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Scrabble Game

Date: 04 11 1965
Description: A hospital patient plays a scrabble game with an occupational therapist.
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Newborn

Date: 03 18 1963
Description: Four generations are represented in this portrait of a newborn baby with his mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.
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Television for Patients

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

Date: 08 28 1960
Description: An insurance executive carries on with work after he was hit by a car, dictating letters to his secretary from his hospital bed, with his leg in traction.
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Wendell Willkie and Aaron Martin Brayton

Date: 03 1944
Description: Wendell Willkie visits with Aaron Martin Brayton, retired editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, on his bed in a local hospital room during Willkie'...
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Madison General Hospital Gift Shop

Date: 01 27 1953
Description: Mrs. Garth Heisig, Arlington Heights, Illinois, purchases a silver bracelet in the Madison General Hospital Gift shop from Mrs. S.W. Sherlock, a hospital a...
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Nurse Molly Hackett

Date: 08 31 1955
Description: Nurse Molly Hackett, a staff nurse at Madison General Hospital.
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John Welton Fisher

Date: 02 17 1937
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of John Welton Fisher, Milwaukee medical director.
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The Kennedy Center for the Hip & Knee at Mercy Medical Center — Interior

Date: 10 31 2003
Description: "Keeping our Friday fish fry tradition alive, Heather delivers a Friday meal featuring fish at Mercy Medical Center."
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Students Tour Hospital Delivery Room

Date: 01 23 1968
Description: Students wearing face masks and sterile gowns visit the delivery room at Doctors Hospital as part of a family living class. The student on the right who is...
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Muscular Dystrophy Research at University of Wisconsin Hospitals

Date: 11 16 1953
Description: Dr. Stanley Weinreb, Muscular Dystrophy project associate in pathology at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals, uses the microtomie to slice a tissue samp...
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Polio Survivors Value March of Dimes

Date: 12 28 1954
Description: Mrs. William J. (Salome) Fix, caretaker of premature babies at St. Mary's Hospital, holds one of her tiny patients. She was diagnosed with polio in 1949.
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Holy Cross Hospital

Date: 05 1974
Description: Dedication of an addition to the Holy Cross Hospital. The Catholic order opened Holy Cross Hospital in 1926 and completed this addition in 1974. The hospit...
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St. Mary's Hospital Neuropsychiatric Treatment Center Dedication

Date: 03 21 1957
Description: The original caption states: "here, trying out the comfortable setting of the patients' living room are Irene Gruendler, Sister Mary of the Angels, Mary El...
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St. Mary's Hospital Neuropsychiatric Treatment Center Dedication

Date: 03 21 1957
Description: Dr. Edward Bruckner, pathologist, Sister Mary Seraphia, S.S.M., administrator of the hospital, and Eleanor DeMeuse, supervisor nurse, conferring in the gla...
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Theresa EMTs

Date: 05 1991
Description: "Theresa EMTs."
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Madison General Hospital Junior Aide Program

Date: 05 13 1957
Description: Madison General Hospital Junior Aide volunteer Betsy Dye delivers a plant to Mrs. M.C. Palmer at her bedside.
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Madison Children's Hospital Gets Aid

Date: 11 07 1958
Description: The Henry Schroeder Council of the Telephone Pioneers of America (TPA) presenting a check for $499.95 to Dr. Nathan Smith, professor of pediatrics at Wisco...
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Mendota State Hospital Employees Honored

Date: 12 11 1958
Description: Shown in center is Gustave Pasicka, who is being honored as he retires from serving as a hospital aid at Mendota State Hospital. With him, at left, are: Ja...
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Mendota State Hospital Employees Honored

Date: 12 12 1958
Description: Retiring employees of Mendota State Hospital are honored by the staff. Three of them are shown talking with Dr. Walter Urben (left). They include, from lef...

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