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Visiting Nurse Service Staff Nurses

Date: 04 11 1944
Description: Rosemary Kreilkamp, 222 South Carroll Street, Alice Sanborn, 3005 Harvard Drive, and Ann L. Schmich, director of the Visiting Nurse Service in Madison, exa...
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Polio Survey

Date: 08 09 1944
Description: James R. Law, chairman of the Dane County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Palmer F. Daugs, Lake Mills, representative of the Na...
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Public Health Nursing Week

Date: 04 16 1947
Description: Public Health Nursing Week. Helen Guelzow of the Visiting Nurse Service making her daily physical check-up of two University of Wisconsin nursery school ch...
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Christmas Seal Campaign

Date: 11 18 1947
Description: Mrs. James (Jane) Wilkie with her children, Sara, James, and William, shown wrapping presents using tuberculosis seals.
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PTA Health Chairwomen

Date: 02 09 1948
Description: PTA health chairwomen hearing about plans for the mobile X-ray program from Beulah Dreyfus, a tuberculosis (TB) nurse with the City of Madison Health Depar...
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Louis F. Warrick

Date: 04 21 1948
Description: Louis F. Warrick, State Board of Health, at his desk.
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Madison Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 04 11 1949
Description: Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen giving some advice about pre-natal problems to Mrs. Arnold Davis, a wife of a GI student at the University of Wisconsin.
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Madison Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 04 11 1949
Description: Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen demonstrates to Amy C. Shumway the correct way to bathe her daughter, Carol Louise.
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Madison Heart Fund Drive

Date: 01 24 1950
Description: Mrs. John J. (Audrey) Walsh and Mrs. Gottfired (Ruth) Mayer attach plastic heart coin containers to posters for the Madison Heart Fund Drive.
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Visiting Nurse Service Board of Directors

Date: 11 08 1950
Description: Group portrait of the Visiting Nurse Service Board of Directors. The function of the visiting nurses is to provide bedside care when needed in Madison. Sta...
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Tuberculosis Patients

Date: 10 12 1951
Description: Isa Shower, a tuberculosis patient at Lake View Sanatorium, reads while lying in bed.
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Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 02 05 1952
Description: Nellie Lee MacBurney, 96 years old, shows a small china house to Betty Maresh, registered nurse, who works for the Visiting Nurse Service.
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Dane County Health Council Association

Date: 09 22 1952
Description: Student Gloria Niebuhr has her eyes tested by Dane County Health Council Association volunteer Mrs. Robert Drunasky. Looking on is student Eugene Bosben.
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Recruiting Polio Emergency Volunteers

Date: 06 18 1953
Description: Jean Welsch uses the telephone to recruit volunteers for the Polio Emergency Volunteer training course. At her side is her son Bobby, age 3 1/2 years, who ...
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YWCA Planning Committee

Date: 09 09 1953
Description: Doris Maurin, Carol Crume, and Verba Wendt look over papers while planning YWCA health education classes.
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March of Dimes

Date: 01 18 1954
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...
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March of Dimes

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Portrait of five-year-old Lynn Stenrud with her mother Mrs. Ingvald Stenrud (middle), and Mrs. Robert Huehel (right), all from Deerfield. Lynn is wearing a...
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March of Dimes

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Group portrait of Joyce and Norbert Plewke with their daughter, Pamela, who recently recovered from polio. Mrs. Plewke will participate in the upcoming Mot...
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March of Dimes

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Cummings of Waunakee and their five children. The four older children put money in a contribution container for the Mothers' March...
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Nancy McVee

Date: 12 22 1954
Description: Portrait of Nancy McVee, recently recovered from tuberculosis after being treated in a sanatorium for five years. During that time, she took correspondence...

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