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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 State Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1872
Description: Front view of the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute), a large stone building five stories high with a porthole windo...
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Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1872
Description: Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental health Institute) is seen in the distance in this long view from across cornfields.
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Dane County Asylum

Date: 09 06 1951
Description: Exterior view of the Dane County Asylum (or hospital) with people sitting on a bench in front.
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Conditions at Mendota State Hospital

Date: 02 06 1947
Description: A woman patient at the Mendota State Hospital (Mendota Mental Health Institute) who is restrained in her bed by a camisole, which prevents the use of her a...
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Dr. August Sauthoff

Date: 12 18 1947
Description: Dr. August Sauthoff, clinical director and assistant superintendent of Mendota State Hospital, retired January 31, 1948 at the age of 72.(Mendota Mental He...
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Dr. Walter J. Urben

Date: 01 28 1948
Description: Portrait of Dr. Walter J. Urben, newly appointed superintendent of Mendota State hospital, who started work on Sunday Feb. 1st 1948. He was previously dire...
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Dr. Walter Urben

Date: 02 11 1948
Description: Dr. Walter Urben, superintendent of Mendota State Hospital, shown examining an X-ray machine that is part of the equipment of the Veterans Administration h...
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Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross

Date: 11 01 1948
Description: Mrs. J.H. Svendsen, a volunteer Gray Lady of the Dane County Red Cross, shown tending patient's plants in the greenhouse at the Mendota hopsital for the me...
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Lions Club Collecting Musical Instruments

Date: 04 23 1952
Description: G.I. Wallace and Clarence Graham looking over some of the discarded musical instruments donated to the state-wide project collecting musical instruments fo...
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Wisconsin Diagnostic Center

Date: 09 01 1954
Description: Two young girls finger paint in the occupational therapy room at the Wisconsin Diagnostic Center, 1552 University Avenue, for the intensive study of mental...

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