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Rocking Newborns

Date: 1950
Description: Women feed and rock newborn babies in a neonatal hospital unit.
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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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Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane Pharmacy Dispensary

Date: 1893
Description: Pharmacy supplies are displayed in shelves in an office at the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane, lit by gas lamps hanging above the desk. (Mendota M...
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Tomac Plasma Bank

Date: 1944
Description: A woman in a white dress, probably a nurse or volunteer, places a container into a "Tomac Plasma Bank," a refrigeration unit developed by International Har...
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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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Dane County Medical Society Women's Auxiliary

Date: 04 06 1954
Description: Group portrait of four student nurses, recipients of a scholarship from the Dane County Medical Society Women's Auxiliary, in the emergency room at St. Mar...
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Red Crescent Worker Examines Patient

Date: 08 1957
Description: An Algerian Red Crescent (Red Cross equivalent) examining a young girl's teeth. The girl is wearing a patterned shawl and is reaching for the man's hat. Th...
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 07 1982
Description: "Trinity United Methodist parish hall, Lomira, was the setting for the Red Cross Blood Drive."
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Doctor Reading Results of Electrocardiograph

Date: 1974
Description: Dr. Virginia Barker, Nursing School Dean at Alfred University, is reading the results of an electrocardiograph in a mobile health unit. The mobile health ...
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Medical Personnel Tending to Wounded Soldier

Date: 04 1945
Description: Two medics tend to a wounded soldier laying on a cot at a field hospital at Okinawa.
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Speech and Hearing Clinic Open House

Date: 09 26 1963
Description: A University of Wisconsin student demonstrating a hearing test during the open house of the speech and hearing clinic. The clinic is now operating under on...
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Hospital

Date: 01 2014
Description: View down hallway towards a person, obscured by a doorway, resting in a reclining hospital chair while receiving an infusion of chemicals for cancer treatm...
Book or Pamphlet

Holy Family Hospital, Operating Room

Date: 1901
Description: View of the brightly lit, tiled floor operating room. Cast-iron furniture includes an operating table, with a slanted central opening for drainage of fluid...
Book or Pamphlet

Holy Family Hospital, Water Cure Department

Date: 1901
Description: View of one of the Water Cure Department's rooms furnished with a large porcelain bath tub, marble table and sitz or hip bath. An apparatus for water regul...
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Game Farm Laboratory

Date: 10 1935
Description: A man wearing a white surgical gown and gloves is standing at a surgical table. He is performing a necropsy on a small animal. There is a double basin stan...
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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: Nurse Marie Holt adjusting the new X-ray machine over a patient lying on the table, while Selma Haase, in the right foreground, is waiting to take a pictur...
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Home Bound Gentleman Using a Typewriter

Date: 12 06 1954
Description: A bed-ridden man working from home. Laying in a hospital bed set up in his living room, he is using a typewriter that that is sitting on a table between a ...
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Angio-cardiogram X-ray Camera

Date: 10 1955
Description: Slightly elevated view of medical staff examining an angio-cardiograph X-ray camera are (from left): Yvonne Traeder, an X-ray technician; Dr. I.A. Krystose...
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Dental Treatment Room at McCormick Works

Date: 04 26 1919
Description: A man is being treated by another man in the Dental Treatment Room. There is a telephone on a desk on the left.

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