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Dane County Court House "Telephone Girls"

Date: 11 02 1933
Description: Dane County Court House "telephone girls" at the new switchboard. Sitting at the switchboard is Madge Albright, and in the rear is Bernadine Plachy and Mar...
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Wendell Willkie and Aaron Martin Brayton

Date: 03 1944
Description: Wendell Willkie visits with Aaron Martin Brayton, retired editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, on his bed in a local hospital room during Willkie'...
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Wisconsin General Hospital Interview of Patient

Date: 05 26 1947
Description: Patient being interviewed by nurse, at the State of Wisconsin General Hospital, 1300 University Avenue. For the State Medical Board of Health.
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Hospital Room

Date: 1930
Description: Posed view of a patient room in the recently constructed Methodist Hospital, showing a nurse on the telephone near a bed, and a doctor and elderly patient ...
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Nurses' Station

Date: 1930
Description: Posed view of a nurses' station in the recently-constructed Methodist Hospital
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Teen Summer Jobs

Date: 08 09 1950
Description: Charlene Schaefer, East High School 1950 graduate, is shown operating the telephone switch board at Lake View Sanatorium.
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Madison General Hospital Addition

Date: 07 14 1952
Description: Interior view of a private furnished room in the new addition to Madison General Hospital. 196 beds are being added to the hospital's capacity.
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Recruiting Polio Emergency Volunteers

Date: 06 18 1953
Description: Jean Welsch uses the telephone to recruit volunteers for the Polio Emergency Volunteer training course. At her side is her son Bobby, age 3 1/2 years, who ...
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Stay-At-Home Mothers

Date: 05 03 1954
Description: Mary Heine wraps a bandage around the leg of her daughter Sally, age 8. The photograph was taken as part of a Mother's Day article featuring the many roles...
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Polio Survivors Value March of Dimes

Date: 12 27 1954
Description: Mrs. Judith Lokken, a grandmother of three, was diagnosed with polio in August 1954 but is now virtually recovered.
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Polio Survivors Value March of Dimes

Date: 12 28 1954
Description: Everett L. Liddicoat, an insurance agent and 4-year veteran of the Army Air Corps, was diagnosed with polio in 1949.
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Telephone Survey About Cancer

Date: 03 14 1958
Description: Members of the Dane County Medical Society, the Methodist Hospital Nurses' Alumnae Association, and the Dane County Unit of the American Cancer Society pre...
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Telephone Pioneers Aid Hospital Unit

Date: 01 25 1960
Description: Southwest Wisconsin Council of the Telephone Pioneers of America, as their community service project, present a piano to the Children's Unit of University ...
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March of Dimes Campaign

Date: 01 22 1964
Description: Dick Collman, soliciting contributions by telephone, is one of the "Polio Pioneers" celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Salk vaccine trial by helping w...
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You Can't Keep Veterinarian Down on Farm

Date: 05 19 1954
Description: Veterinarian Dr. R.H. Romaker taking a call from one of his clients.
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Home Bound Gentleman Using a Typewriter

Date: 12 06 1954
Description: A bed-ridden man working from home. Laying in a hospital bed set up in his living room, he is using a typewriter that that is sitting on a table between a ...
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Careers in Mental Health

Date: 04 26 1959
Description: Agnes Moore, a psychiatric nurse-in-training, is shown at University Hospital studying the medical report of a patient.

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