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Crippled Children Fire Drill

Date: 11 28 1932
Description: Crippled children in a fire drill at Longfellow School, 1002 Chandler Street. Greenbush Neighborhood. "They emerge in two orderly files, one for the most a...
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Fire Fighter's Diploma

Date: 1869
Description: Diploma awarded to fire fighter James Richard Cummings for his service to Madison in 1869. The diploma is illustrated with scenes of fire fighting heroics,...
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Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1872
Description: View of Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute).
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Wisconsin General Nurses Entering Military Service

Date: 03 29 1945
Description: Fifteen nurses from Wisconsin General Hospital, who are entering military service, standing in front of a plaque reading: "1920-1924 A memorial to those wh...
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Quisling Clinic

Date: 1958
Description: View of the Quisling Medical Clinic, 2 West Gorham Street, in use between 1946 and 1998. Remodeled into the Quisling Terrace Apartments in 2000. The clinic...
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Madison General Hospital

Date: 1918
Description: An exterior view of the new wing, added in 1912, to Madison General Hospital (all demolished). Madison General Hospital merged with Methodist Hospital and ...
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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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National Civil Defense Week

Date: 08 26 1956
Description: Shown in this simulation of the scene of a catastrophe is one of nine mobile medical teams which Madison can furnish to the State Civil Defense Mobile Medi...
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St. Mary's School of Nursing Class

Date: 04 09 1961
Description: Fifty-two students at St. Mary's School of Nursing who received their nurses' caps in a ceremony at St. James Catholic Church.
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Madison General Hospital School of Nursing Class of 1963

Date: 06 14 1961
Description: Forty-three nursing students in the Madison General Hospital School of Nursing Class of 1963 begin the two-year clinical phase of their nursing education. ...
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Lorenz Hall, Mendota State Hospital

Date: 08 1955
Description: Lorenz Hall at Mendota State Hospital. The lake is in the distance.
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Mendota State Hospital Baseball Team

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Description: A group portrait, on the lawn in front of a building, of the Mendota State Hospital baseball team in uniform.
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Mendota State Hospital Employees

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Description: Employees of the Mendota State Hospital posing outdoors in front of a tree.
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New Neighborhood House

Date: 10 28 1965
Description: View of the new Neighborhood House at 29 S. Mills Street taken from the intersection of S. Mills and Milton Streets. It was dedicated Oct. 31, 1965. The ...
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Dane County Association of Health Councils Officers

Date: 10 16 1958
Description: The newly elected officers of the Dane County Association of Health Councils. Left to right are: Mrs. Robert C. Pooley, Madison; Mrs. George Mitchell, Sun ...
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Surgical Hospital

Date: 02 07 1913
Description: Text on front reads: "Stoughton Surgical Hospital, Stoughton, Wis." Two women are standing on the porch and a man and two more women are standing on the si...

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