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Medical Evacuation

Date: 11 1951
Description: A wounded Korean War soldier being carried on an airplane for evacuation to a military hospital in Japan. This snapshot was taken by journalist and news co...
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Truax Hospital Heating Building

Date: 01 22 1943
Description: View of pumping units in the hospital heating building at Truax Army Air Field.
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Fort Howard Hospital

Date: 1934
Description: Fort Howard Hospital. There is a chimney on the right side of the building, and a stone wall is along the sidewalk.
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Wounded Marine in Iwo Jima

Date: 02 1945
Description: A marine from the USS "Samaritan" lays on a stretcher with his eyes bandaged.
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Hospital Kitchen

Date: 02 1945
Description: Two men make coffee in a ramshackle hospital kitchen, which consisted of a single, improvised burner. The grill is the innards of a human blood shipping ca...
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Surgeon at the Steward's Quarters

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Description: A surgeon examines a patient at the steward's quarters. Joseph W. Curtis, hospital steward, is inside the tent, seated on a medicine chest.
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Fort Crawford

Date: 1864
Description: Fort Crawford was decommissioned in 1856, having outlived its usefulness as a frontier post. During the Civil War, however, it functioned as a military ho...
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Fort Crawford

Date: 1940
Description: Fort Crawford. Hospital after restoration.
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Fort Crawford

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Description: Fort Crawford Hospital.
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Fort Crawford

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Description: Fort Crawford Hospital. Snow is on the ground.
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Fort Crawford

Date: 1880
Description: Fort Crawford Hospital. A man is sitting on a branch in the yard.
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Fort Crawford (Restored)

Date: 1936
Description: A view of Fort Crawford after restoration.
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Fort Crawford

Date: 1936
Description: Ruins of old Fort Crawford.
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Campion College Building

Date: 1864
Description: Oval-framed view of Lawler Hall at Campion College. This image was made during the Civil War when the building was used as a U.S. Military hospital. Prior ...
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Brisbois Hotel

Date: 1865
Description: View across open grounds towards the Brisbois Hotel, built in the early 1860's, and used as a hospital during the Civil War. It was later part of Campion H...
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Pongani Village

Date: 11 13 1942
Description: Pongani village, northeast New Guinea, several miles east of Burma, occupied by the 128th Infantry medical detachment and service troops.
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Dr. John Maynard Woodworth, Physician

Date: 1865
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Dr. John Maynard Woodworth (1837-1879), American physician and naturalist. In 1871, Woodworth became the first Surgeo...
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Julia A. Hill, as a Nurse

Date: 1905
Description: Julia A. Hill, member of the Menomonie High School class of 1905, depicted as a nurse, attending to a wounded soldier. Part of a yearbook created by classm...
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Union Troops at Lawler Hall

Date: 1864
Description: Union troops at Lawler Hall which was used as a U.S. military hospital during the Civil War. Originally built as the Brisbois Hotel in 1857, it was given f...
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Union Volunteer Refreshment Saloon

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Description: Exterior view from street of the facade of the Saloon and Saloon Hospital.

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