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Painting

Fort Howard dans La Grand Baie Verte (Ouisconsin)

Date: 1842
Description: This hand-colored lithograph of the second Fort Howard, with Indians canoeing on the Fox River, shows the hospital built 1834-1835 outside the stockade on ...
Photograph

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'...
Postcard

Grand View Hospital

Date: 1929
Description: View across street toward the hospital. Caption reads: "Grand View Hospital, La Crosse, Wis."
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

Methodist Hospital

Date: 
Description: Slightly elevated view of the Methodist Hospital. A lake is in the background. Caption reads: "The Methodist Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin".
Photograph

Superintendents of State Welfare Institutions

Date: 10 23 1944
Description: Group portrait of 13 superintendents of state welfare institutions with A.W. Bayley (extreme right, standing), director of the Wisconsin Deptartment of Pub...
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

St. Mary's School of Nursing Graduates

Date: 06 24 1945
Description: Group portrait of 21 nurses, standing on the steps in front of Alumni Hall, 1100 Delaphaine Court, at St. Mary's Hospital. They graduated from St. Mary's H...
Photograph

Madison Woman's Club with Dolls

Date: 12 10 1947
Description: Madison Woman's Club members presenting 50 dolls to Orthopedic Hospital (Children's Hospital, a part of Wisconsin General Hospital). L to R: Mary E. Seybol...
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

Front Entrance of Hospital

Date: 
Description: A three and one-half story brick structure, entrance in the middle, and a flag pole on the left.
Photograph

Citizens at East Side Hearing

Date: 1949
Description: Thirty citizens, men dressed in suits, two women wearing hats, sit in attendance at a city council hearing proposing an east side emergency hospital.
Photograph

Madison General Hospital Nursing Class

Date: 04 01 1949
Description: Group portrait of the 36 nursing students who received their caps in a ceremony at Madison General Hospital.
Photograph

Ground-Breaking Ceremony for Addition to Wisconsin General Hospital

Date: 08 09 1949
Description: State and University of Wisconsin officials join in ground-breaking ceremonies for additions to the Wisconsin General hospital. left to right: Governor Osc...
Photograph

Ground-Breaking Ceremony for Addition to Wisconsin General Hospital

Date: 08 09 1949
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm uses a chain saw to make a cut on one of the trees in front of the Wisconsin General hospital. The trees must be removed to make r...
Photograph

Groundbreaking for Madison General Hospital Addition

Date: 07 10 1950
Description: Edward J. B. Schubring (left), president of Madison General hospital association, and City Manager Leonard G. Howell wield the shovels at the groundbreakin...
Photograph

Dedication Ceremony for Madison General Hospital Addition

Date: 05 01 1951
Description: Two officials of the Madison General Hospital Association and a workman are pictured with Mayor George Forester, far right, at the cornerstone laying prior...
Photograph

LBJ Meets the Wounded

Date: 05 23 1966
Description: On a surprise visit to Bethesda Naval Hospital, President Lyndon Johnson shakes hands with John R. Kington, a Marine wounded in Vietnam. In the next bed is...
Photograph

Dedication of the New Cancer Research Hospital

Date: 01 23 1952
Description: Group portrait of officials who took part in the dedication program for the new University of Wisconsin cancer research hospital. Left to right are Former ...

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