Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-20 of 47

Photograph

Nurse Alma Padgett Feeding a Patient

Date: 02 20 1942
Description: Nurse Alma Padgett feeding a patient from a tray of food at Mendota State Hospital (Mendota Mental Health Institute).
Photograph

Buffet Table at St. Mary's Hospital

Date: 1941
Description: Two nurses and four elderly people sitting behind buffet table at St. Mary's Hospital, 720 South Brooks Street.
Photograph

Little Girl with Burned Foot

Date: 08 17 1934
Description: Carol Skuldt sitting outdoors on a stoop with bandaged burned feet from a brush fire. She is holding a food item.
Photograph

Cooking Turkey

Date: 11 23 1932
Description: Blanche Taylor, dietician at Madison General Hospital, testing turkey in commercial oven in hospital kitchen.
Photograph

Lake View Tuberculosis Sanitarium Dining Room

Date: 10 27 1931
Description: Lake View Tuberculosis Sanitarium dining room.
Photograph

Heart Kitchen

Date: 09 17 1952
Description: Pauline Rehder working in the Heart Kitchen at Madison Vocational and Adult School. The Heart Kitchen, for women with heart disease, allows the cook to wo...
Photograph

Home Economics Club Meeting

Date: 10 16 1944
Description: Three women at a meeting of the Madison Home Economics Club with the theme "Good Nutrition, A Wartime Challenge." Mrs. Irving (Clara) Johnson, president of...
Photograph

Madison Home Economics Club Meeting

Date: 10 16 1944
Description: Two women at a meeting of the Madison Home Economics Club with the theme "Good Nutrition, A Wartime Challenge." Nellie Kedzie Jones, guest of honor and pas...
Photograph

Madison Home Economics Club Meeting

Date: 10 16 1944
Description: Three women and three children at a meeting of the Madison Home Economics Club with the theme "Good Nutrition, A Wartime Challenge." Left to right are Mrs....
Photograph

Mrs. Eda Haugsland

Date: 03 22 1945
Description: Mrs. Eda Haugsland, 207 North Pinckney Street, sewing lapel decorations for the Dane County homework shops which employ persons with disabilities.
Photograph

Sorority Girls Knitting for Hospital Patients

Date: 10 11 1948
Description: Two sorority volunteers knitting for hospital patients that are unable to do handiwork themselves, but desire hand-made articles to give as gifts or to use...
Photograph

Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross

Date: 11 01 1948
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...
Photograph

Help for Fire Victims

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Valera Widener and her children: Norma (on her lap), Franklin (left), and Lyall (right), in Baron Brothers Department Store drinking milk provided by the E...
Photograph

L.A. Toner Cutting Cake

Date: 01 17 1949
Description: L.A. Toner,of Miami, Florida, is shown in his Wisconsin General hospital bed cutting his surprise birthday chocolate cake as his wife looks on. Mrs. Toner ...
Photograph

Family Service Agency

Date: 05 04 1949
Description: Mrs. Margaret Mentzner, a fulltime employee of the Family Service Agency, is shown caring and cooking for two small children whose mother is sick and absen...
Photograph

Tuberculosis Patient

Date: 11 15 1949
Description: Doris Trameri of 568 Park Lane, previously diagnosed with tuberculosis, posing in her former room at Lake View Sanatorium while knitting argyle socks. She ...
Photograph

American Red Cross Blood Center

Date: 07 07 1950
Description: Volunteer worker Mrs. Charles (Elnora) Wirth stands at the counter in the American Red Cross Blood Center canteen, while nurses' aide Mrs. Gordon (Mabel) N...
Photograph

Wisconsin Civilian Defense Nurses Enrollment Day

Date: 02 20 1951
Description: Mrs. Myrtle Cadwell, a retired nurse, butters a piece of bread as two of her three children, Kristi and Carlton, look on. As a graduate nurse she could be ...
Photograph

Tuberculosis Patients

Date: 11 12 1951
Description: Marguerite Willenberg of 1027 East Johnson Street, a tuberculosis patient at Morningside Sanatorium, is sitting in a wicker rocking chair while knitting.
Photograph

Lutefisk Supper

Date: 12
Description: Several women are served lutefisk at a lutefisk supper at the Dane County Home. There are plates of lefse and dinner rolls on the table.

Have Questions?

If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.

Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: