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Mother and Infant

Date: 01 01 1952
Description: A mother, with a mask over her mouth and nose, lying in a bed holding an infant. This is probably the first baby born in Madison in 1952, just 5 seconds af...
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Madison General Hospital Gift Shop

Date: 01 27 1953
Description: Mrs. Garth Heisig, Arlington Heights, Illinois, purchases a silver bracelet in the Madison General Hospital Gift shop from Mrs. S.W. Sherlock, a hospital a...
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Tommy Manning

Date: 02 18 1953
Description: Joan Kain, speech therapist, helps Tommy Manning, age 3, who has cerebral palsy, learn to talk by showing him objects on a display board. It is part of hi...
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St. Mary's Hospital Graduate Nurses

Date: 07 01 1946
Description: Group portrait of the recent graduates from St. Mary's School of Nursing, shown with Sister Mary James Howard, Director of Nurses.
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Veterans Adminstration Hospital

Date: 10 10 1947
Description: Aerial view of the Wisconsin Memorial Hospital run by the Veterans Administration on the north shore of Lake Mendota on the grounds of the Mendota State Ho...
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Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital

Date: 11 06 1947
Description: Exterior view of Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital, 1415 Linden Drive.
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Nurses at Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital

Date: 11 06 1947
Description: Two nurses feeding infants at the Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital, 1415 Linden Drive.
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Children at Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital

Date: 11 06 1947
Description: A ward at the Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital, 1415 Linden Drive, showing three children in cribs, and a small table with three toddlers seated in small chai...
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Madison Woman's Club with Dolls

Date: 12 10 1947
Description: Madison Woman's Club members presenting 50 dolls to Orthopedic Hospital (Children's Hospital, a part of Wisconsin General Hospital). L to R: Mary E. Seybol...
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Leroy L. Dalton Receiving Navy Air Medal Award

Date: 07 31 1948
Description: Leroy L. Dalton, (in a hosptial bed at left) shown receiving the United States Navy Air Medal for meritorious achievement during his fifth mission as a gun...
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Leroy L. Dalton Receiving Navy Air Medal Award

Date: 07 31 1948
Description: Leroy L. Dalton,(in a hosptial bed at left,)shown receiving the United States Navy Air Medal for meritious achievement during his fifth mission as a gunne...
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L.A. Toner Cutting Cake

Date: 01 17 1949
Description: L.A. Toner,of Miami, Florida, is shown in his Wisconsin General hospital bed cutting his surprise birthday chocolate cake as his wife looks on. Mrs. Toner ...
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Citizens at East Side Hearing

Date: 1949
Description: Thirty citizens, men dressed in suits, two women wearing hats, sit in attendance at a city council hearing proposing an east side emergency hospital.
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Madison General Hospital Nursing Class

Date: 04 01 1949
Description: Group portrait of the 36 nursing students who received their caps in a ceremony at Madison General Hospital.
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Building Site for Veterans Hospital

Date: 06 23 1949
Description: Building site of the Veterans Hospital at University Avenue and Highland Avenue.
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Aerial Photograph of Madison's West Side

Date: 06 27 1949
Description: Aerial photograph looking west across Walnut Street at Forest Products Laboratory and the construction site of the Veterans Administration Hospital. Railr...
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University of Wisconsin Medical School Program

Date: 06 27 1949
Description: University of Wisconsin Medical school and the State Department of Public Welfare have started a program of mutual-help. Dr. Walter J. Urben, superintenden...
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Aerial Photograph of Madison's West Side

Date: 06 27 1949
Description: Aerial photograph looking north across University Avenue at the construction site for the Veterans Administration Hospital.
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Aerial Photograph of Madison's West Side

Date: 06 27 1949
Description: Aerial photograph looking south across the construction site for the Veterans Administration hospital and University Avenue.
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Aerial Photograph of Madison's West Side

Date: 06 27 1949
Description: Aerial photograph looking north across University Avenue at Forest Products Laboratory and the construction site for the Veterans Administration hospital.

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