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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: | Tables are set up at a City Hall basement lobby as a venue for public access to the polio vaccine. |
| Date: | 09 17 1942 |
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| Description: | Health for Victory stage, set up with posters, stove and refrigerator for Oscar Mayer at the Eastwood Theater. On the stage is a woman pointing to a poster... |
| Date: | 04 27 1934 |
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| Description: | Three little girls, members of the Emerson Fresh Air school and the Longfellow Nutrition room, playing with puppies in the Capital Times Kiddie Camp... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of children walking up a grassy hill together, with text that reads: "The health of the child is the power of the nation," and "Children's Year." C... |
| 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: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association exhibit advertised in the storefront of a building in New London, Wisconsin. Two women are looking through the wind... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association traveling health exhibit. Long bus with Tuberculosis information displayed and a crowd gathered. |
| 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: | 09 30 1947 |
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| Description: | James L. Clarke, city health inspector, placing a warning sign on a fence at the Shorewood dump after workers distributed poison bread bait in the dump. |
| Date: | 10 18 1947 |
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| Description: | Miss Catherine Ahern, a member of the board of directors of the Madison Tuberculosis Association, holding a double-bar cross, the symbol of the association... |
| Date: | 01 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. John J. (Audrey) Walsh and Mrs. Gottfired (Ruth) Mayer attach plastic heart coin containers to posters for the Madison Heart Fund Drive. |
| 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: | 09 28 1878 |
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| Description: | An illustration depicting well-dressed ferry passengers depositing money in the yellow fever box at Fulton Ferry. A sign reads: "Contributions recieved ( |
| Date: | 01 18 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Brown and their three children. Russell, right, is still fighting the effects of his paralysis from polio; he pins a Mother... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Polio vaccine being unloaded (?) from a Northwest airplane. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A doctor unloading a box filled with a supply of the polio vaccine. The box in the foreground is labeled: "Polio Vaccine Rush" and the doctor is kneeling n... |
| Date: | 04 11 1957 |
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| Description: | Three members of the Dane County board look over literature provided by the American Cancer Society for introduction into public schools. Left to right are... |
| Date: | 01 07 1958 |
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| Description: | Ward captains meet to plan the Mothers' March on Polio in connection with the Dane County March of Dimes. The Mothers' March will take place the night of J... |
| Date: | 03 14 1958 |
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| Description: | Members of the Dane County Medical Society, the Methodist Hospital Nurses' Alumnae Association, and the Dane County Unit of the American Cancer Society pre... |
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