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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

Television for Patients

Date: 1950
Description: Hospital or nursing home patients are able to view television in their rooms.
Photograph

Nurse with Child Patient

Date: 1950
Description: Nurse with a young girl patient and a container of blood.
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.
Photograph

Leech Lake Agency Medical Care

Date: 1901
Description: Dr. Stephenson, Leech Lake Agency physician, and assistants prepare a small pox patient for removal to the hospital.
Photograph

Doctor with Refugee Child in Algeria

Date: 08 1957
Description: A Red Crescent doctor is holding an Algerian refugee child who survived a French air attack that killed eighteen people. Behind them is a shepherd's daught...
Photograph

Red Crescent Doctor and Injured Man

Date: 1957
Description: A Red Crescent doctor examining an injured man who is wrapped in bandages. They are in Algeria.
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

Nurses at Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital

Date: 11 06 1947
Description: Two nurses feeding infants at the Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital, 1415 Linden Drive.
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...
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

Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross

Date: 11 01 1948
Description: Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross serving tea to two unidentified patients at the Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Left to right are: Mrs. H. ...
Photograph

Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross

Date: 11 01 1948
Description: Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross reading outdoors to patients of the Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Shown standing, at left, is Mrs. Willia...
Photograph

Doctor Treating Patient's Arm

Date: 
Description: A doctor gives a patient an inoculation in an office. The two men could possibly be two medical students horse-playing. The man on the right is probably Dr...
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

Loading Wounded Soldier onto Ship

Date: 1945
Description: Overhead view of men loading a wounded soldier onto a hospital ship.
Postcard

Dr. Locke Treating Patients

Date: 1935
Description: Dr. Mahlon William Locke treating arthritis sufferers on the street in Williamsburg, Ontario, Canada. Many people have gathered to watch or to receive trea...
Photograph

National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 11 1950
Description: Nurse Sadie Zum Brunnen tends to a patient, seven-year-old Bonita Gill, at Madison General Hospital. Sadie is a member of the Madison Business and Professi...
Photograph

St. John's Hospital Nursery

Date: 
Description: Two men, two women, and a number of newborns in the nursery at St. John's Hospital.
Book or Pamphlet

Sick Ward at Charity Hospital

Date: 1854
Description: An illustration of a nun/nurse carrying a pitcher in the sick ward of Charity Hospital. Patients lay in rows of beds along the walls.

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