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| Description: | Woman posing sitting in a chair and holding a cane in the yard of a house, probably Mrs. Hassel Phillips. |
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| Description: | A woman in dark glasses, who is a resident of Dane County Hospital and Home, reads a book in Braille as her therapist looks on. |
| Date: | 11 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Women in a neighborhood near Dean Avenue study sign language so that more deaf women can join their homemakers club. Chatting through sign language are, le... |
| Date: | 11 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Women in a neighborhood near Dean Avenue study sign language so that more deaf women can join their homemakers' club. Mrs. Gordon Mather, left, gives the s... |
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| Description: | On left: Woman posed sitting in a chair and holding a cane in the yard of a house, probably Mrs. Hassel Phillips. On right: Studio portrait of two young gi... |
| Date: | 09 17 1952 |
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| Description: | Pauline Rehder working in the Heart Kitchen at Madison Vocational and Adult School. The Heart Kitchen, for women with heart disease, allows the cook to wo... |
| Date: | 10 20 1961 |
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| Description: | Several men and women patients from Mendota State Hospital are watching the bears at the Vilas Park Zoo. A volunteer took them for the outing in her person... |
| Date: | 09 17 1952 |
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| Description: | The "heart kitchen," a new kitchen designed to show women with heart trouble how to cut their work in half, recently constructed in the Madison Vocational ... |
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| Description: | View across road towards a man and woman posing standing behind a picket fence in front of a frame house. The man appears to be holding a cane in his left ... |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait of an elderly woman and a crossed left eye. She is wearing a lace collar with a pin at the neck. |
| Date: | 12 31 1948 |
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| Description: | Men and women seated around a banquet dinner table. Several people are sitting in wheelchairs, and there are crutches leaning against the wall. A group of ... |
| Date: | 01 24 1957 |
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| Description: | Women assist with arrangements for the spring fair presented by the Dane County Homecrafters (adult handicapped persons). Seated left to right: Mina Dutton... |
| Date: | 09 14 1965 |
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| Description: | Ella Rodefer is shown in her wheelchair at a table with others during their twice weekly coffee hour and social at the Colonial Manor Nursing Home. |
| Date: | 03 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Elsie Smavy (right), bedridden in her seventh year of polio and with limited movement in her lower arms, creates embroidery. Her children, Molly, 7, and Ni... |
| Date: | 11 01 1960 |
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| Description: | A scene at the Wisconsin Neurological Foundation, 1954 East Washington Avenue, which is observing it's 10th anniversary. Multiple sclerosis patient Lorett... |
| Date: | 03 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Mary Ann O'Loughlen sits at her desk in the State Office building where she is employed as a typist by the Traveling Library Department, Free Library Commi... |
| Date: | 03 31 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Georgia Phillips leads boys of the primary classes in group singing at the orthopedic department at Washington School, 545 West Dayton Street. |
| Date: | 11 27 1949 |
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| Description: | W. Jerome & Dora Higgins celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary with a cake in their home at 316 Grand Avenue. Jerry Higgins is blind and runs the newsst... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Students and adults of the State School for the Blind pose for a group portrait in front of the building. |
| Date: | 08 20 1957 |
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| Description: | The Jaycettes are completing plans for their annual fashion show at the Memorial Union Theater. Mrs. Ben Prochaska is the general chairman of a group of el... |
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