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Woman in Wheelchair Bowling

Date: 02 14 1953
Description: Woman sitting in a wheelchair bowling.
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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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Sign Language Class

Date: 11 15 1954
Description: Women in a neighborhood near Dean Avenue are studying sign language so that more deaf women can join their homemakers' club. Mrs. Robert Ilten is greeted i...
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Sign Language Class

Date: 11 15 1954
Description: Women in a neighborhood near Dean Avenue study sign language so that more deaf women can join their homemakers' club. Mrs. James Stockton studies the sign ...
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Trump Supporters Waiting for the Rally

Date: 08 05 2016
Description: Slightly elevated view of three women waiting in a crowd for the Trump rally to begin. One woman in the center is holding onto a walker and is wearing a pi...
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Ho-Chunk Man and Woman near Winter Lodge

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Description: A Ho-Chunk man and woman posing standing in front of a Ho-Chunk winter lodge. The man is reportedly blind. In the background there is a horse and snow on t...
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North Frances Street Scene

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Description: A woman is leading two men along the sidewalk past the Towers Apartment building on N. Frances Street. Michael's Shoe Service storefront is in the backgrou...
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Red Cross Sewing Circle

Date: 12 07 1932
Description: Seven women from the Social Service Department of the Woman's Club sewing for the Red Cross in the lounge of the Woman's Club, 240 W. Gilman Street.
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WKOW-TV Telethon

Date: 09 12 1953
Description: Fourteen men and women (one in a wheelchair) sitting around a dining table in a restaurant (Hoffman House?) as part of the WKOW-TV telethon (?).
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Student Nurse Week

Date: 10 07 1957
Description: Student nurses in Madison take part in a state-wide aid project at various hospitals and welfare centers during Student Nurse Week. Susan Miller of Methodi...
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Polio Survivors Value March of Dimes

Date: 12 28 1954
Description: Mrs. Arnold (Elizabeth) Griswold sitting in a wheelchair beside her family. She was diagnosed with polio in 1949.
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Institute for the Deaf and Dumb

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Description: Engraved view of the building with several pedestrians and a horse-drawn carriage in the foreground.
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Student Nurse Week

Date: 10 07 1957
Description: Methodist hospital student nurses Karolyn McCauley (left) and Mary Bach (right) join in a card game with Robert Lloyd of Janesville and Jack Durham (in a w...
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Helen Herrick, University League

Date: 09 28 1954
Description: Portrait of Helen Herrick, Social Chairman of the University League.
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Ron Bernhard Family

Date: 01 1987
Description: "The Ron Bernhard family, seated, who lost their young daughter, received aid from AAL Insurance of Appleton. Representatives are in back."
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Tea to Honor Helen Fairchild

Date: 10 09 1957
Description: Attending a tea in honor of Helen E., wife of Edward T. Fairchild, former chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court are, left to right, Gladys, wife of ...
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Wisconsin Steel Booth at Blind Veterans Show

Date: 1947
Description: A blind(?) man operates a piece of machinery behind a table in a display booth at the "blind veterans show." The booth is labeled "International Harvester'...
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Polio Survivors Value March of Dimes

Date: 12 27 1954
Description: Mrs. Judith Lokken, a grandmother of three, was diagnosed with polio in August 1954 but is now virtually recovered.
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Give 'till It Helps...Yes, Someone Cares

Date: 10 1961
Description: First Friend Volunteer of the Dane County Mental Health Association is one of 29 of the United Givers agencies. This agency helps mentally ill persons make...
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Philip John Dumbleton

Date: 07 25 1944
Description: Philip John Dumbleton, his mother Mrs. Ruth Dumbleton, and client Bernadyne Hogan photographed in one of two beauty shops he owns. Mr. Dumbleton who is bl...

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