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Sun Parlor for Tuberculosis Patients

Date: 1912
Description: Colorized view of a sun parlor at the pavilion for tuberculosis cases at the Milwaukee Hospital for the Insane.
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Tuberculosis Ward at River Pines Sanatorium

Date: 1908
Description: Snow-filled porch at the River Pines Tuberculosis Sanitorium.
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Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association Exhibit

Date: 1925
Description: Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association exhibit advertised in the storefront of a building in New London, Wisconsin. Two women are looking through the wind...
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Anti-Tuberculosis Railway Exhibit

Date: 1906
Description: 1904 Exhibit of the Maryland Association for the Prevention and Relief of Tuberculosis, in a railway coach. Photograph taken in Milwaukee.
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Anti-Tuberculosis Traveling Exhibit

Date: 1935
Description: Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association traveling health exhibit. Long bus with Tuberculosis information displayed and a crowd gathered.
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Sabin Oral Vaccine

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Description: A nurse gives children the sabin oral vaccine.
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Girl in Iron Lung

Date: 1957
Description: A nurse holding a mirror so that the photographer can see the face of a girl in an iron lung. Hanging from the machine are a number of greeting cards. The ...
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Weighing and Measuring Campaign, Lincoln School

Date: 1918
Description: Seven women in white uniforms measuring five children, including one infant. Caption reads: "Lincoln School, Madison, Wis. Weighing and Measuring Campaign ...
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Baby Clinic and Rest Tent, Dane County Fair

Date: 08 1918
Description: Three women in nurse's uniforms are standing in a tent, where several children and women are seated on chairs. Displays of cribs, cloths (possibly diapers)...
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Public Health Clinic, Town of Lake

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Description: Two men are checking children with stethoscopes, another man is looking into a girl's mouth, and two women are writing in notepads. Other women and many ch...

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