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Osborne Works Hospital Room

Date: 1913
Description: Hospital room at International Harvester's Osborne Works. The room is equipped with an examination table, portable wash basin, wooden chairs, and jars of m...
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Veterans Making Poppies

Date: 03 30 1936
Description: Elevated view of veterans sitting at individual tables in the occupational therapy room, making poppies in the Wisconsin Memorial Hospital. The hospital is...
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Lake View Tuberculosis Sanatorium

Date: 04 29 1931
Description: Two patients in beds at the Lake View TB Sanatorium ward, located at 1202 Northport Drive.
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Lake View Tuberculosis Sanatorium

Date: 04 29 1931
Description: View down sunporch towards patients lying in beds at the Lake View Tuberculosis Sanatorium at 1202 Northport Drive.
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Lake View Tuberculosis Sanitarium — Sun Porch

Date: 04 27 1931
Description: Lake View TB Sanitarium sun porch.
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Lake View Tuberculosis Sanitarium Dining Room

Date: 10 27 1931
Description: Lake View Tuberculosis Sanitarium dining room.
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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.
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Wisconsin Memorial Hospital

Date: 08 28 1929
Description: Wisconsin Memorial Hospital at Farwell's Point on the grounds of the Mendota Mental Health Institute. There is a photocopy of an article included with the ...
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Pennoyer Sanitarium

Date: 1910
Description: The Pennoyer Sanitarium, later called the Pennoyer Home. The structure was built in 1890 on the north end of Milwaukee Avenue. It was later used as St. Cat...
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Marathon County Asylum

Date: 1905
Description: View looking down the dirt road framed by trees toward the Marathon County Asylum. Caption reads: "Marathon County Asylum, Wausau, Wis."
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Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1874
Description: Hospital for the Insane.
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Sanitarium

Date: 1905
Description: Exterior view of the Prairie du Chien Sanitarium. Established in 1903, it became a general hospital in the 1930s. A group of people are posing on the lawn ...
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Sanitarium

Date: 1907
Description: View of Prairie du Chien Sanitarium. "The grounds where this sanitarium stands was the site of Gen. Taylor's headquarters at Fort Crawford in 1832. It was ...
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View of Sanitarium

Date: 1907
Description: Exterior view of the Praire du Chien Sanitarium. Caption reads: "Sanitarium, Prairie du Chien, Wis."
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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...
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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 ...
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St . Mary's Hospital

Date: 1918
Description: Saint Mary's Hospital, 720 South Brooks St., completed in 1911.
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Madison General Hospital

Date: 1918
Description: Exterior view of the original Madison General Hospital with the new wing, added in 1912(all demolished). Madison General Hospital merged with Methodist Hos...
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St. Mary's Hospital

Date: 1918
Description: St. Mary's Hospital, 720 South Brooks St., completed in 1911.
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Mendota Mental Health Institute

Date: 06 28 1962
Description: Interior view of a historically-restored hallway in the Mendota Mental Health Institute (Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane).

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