on the grounds with an American Flag among trees. People are po... |
| Date: | 11 10 1905 |
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| Description: | A group of people are in a motorboat, named "Quo Vadis,, in the lake in front of St. Joseph's orphan asylum. Caption reads: "St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, Gr... |
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| Description: | Interior view of Soldiers Home dining room with tables set with dishes. |
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