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Digitalis Exhibit

Date: 05 15 1935
Description: View of a U.S. Pharmacopeia Exhibit about a class of medications called 'digitalis' at the annual Philadelphia on Parade. Digitalis medicines are used to i...
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Red Cross Workers

Date: 09 21 1942
Description: Large group of Red Cross Workers seated at tables, preparing surgical dressings in the assembly room at the American Federation of State, County and Local ...
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State Employees Making Surgical Dressings

Date: 08 17 1942
Description: State female employees making surgical dressings / bandages for the American Red Cross in the Wisconsin State Employees Association building, 448 W. Washin...
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Child with Injured Foot

Date: 08 1957
Description: A young Algerian girl has her foot treated by a Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) worker in a tent. The man is wrapping the girl's foot in bandages. She ...
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Mrs. Lawrence J. McCormick, Christmas Seal Chairman

Date: 11 08 1955
Description: Mrs. Lawrence J. McCormick, former patient at Lake View Sanatorium, looking at her chest x-ray with Dr. John K. Shumate. Mrs. McCormick was chairman of the...
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Presentation of a Fluoroscope to City of Madison

Date: 11 14 1944
Description: The presentation of a fluoroscope purchased by the Madison Tuberculosis Association to the City of Madison Health Department. Shown left to right are Mayor...
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Mobile X-Ray Unit

Date: 05 02 1949
Description: Miss Jeanne Gibbons (left), a technician with the Madison Board of Health, explaining the workings of the mobile X-ray unit to members of the Lakewood Scho...
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Junior Red Cross Leadership Training

Date: 10 25 1949
Description: Bill Rayne, chairman of the motor corps division of the Junior Red Cross, unloads a box of cancer dressings for the Madison board of health during a Junior...
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IH War Materials Division Manager Makes Blood Donation

Date: 1943
Description: Two nurses test C.E. Stevens' blood pressure and hemoglobin prior to his blood donation at the Red Cross blood bank. The original caption reads: "Blood pre...
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Eagles' Auxiliary Members Making Dressings

Date: 04 04 1950
Description: Members of the Eagles' auxiliary making dressings for cancer patients while sitting around a table at the Woman's Building. Around the table from the left ...
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American Red Cross Center Blood Center

Date: 07 07 1950
Description: Mrs. John (Emily) Sprague, right, nurse's aide at the American Red Cross Center blood bank, preparing to take the temperature of blood donor, Mrs. Richard ...
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Red Cross Blood Donor

Date: 09 08 1950
Description: Jules S. Jacobs sitting on a bed at the American Red Cross Regional Blood Center on East Washington Avenue after becoming the one thousandth donor at the n...
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Veterans Presentation

Date: 02 15 1951
Description: The Dane County 40 and 8 Chapter Number 684 World War I veterans group presents its annual contributions to four county child welfare programs. Left to rig...
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Red Cross Activities

Date: 03 05 1951
Description: Red Cross nurse instructor, Dorothy Wylde, at right, teaches proper contents of a home medicine chest to Marjorie Hagan, left, and Dorothy Currere, student...
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Volunteers at Red Cross Regional Blood Center

Date: 06 14 1951
Description: Volunteer nurses Mrs. J.W. Brown and Mrs. R.H. Olsen work at the year-old Red Cross Regional Blood Center in Madison.
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Polio Resistance Exerciser

Date: 10 16 1951
Description: Close-up of a polio resistance exerciser. Dick Murphy, captain of the U.W. boxing team, is shown receiving "treatment" on the machine given by Frank Lam of...
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 12 09 1951
Description: City Attorney Harold E. Hanson has his blood pressure taken by Mary Clancy, Red Cross blood center staff nurse.
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Boy Scouts Klondike Derby

Date: 01 13 1952
Description: Dr. David Williams, center left, looks over first aid equipment prior to the Boy Scouts Klondike Derby at Glenway Golf Course. In the background are other ...
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Red Cross Peacetime Activities

Date: 02 26 1952
Description: The work of the Red Cross in peacetime is less well publicized than its services during wartime. Their blood bank program is considered one of the most out...
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Czechoslovak Relief Committee

Date: 1941
Description: A group of men from the Chicago Czechoslovak Relief Committee are standing against an International D-15-M (Metro) truck sold to Czechoslovakian Relief for...

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