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Reading Braille

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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.
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In the Uranium Tunnel

Date: 1954
Description: Men and women seated on benches along both walls of Kenneth Crook's Uranium Tunnel in Lone Rock. Note the uranium pads visitors hold in their laps or on th...
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"Tranquilizers Restore Lives"

Date: 12 11 1964
Description: In the foreground, a woman's arms, with a bracelet and wristwatch. In one hand she is holding a large bottle of pills, and is pouring the pills into the ot...
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U.S. Army Students at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Date: 02 18 1949
Description: Captain Olena Cole of the army nurse corps is doing graduate work in physical therapy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is posed by a large medic...
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Music Therapy Session

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Description: A music therapist (wearing a scarf on her head) leads a group of elderly residents of the Dane County Home in a music therapy session.
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Therapy at Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital

Date: 11 06 1947
Description: Two young male patients and an occupational therapist doing an activity at the Wisconsin Orthodpedic Hospital, 1415 Linden Drive.
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St. Mary's Hospital Neuropsychiatric Treatment Center Dedication

Date: 03 21 1957
Description: Dr. Edward Bruckner, pathologist, Sister Mary Seraphia, S.S.M., administrator of the hospital, and Eleanor DeMeuse, supervisor nurse, conferring in the gla...
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Tuberculosis Patient

Date: 11 15 1949
Description: Doris Trameri of 568 Park Lane, previously diagnosed with tuberculosis, posing in her former room at Lake View Sanatorium while knitting argyle socks. She ...
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United Givers' Fund Red Feather Services

Date: 10 15 1957
Description: Mrs. Janice Stovall, executive director of HEAR (Hearing, Education, and Rehabilitation) practices lip movements in front of a mirror with young client Mic...
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Dr. Robert West

Date: 03 24 1950
Description: Dr. Robert West, director of the University of Wisconsin speech clinic, was honored at a luncheon by the members of the Wisconsin Speech Correction Associa...
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Polio Resistance Exerciser

Date: 10 16 1951
Description: Crowds of shoppers watch the demonstration of a polio resistance exerciser held in a store display window. Dick Murphy, captain of the U.W. boxing team, is...
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St. Mary's Hospital Neuropsychiatric Treatment Center Dedication

Date: 03 21 1957
Description: The original caption states: "here, trying out the comfortable setting of the patients' living room are Irene Gruendler, Sister Mary of the Angels, Mary El...
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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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Easter Seals Beneficiaries

Date: 03 15 1954
Description: Margaret Fliegel holds a book while sitting on her bed in front of an anatomy chart. She was a senior physical therapy student and a Easter Seal grant rec...
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Careers in Mental Health

Date: 04 26 1959
Description: Mrs. A. Newel Whitney, an occupational therapist at Mendota State Hospital, is shown helping a patient lace together sections of a leather purse as part of...
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Sertoma Club Gifts for Wisconsin Central Colony

Date: 01 06 1961
Description: Young patients at Wisconsin Central Colony play on one of the slides recently donated by the Sertoma Club. Watching and assisting the children are William ...
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March of Dimes Campaign

Date: 12 31 1951
Description: Ann E. Boberschmidt, Edgewood College sophomore, is shown wearing a necklace and sweater. She was stricken with polio in November of 1945, paralysing her l...
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Madison Woman's Club with Dolls

Date: 12 10 1947
Description: Madison Woman's Club members presenting 50 dolls to Orthopedic Hospital (Children's Hospital, a part of Wisconsin General Hospital). L to R: Mary E. Seybol...
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Careers in Mental Health

Date: 04 26 1959
Description: Miss Sydney Auer, a clinical psychologist, meets with children at the Dane County Child Guidance center, often talking with them through play. She is shown...
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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: A nurse standing next to a patient who is exercising at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic.

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