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Madison's 1958 Red Measles Season

Date: 04 11 1958
Description: Madison's 1958 measles season started with Kurt Tezlaff, at right, then went to Kaye Kennan, then to Kevin Kennan and then to Wendy Kennan. In the Kennan f...
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Madison's 1958 Red Measles Season

Date: 04 11 1958
Description: The 1958 red measles season has started in Madison. Marilyn Kelso, her son Robbie Kelso, seated on her lap, and son Tom Kelso, on the right, received gamma...
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Red Cross Aided Child

Date: 06 10 1959
Description: Donald and Audrey Forrer posing outdoors with their 7-year-old daughter Lydia, pictured riding a bicycle. The Red Cross provided the blood transfusions tha...
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Santa Visits Children at Hospital

Date: 12 21 1959
Description: 3-year-old Mary Anderson (right) listens to Santa Claus at a party sponsored by the Madison Firefighters Union Local 311.
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Santa Visits Children at Hospital

Date: 12 21 1959
Description: Martha Nelson (right) of Oxford looks on as Mary Anderson examines a toy nurse's kit she received from Santa Claus.
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Santa Visits Children at Hospital

Date: 12 21 1959
Description: Santa presents a wrapped present in striped paper to Ricky Madsen, who is wearing striped pajamas and a striped night-cap. There is a Christmas tree in the...
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Santa Visits Children at Hospital

Date: 12 21 1959
Description: Santa autographs an above the knee full leg cast worn by Deborah Sosinsky as she looks on from her wheelchair.
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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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Monona Grove Red Cross Bloodmobile Co-Chairman with Two Babies

Date: 02 19 1960
Description: Beth Gehrke, R.N., Monona village's co-chairman for the Monona Grove Red Cross Bloodmobile, is shown holding and gazing upon two three month old babies. Th...
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Middleton Scouts Make Blocks for Madison General Hospital

Date: 12 1960
Description: Scouts from Middleton Troop 40 sand wooden blocks to give to the pediatric section of Madison General Hospital. The wood was donated by Fish Lumber Co., Mi...
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Gifts for Children at Morningside Sanatorium

Date: 12 13 1960
Description: Members of the East Side Women's Club bring gifts to the club's Christmas party for the children at the Morningside Sanatorium, a tuberculosis treatment ce...
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Hanukkah, Jewish Festival of Lights, Begins

Date: 12 14 1965
Description: Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights, begins at the Temple Beth El. Sixth graders from the temple start the festival by giving gifts to children in the ...
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Tiny Baby Kristin Nadings Beats Odds to Celebrate 1st Birthday

Date: 12 15 1965
Description: Kristin Nadings, daughter of Air Force Capt. and Mrs. Elvin Nadings, Sun Prairie, born prematurely at one pound, six and one half ounces on December 15, 19...
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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: Staff member Dr. M.O. Kepler looking into the ear of little Sara Willey at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic. Her hair is braided.
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New Born Girl Lee Ann Steele

Date: 08 13 1955
Description: Baby girl Lee Ann Steele born to Max & Luella Steele on August 12, 1955.
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Fostering Homeless Infants and Children

Date: 05 02 1957
Description: Foster mothers take homeless infants and children into their homes. Members of the Madison advisory board of the Children's Service Society, a Red Feather ...
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Fostering Homeless Infants and Children

Date: 05 02 1957
Description: Foster mothers take homeless infants and children into their homes. Members of the Madison advisory board of the Children's Service Society, a Red Feather ...
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Green Bay Boy Recovering from Heart Surgery

Date: 10 03 1957
Description: Jeffrey McVeigh, age 5 from Green Bay, recovering from a five-hour operation at University Hospital to repair a hole in the inner walls of his heart. He is...
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Typical Day of a Student Nurse

Date: 01 03 1958
Description: Student nurse, Mary Jo Oxem, with seven of her classmates at the bedside of a young child. They are listening to their nursing instructor, Mrs. James Sapie...
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Red Cross Gray Ladies Volunteer at the Wisconsin Diagnostic Center

Date: 03 04 1958
Description: Red Cross Gray Lady Mrs. Robert A. Judd (1115 Edgehill Drive) playing ping-pong with two teenage boy patients at the Wisconsin Diagnostic Center at 1552 Un...

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