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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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Mobile X-Ray Machine

Date: 08 13 1941
Description: Bus containing mobile x-ray machine with sign, "Wisconsin State Board of Health, Tuberculosis Survey." A male technician is standing beside the bus. The bu...
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Mobile X-ray Machine

Date: 08 13 1941
Description: School bus interior with a mobile x-ray machine. A male technician stands by while another man stands in front of the diagnostic unit.
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Nurse in front of Refrigerator

Date: 04 16 1935
Description: A nurse in uniform standing in front of an open refrigerator, checking vials of medicines at the Wisconsin General Hospital.
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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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Eye Exam

Date: 11 06 1933
Description: Dr. John E. Hughes, optometrist, tests a patient's vision in his office at 112 E. Main Street, using an eyeglass lens machine.
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Dr. Hughes and Eye Patient

Date: 11 06 1933
Description: Dr.John E.Hughes, optometrist, in his office at 112 E. Main Street, using eyeglass lens machine to test a woman patient's vision with advertising banners a...
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Hydro-therapy Department at Wisconsin Memorial Hospital

Date: 03 04 1932
Description: Military veterans receive therapy in hot water tubs, with George Gardner, director of the hydro-therapy department, Wisconsin Memorial Hospital on Farwell ...
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Artificial Lung Machine

Date: 01 22 1932
Description: Artificial lung machine constructed by Wisconsin General Hospital mechanic James S. Hipple. This was the first artificial respirator/oxygen chamber in Madi...
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Lake View Tuberculosis Sanitarium

Date: 04 27 1931
Description: Lake View TB Sanitarium operating room. There is a large window along the back wall.
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Chest X-Ray

Date: 09 10 1946
Description: A woman, bare from the waist up, standing at the x-ray machine as she is receiving a chest x-ray taken by an attendant at the controls at the Wisconsin Gen...
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English Drug Compounds

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Description: At the University of Wisconsin, an ornate wooden case holds a display of 18th or 19th century English drugs next to a mixing vessel used to blend the compo...
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Surgical Tools

Date: 1927
Description: Surgical instruments on display at the Wisconsin Historical Museum.
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Medicine Chest

Date: 1935
Description: A medicine chest and its contents on display at the Wisconsin Historical Museum.
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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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Wisconsin General Hospital X-ray Procedure

Date: 05 26 1947
Description: State of Wisconsin General Hospital, at 1300 University Avenue. View showing chest X-ray equipment with a patient in position for the procedure, and a tech...
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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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Ohio Chemical Salesmen

Date: 09 03 1950
Description: Group portrait of 22 salesmen for Ohio Chemical & Surgical Company sitting and standing around a table in the basement of old Fuller & Johnson building, 52...

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