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Madison Hospital

Date: 1890
Description: Advertisement for Madison Hospital, 413-415 South Baldwin Street. Also known as the Gill & Boyd Hospital, opened in 1889 and existed for just a few years.
Photograph

Wisconsin Hospital for the Insane Staff Members

Date: 1890
Description: Staff members of the Wisconsin Hospital for the Insane pose at the hospital doors. Mendota Mental Health Institute
Photograph

Fort Howard Hospital

Date: 1895
Description: View of the Fort Howard hospital.
Photograph

City Hospital

Date: 1892
Description: View across street of City Hospital.
Photograph

Dane County Asylum for the Criminally Insane

Date: 1895
Description: Dane County Asylum for the Criminally Insane. In 1880 it became a part of the county hospital system, which was set up to provide longer term care to peopl...
Book or Pamphlet

Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane

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

Sick Ward at Charity Hospital

Date: 1854
Description: An illustration of a nun/nurse carrying a pitcher in the sick ward of Charity Hospital. Patients lay in rows of beds along the walls.
Manuscript

Petition to President Lincoln

Date: 1864
Description: Petition to President Abraham Lincoln for the establishment of soldiers homes and hospitals in Wisconsin. The petition is signed by 18 women.
Manuscript

List of Cordelia Harvey Supplies

Date: 11 1862
Description: List of supplies issued to Cordelia Harvey for her soldiers' hospital.
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of Milwaukee : Showing Completed Sewers, Water Pipes Thus Far Laid, the Altitude of Different Regions of the City and the Location of Every Case of Small Pox, Diptheria [i.e. Diphtheria] & Scarlet Fever

Date: 1879
Description: This map shows asylums, cemeteries, hospitals, parks, streets, and wards. Relief is shown by contours. Also included are manuscript annotations in pencil. ...
Photograph

Wisconsin Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1885
Description: View of the Wisconsin Hospital for the Insane and grounds. In 1935 it became the Mendota State Hospital. It was built in 1860 by architect Stephen Vaughn S...

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