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| Date: | 02 06 1947 |
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| Description: | View of nine empty beds in a Mendota State Hospital ward (Mendota Mental Health Institute) at 301 Troy Drive. |
| Date: | 02 07 1947 |
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| Description: | Woman patients at the Mendota State Hospital (Mendota Mental Health Institute) sitting in rocking chairs in the sun room. One of a series of photographs ca... |
| Date: | 02 07 1947 |
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| Description: | View of an open stair well at the Mendota State Hospital (Mendota Mental Health Institute). The fourth floor has been abandoned because of the veritable fi... |
| Date: | 10 10 1947 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 15 1947 |
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| Description: | Workers and patients at tables in the canteen in a Quonset hut at the Veterans Administration Hospital on the grounds of the Mendota State Hospital. |
| Date: | 11 06 1947 |
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| Description: | Male patient working at a table weaving/braiding as part of his occupational therapy at the Veterans Administration Hospital on the grounds of Mendota Stat... |
| Date: | 10 15 1947 |
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| Description: | Woman seated at radio broadcasting console playing music for patients at the Veterans Administration Hospital on the grounds of Mendota State Hospital. |
| Date: | 08 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Two university students helping serve dinner to patients at Mendota State Hospital. They are John LeSeur from Cornell University on the left, and Roy Klett... |
| Date: | 08 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Mendota State Hospital student volunteers shown assisting Dr. Adolf Soucek give a patient electric shock treatment. The University of Wisconsin students ar... |
| Date: | 08 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Two students making a bed at the Mendota State Hospital during their University of Wisconsin program to learn the inside workings of a mental institution. ... |
| Date: | 08 11 1948 |
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| Description: | A Mendota State Hospital patient shown having her hair arranged and nails manicured by Lucille Schultz (left) from Manitowoc, a University of Wisconsin stu... |
| Date: | 11 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross teaching jewelry-making to a group of patients at the Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Gray Ladies, shown at... |
| Date: | 11 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross serving tea to two unidentified patients at the Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Left to right are: Mrs. H. ... |
| Date: | 11 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross sorting books at the library of Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Left to right: Mrs. Frederick Hillyer, and ... |
| Date: | 11 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross reading outdoors to patients of the Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Shown standing, at left, is Mrs. Willia... |
| Date: | 06 27 1949 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 28 1962 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a historically-restored hallway in the Mendota Mental Health Institute (Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane). |
| Date: | 09 27 1950 |
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| Description: | Officers of the Madison unit of the Wisconsin Council for Mentally Retarded Children, seated around a table. Left to right: Mrs. E.K. (Flora) Steul, public... |
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| Description: | View across lawn toward the stone and brick Italianate-style asylum. The front entrance has a vine-covered porch in front, with bushes and shrubs flanking ... |
| Date: | 12 14 1952 |
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| Description: | A circle of female patients and a nurse hold hands during a dance at Mendota State Hospital. John Birchall, a hospital recreation staff person, plays a dou... |
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