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Photograph

Entering the Uranium Tunnel

Date: 1954
Description: Woman on crutches entering the front office of the uranium tunnel to receive a uranium treatment. Several men sitting in front of the storefront on benches...
Photograph

Lake View Tuberculosis Sanitarium

Date: 04 27 1931
Description: View towards patients in beds, with nurses, on the sun porch at the Lake View Tuberculosis Sanitarium.
Poster

"First Aid Rooms" Factory Safety Poster

Date: 1916
Description: A poster or signboard showing six first aid rooms at six different International Harvester factory and office locations: Champion Works, Akron Works Dispen...
Photograph

Shriners Yule Party

Date: 12 18 1947
Description: A Shrine clown pointing out Santa Claus to a young girl at the Madison Shriners yule party at the Washington Orthopedic School, 545 West Dayton Street.
Photograph

Madison Woman's Club

Date: 02 10 1948
Description: Madison Woman's Club members, left to right, Mrs. John C. Sammis, Mrs. George R. Holdhusen, Mrs. Leslie F. Van Hagan, and Mrs. Edward N. Hein are shown giv...
Magazine or Periodical

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers

Date: 1870
Description: Magazine illustration of the home, titled: "Soldiers' National Asylum at Milwaukee, Wisconsin". The building is in the background, and in the foreground ar...
Print

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers

Date: 1867
Description: E.T. Mix designed the original building of the National Soldiers Home in 1867. At the time the structure was dedicated on 28 September 1867, the wings had ...
Photograph

Wallestad-Stolle Wedding

Date: 01 15 1949
Description: The Wallestad-Stolle wedding party, left to right: Fred Woolsey, best man; Phillip Weston Wallestad, groom; Ursula Stolle, bride; and Mrs. John Wallestad, ...
Photograph

Madison Heart Fund Drive

Date: 01 24 1950
Description: Three women who will take part in the Madison Heart Fund Drive visit with Dennis Swanson of Shopiere who is a patient at the Rheumatic Fever Convalescent H...
Photograph

The Koch Lung Cure

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Description: View from across street of the Koch Lung Cure building. There is a group of men, women and children on the front porch.
Photograph

Registration at the Health Center

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Description: Mothers with babies register at the Health Center. In the background chairs line the walls, and above them are posters on health.
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Examination of a Baby

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Description: Parents watch as their baby is given a physical examination by a woman at the Health Center.
Photograph

Registering at the Health Center

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Description: Women, who are accompanied by their children, register at the Health Center. On the walls are displayed posters on health and food.
Photograph

Health Class

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Description: View from behind of group of woman and children sitting in chairs and listening as an instructor points to a chart on the wall. The instructor is teaching ...
Photograph

Clothing Demonstration

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Description: A nurse demonstrates several articles of clothing to mothers at the Health Center.
Photograph

Mother with Special Needs Children

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Description: A mother arriving at the Health Center with her special needs children.
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Physical Examination of Young Girl

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Description: A nurse or doctor at the Health Center gives a girl a physical examination as the mother, who is holding a baby, looks on.
Photograph

Physical Examination

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Description: A nurse or doctor gives an infant a physical examination at the Health Center as the baby's mother looks on.
Photograph

Baby with Nurse and Mother

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Description: A nurse undresses a baby in preparation for a physical examination as the fashionably-dressed mother looks on.
Photograph

Native American Mother and Child

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Description: An Indian mother holds her baby in her arms as she arrives at the Health Center.

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