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| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Board of Health's vehicle the "Child Welfare Special". |
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| Description: | A man distributes rat poison, which was invented by Dr. Link, to a Boy Scout to place in rat-infested areas. They are standing in front of the Village Hall... |
| Date: | 08 12 1984 |
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| Description: | A bikini-clad woman snaps a self-portrait with a long cable release attached to a camera as she is tossed into the air by a group of men on the beach. Othe... |
| Date: | 11 25 1933 |
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| Description: | A group portrait of Boy Scouts and adult leaders armed with tacks, hammers and posters to promote the sale of Christmas Seals. |
| Date: | 05 25 1928 |
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| Description: | Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to help prevent the spread of tuberculosis. Includes the text: ... |
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| Description: | A nurse poses on steps with a Native American mother and four children. |
| Date: | 04 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Myra Johnson, 323 West Mifflin Street, the newest member of the Visiting Nurse Service staff, with her bicycle, which she uses to make her daily rounds. Ca... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | State Board of Health mobile tuberculosis x-ray unit. The ability to bring tuberculosis diagnostic technology to all parts of the state greatly aided the v... |
| Date: | 04 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen standing at her car ready to start her daily activities. |
| Date: | 11 20 1949 |
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| Description: | Delores Wilkinson, member of the Madison Come-Back Club, and Sylvan Lipski, Milwaukee All-City Flying Club member are shown just before they released five ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two unidentified young Ho-Chunk girls with smallpox are kneeling outside their lodge. Some of the Ho-Chunk suffering from smallpox were quarantined during ... |
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| Description: | An unidentified young Ho-Chunk boy and girl with smallpox are standing outside of their home. The Ho-Chunk girl is wrapped in a shawl and is standing on th... |
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| Description: | A Ho-Chunk girl is wrapped in a shawl and sitting outdoors on the left, and a Ho-Chunk boy posing only in a shirt is standing on the right. Both children ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exhibit poster illustrating the proposed benefits of "open air schools . . . where sick children are made well and weak bones catch up with sound minds." I... |
| Date: | 10 1936 |
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| Description: | A nurse poses outdoors holding a Native American girl at the Lac du Flambeau Indian reservation. |
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| Description: | Two women and an infant represent three generations of an Indian family. They are posing at the steps of the Health Center, where they are to attend Mother... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Worker spraying Elm trees with DDT pumped from a tank hitched to the back of a vehicle equipped with a snow plow. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A group of children gathers around an International truck modified for use by a public health organization while a woman in a nurse's outfit stands inside.... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Medical examination of a boy in a refugee camp in the mountain region of Vietnam on the border of Laos. Treatment provided by a joint MEDICO/U.S. Army huma... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Small schoolhouse with a bell tower on the roof over the entrance to the building. The schoolhouse is surrounded by trees. A class of students is pictured ... |
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