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Nurse with Child Patient

Date: 1950
Description: Nurse with a young girl patient and a container of blood.
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Red Cross Workers

Date: 09 21 1942
Description: Large group of Red Cross Workers seated at tables, preparing surgical dressings in the assembly room at the American Federation of State, County and Local ...
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State Employees Making Surgical Dressings

Date: 08 17 1942
Description: State female employees making surgical dressings / bandages for the American Red Cross in the Wisconsin State Employees Association building, 448 W. Washin...
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Huegel-Hyland Shoe Store Interior

Date: 04 26 1934
Description: Huegel and Hyland Shoe Store, interior view, showing the x-ray machine in the background, 112 King Street. A stuffed peacock is on a shelf above the counte...
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Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane Pharmacy Dispensary

Date: 1893
Description: Pharmacy supplies are displayed in shelves in an office at the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane, lit by gas lamps hanging above the desk. (Mendota M...
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Ohio Chemical Salesmen

Date: 05 16 1950
Description: Group portrait of 25 Ohio Chemical & Surgical Equipment Company salesmen seated and standing around a table, 1400 East Washington Avenue.
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Conditions at Mendota State Hospital

Date: 02 06 1947
Description: A woman patient at the Mendota State Hospital (Mendota Mental Health Institute) who is restrained in her bed by a camisole, which prevents the use of her a...
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Cancer Dressings Project

Date: 04 09 1948
Description: Participants in the American Cancer Society Dressing project, organized by Mrs. Charles E. Hemingway, Dane County field lieutenant, are: front row, seated ...
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Eagles' Auxiliary Members Making Dressings

Date: 04 04 1950
Description: Members of the Eagles' auxiliary making dressings for cancer patients while sitting around a table at the Woman's Building. Around the table from the left ...
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Red Cross Blood Donor

Date: 09 08 1950
Description: Jules S. Jacobs sitting on a bed at the American Red Cross Regional Blood Center on East Washington Avenue after becoming the one thousandth donor at the n...
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St. Mary's Hospital Volunteers

Date: 09 19 1950
Description: The making of bandages is another hospital necessity which can be taken over by volunteer workers. Sister M. Carmelita, superintendent of S. Mary's hospita...
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 12 09 1951
Description: City Attorney Harold E. Hanson has his blood pressure taken by Mary Clancy, Red Cross blood center staff nurse.
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Red Cross Peacetime Activities

Date: 02 26 1952
Description: The work of the Red Cross in peacetime is less well publicized than its services during wartime. Their blood bank program is considered one of the most out...
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Dane County Health Council Association

Date: 09 22 1952
Description: Student Gloria Niebuhr has her eyes tested by Dane County Health Council Association volunteer Mrs. Robert Drunasky. Looking on is student Eugene Bosben.
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Mrs. Rena Gigous

Date: 04 26 1953
Description: Mrs. Rena Gigous made 200 cancer dressings in January. The dressings are displayed at Baron's and Yost Kessnichs department stores.
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Alfred Hopf as Blood Donor

Date: 09 17 1953
Description: "Alfred Hopf makes his final visit to the blood center to give his last pint of blood before his 60th birthday makes him ineligible to donate again. He is ...
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Blood Drive at St. Mary's Hospital

Date: 12 18 1953
Description: Four St. Mary's hospital nuns participate in the hospital staff blood drive. Red Cross nurse Barbara Zimmerman takes the blood pressure of Sister Mary Virg...
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Dane County Medical Society Women's Auxiliary

Date: 04 12 1955
Description: Sally Littig, chairman of the "loan closet" committee of the Women's Auxiliary of Dane County Medical Society visits with Nellie Kedzie Jones who lies in a...
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Dane County Health Council Association

Date: 09 22 1952
Description: First grade student Frank Eschler has his hearing tested by Sun Prairie Health Council chairman Mrs. Marshall Thorpe. Looking on is student Kathleen Wacket...
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Eagles Auxilary Meets to Make Cancer Dressings

Date: 05 10 1956
Description: Members of the Eagles Auxiliary meet to make cancer dressings out of used sheets.

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