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St. Joseph's Hospital

Date: 1905
Description: Caption reads: "St. Joseph's Hospital, Ashland, Wis." Front facade and grounds of the four-story, red brick hospital built in 1905. The basement level is b...
Postcard

Fort Howard Hospital Exterior

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Description: View of ranch-style building with a porch, and people standing on it. Before restoration. Handwritten text at bottom reads: "One of the original Ft. Howard...
Drawing

Plaza at Springfield

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Description: "Plaza at Springfield — Missouri — Civil War". Image shows men standing in the Plaza and one man on horseback. Buildings include the Courthouse and a hospi...
Postcard

Surgical Hospital, Stoughton, Wisconsin

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view of the hospital, with several people standing on and around the front porch. Caption reads: "Stoughton Surgical Hospital, Stoughton, Wis."
Postcard

Stoughton Hospital and Park

Date: 1910
Description: Park view featuring two children and their nurse or nanny in the foreground and an inset of the hospital in the upper left corner. Caption reads: "Stoughto...
Book or Pamphlet

Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1874
Description: Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute) near Madison.
Postcard

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 ...
Photograph

Corpus Christi Procession at St. Mary's Hospital

Date: 06 03 1945
Description: A Corpus Christi procession in front of St. Mary's Hospital, including four navy men as canopy bearers, two navy men were flag bearers, and candle bearers ...
Photograph

Bardee Hospital

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Description: Large house with tree and several people on the porch and in front of the house. The building served as the Milwaukee Hospital in 1863.
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

The entrance to St. Joseph's Hospital

Date: 1910
Description: A view of the entrance and front facade of St. Joseph's Hospital. A man stands on the sidewalk near the entrance. A fence surrounds the building, and a man...
Photograph

The Philadelphia Home for Incurables

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Description: Slightly elevated view of the Philadelphia Home for Incurables, established in 1877. Nurses stand near a group of patients sitting outdoors under trees, w...
Photograph

Yates Memorial Hospital

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Description: Stairs lead from the sidewalk to a columned porch at the hospital entrance. Three girls play with a wagon on the sidewalk. Caption reads: "Yates Memorial H...
Photograph

Madison General Hospital Addition Dedication

Date: 07 19 1952
Description: A crowd of about one hundred persons attended the dedication of the new $2,750,000 wing of Madison General hospital, which is seen in the background.
Photograph

Lewis Arms in Work Uniform

Date: 04 24 1957
Description: Lewis Arms sits on a railing outside University Hospital where he worked as a storeroom clerk. He is wearing a white jacket and hat.
Photograph

Beloit Hospital

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Description: View of the Beloit Hospital from an intersection. There are people sitting on a second floor balcony in a building on the corner. A person is riding a bicy...
Photograph

St. Mary's Student Nurse Tour

Date: 09 04 1957
Description: A tour guide shows new St. Mary's Hospital School of Nursing students around Madison. Viewing Vilas Park and Lake Wingra are, left to right: Sheila Deseve,...
Photograph

Woman at Hansberry Hospital

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Description: A woman (possibly a nurse) standing on the sidewalk in front of the sign at the entrance to Hansberry Hospital, Hillsburo's first hospital. It was establis...
Photograph

Hansberry Hospital

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Description: Three-quarter view from yard of Hansberry Hospital, Hillsburo's first hospital which was established by P.H. Hansberry in 1914. Two women stand on the left...
Photograph

Madison General Hospital School of Nursing Class of 1963

Date: 06 14 1961
Description: Forty-three nursing students in the Madison General Hospital School of Nursing Class of 1963 begin the two-year clinical phase of their nursing education. ...

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