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Toto the Clown with Children

Date: 03 18 1932
Description: RKO clown "Toto" distributes cardboard Easter bunnies packed with lollipops from the W.T. Grant Company. This event was held in the 2nd floor playroom at U...
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Junior Red Cross War Related Activities

Date: 08 15 1945
Description: Junior Red Cross members making Christmas tree decorations for military service units and hospitals overseas. Arline Whitefoot, on the right, assists a you...
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Madison Woman's Club

Date: 02 10 1948
Description: Madison Woman's Club members, left to right, Mrs. John C. Sammis, Mrs. George R. Holdhusen, Mrs. Leslie F. Van Hagan, and Mrs. Edward N. Hein are shown giv...
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L.A. Toner Cutting Cake

Date: 01 17 1949
Description: L.A. Toner,of Miami, Florida, is shown in his Wisconsin General hospital bed cutting his surprise birthday chocolate cake as his wife looks on. Mrs. Toner ...
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Baseball Stars Tour Veterans Hospital

Date: 01 28 1954
Description: University of Wisconsin sports alumni and professional baseball players "Red" Wilson and Harvey Kuenn take a tour through the Veterans Hospital, talking an...
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Eddie Paulus

Date: 10 27 1954
Description: Eddie Paulus, outfielder for the Plain, Wisconsin baseball team, lies in a hospital bed at St. Mary's Hospital in Madison after a collision with a catcher ...
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Student Nurse Week

Date: 10 07 1957
Description: Methodist Hospital student nurse Sandra Sheller writes a letter home for patient Ray Zimmerman from Murphysboro, Illinois. She is taking part in the state-...
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Santa Visits Children at Hospital

Date: 12 21 1959
Description: 3-year-old Mary Anderson (right) listens to Santa Claus at a party sponsored by the Madison Firefighters Union Local 311.
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Santa Visits Children at Hospital

Date: 12 21 1959
Description: Martha Nelson (right) of Oxford looks on as Mary Anderson examines a toy nurse's kit she received from Santa Claus.
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Santa Visits Children at Hospital

Date: 12 21 1959
Description: Santa presents a wrapped present in striped paper to Ricky Madsen, who is wearing striped pajamas and a striped night-cap. There is a Christmas tree in the...
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Santa Visits Children at Hospital

Date: 12 21 1959
Description: Santa autographs an above the knee full leg cast worn by Deborah Sosinsky as she looks on from her wheelchair.
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Gifts For Neurological Patients

Date: 09 29 1960
Description: Pauline Dubner, a patient at the Wisconsin Neurological Foundation, poses in her hospital bed next to a new record player in a case. Behind her stand the f...
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We Saw You Entertaining VA Patients

Date: 12 19 1960
Description: B'nai B'rith women provide coffee and cookies for patients and their families and friends on Christmas Day at the VA Hospital. Edith Rubenstein is shown gi...
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We Saw You Entertaining VA Patients

Date: 12 19 1960
Description: B'nai B'rith women help entertain patients at the VA Hospital on Christmas Day. Ruth Glucksman is shown supervising a game with patients "Dutch" Parkman (...
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We Saw You Entertaining VA Patients

Date: 12 19 1960
Description: B'nai B'rith women entertain patients at the VA Hospital on Christmas Day. Martha Barth and Geraldine Netboy are shown serving cookies to patients Lyle Str...
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Easter Baskets for Sanatorium Patients

Date: 04 01 1961
Description: Kathy Jahnke and Florence Bunbury, members of Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority, present Easter baskets to youthful patients at Morningside Sanatorium.
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Madison Firefighter Santa Visits Methodist Hospital Pediatrics Ward

Date: 12 16 1964
Description: The Madison Firefighters' Union Local 311 Santa visiting the Methodist Hospital pediatrics ward for the annual Christmas party. Shown with Santa is Ricky W...
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81st Birthday party for "Auntie" Benson

Date: 07 03 1957
Description: Madison General Hospital nurses singing "Happy Birthday" to Gunda Benson, who is seated in her wheelchair and surrounded by the group.
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Easter Baskets for Child Tuberculosis Patients

Date: 04 05 1958
Description: Three members of the Alpha Xi chapter of Epsilon Sigma Alpha sorority delivered Easter baskets to the young tuberculosis patients at the Morningside sanato...
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Neurological Hospital Observes Anniversary

Date: 11 01 1960
Description: A scene at the Wisconsin Neurological Foundation, 1954 East Washington Avenue, which is observing it's 10th anniversary. Patient Jim Markl, Watertown, WI, ...

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