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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 ...
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Sterile Solution

Date: 1948
Description: A nurse mixes sterile solution in the pharmacy of St. Joseph's Hospital.
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Sister Mary Clara Francis

Date: 1948
Description: Sister Mary Clara Francis, pharmacist at St. Joseph Hospital, glances up from her paperwork.
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St. Joseph Hospital Pharmacy

Date: 1948
Description: View of a nurse or pharmacist taking notes in the front end of the prescription department at the St. Joseph Hospital Pharmacy.
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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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Hospital Care

Date: 1950
Description: University of Wisconsin-Whitewater students care for a patient at the Fort Atkinson Hospital.
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Rocking Newborns

Date: 1950
Description: Women feed and rock newborn babies in a neonatal hospital unit.
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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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Big Baby

Date: 10 04 1958
Description: A new mother is looking on as her 13-pound newborn infant is weighed by the nurse.
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Workers in McCormick Works Doctors' Office

Date: 1930
Description: Workers receiving treatment from of two doctors and a nurse in a medical office or hospital room at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The McCormic...
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Treating Workers at McCormick Works Hospital

Date: 11 04 1914
Description: Medical staff attending to male and female factory workers at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting ...
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Hospital Patient Watching Television

Date: 01 17 1958
Description: The installation of televisions in hospital rooms is a welcome addition to this patient at Misericordia Hospital.
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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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St. Joseph's Computer

Date: 12 14 1967
Description: A secretary in the pathology department at St. Joseph's Hospital working at a new computer.
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Mendota State Hospital Award Presentation

Date: 01 16 1944
Description: Ralph Runge, Local #1 Chairman of the WSDA membership committee, presenting the President Zander Membership Cup to Jay D. Ferguson, Chairman of the winning...
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Buffet Table at St. Mary's Hospital

Date: 1941
Description: Two nurses and four elderly people sitting behind buffet table at St. Mary's Hospital, 720 South Brooks Street.
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A Star Is Born

Date: 05 18 1937
Description: Evelyn Canfield, in Madison General Hospital bed, looks to her newborn baby, David, who won the Orpheum Theatre's fourth anniversary "A Star Is Born" conte...
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Mother and Her 17th Baby

Date: 07 22 1935
Description: Clara Halvorson, married to Henry Halvorson, resting with her 17th child, John Skews Halvorson, at Methodist Hospital shortly after the baby's birth. She w...
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Nurse in front of Refrigerator

Date: 04 16 1935
Description: A nurse in uniform standing in front of an open refrigerator, checking vials of medicines at the Wisconsin General Hospital.

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