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Hospital Patients Waiting to Meet Walt Kelly

Date: 09 26 1952
Description: Male patients at the Veterans Hospital waiting in a hall to meet cartoonist Walt Kelly while he was visiting on a book tour.
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Walt Kelly on Book Tour

Date: 09 26 1952
Description: Cartnoonist Walt Kelly draws one of his famous cartoon characters for an audience of veterans at the Veterans Hospital.
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Veterans Administration Hospital Dedication

Date: 09 16 1951
Description: Dr. Morris Thomas, left, manager of the new Veterans Administration Hospital in Madison, greets Major General Carl R. Gray, Jr., administrator of veterans ...
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Baseball Stars Tour Veterans Hospital

Date: 01 28 1954
Description: Robert (Red) Wilson (left), one of Wisconsin's all-time football and baseball greats and a catcher for the Chicago White Sox, acts as catcher behind bat ho...
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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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We Saw You Entertaining VA Patients

Date: 12 19 1960
Description: The women's chapter of B'nai B'rith took care of the entertainment of patients and guests at the VA hospital on Christmas morning. Alma Sweet, longtime lia...
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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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Veterans Hospital

Date: 05 11 1961
Description: Wisconsin legislators visit the Veterans Hospital in Madison.
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Hospital Employes and Fair Share Boosters

Date: 10 01 1965
Description: Indoor portrait of Orvella Jones (standing), a practical nurse, and Vera Neff, a hospital secretary. They were both employees of the Veterans Administratio...
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Veterans Administration Hospital

Date: 1963
Description: Exterior view of a VA Hospital from across a lawn with small trees.
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Angio-cardiogram X-ray Camera

Date: 10 1955
Description: Slightly elevated view of medical staff examining an angio-cardiograph X-ray camera are (from left): Yvonne Traeder, an X-ray technician; Dr. I.A. Krystose...

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