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Mother and Infant

Date: 01 01 1952
Description: A mother, with a mask over her mouth and nose, lying in a bed holding an infant. This is probably the first baby born in Madison in 1952, just 5 seconds af...
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Mendota State Hospital Ward

Date: 02 06 1947
Description: View of nine empty beds in a Mendota State Hospital ward (Mendota Mental Health Institute) at 301 Troy Drive.
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Tommy Manning

Date: 02 18 1953
Description: Joan Kain, speech therapist, helps Tommy Manning, age 3, who has cerebral palsy, learn to talk by showing him objects on a display board. It is part of hi...
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Man in a Wheelchair

Date: 12 18 1956
Description: Robert Jensen typing while sitting in a wheelchair. He was paralyzed by spinal polio after serving in the United States Army in Korea.
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Jeanne De Barr with Seeing Eye Dog

Date: 02 02 1944
Description: Jeanne De Barr with her seeing eye dog, Nellie.
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Girl Scouts Training at Washington Orthopedic School

Date: 03 22 1944
Description: Dane County Unit of the Association for the Disabled training members of Girl Scout Troop No. 6 at the Washington Orthopedic School for Crippled Children, ...
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Visiting Nurse Service Staff Nurses

Date: 04 11 1944
Description: Rosemary Kreilkamp, 222 South Carroll Street, Alice Sanborn, 3005 Harvard Drive, and Ann L. Schmich, director of the Visiting Nurse Service in Madison, exa...
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Visiting Nurse Service Staff Nurse on Bicycle

Date: 04 11 1944
Description: Myra Johnson, 323 West Mifflin Street, the newest member of the Visiting Nurse Service staff, with her bicycle, which she uses to make her daily rounds. Ca...
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Farm House and Children's Rheumatic Fever Home

Date: 04 11 1944
Description: William and Frederike Weber farm house on Highway 12-18, near the Yahara River south of Lake Monona. The house was also the Children's Home for Rheumatic F...
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Dr. F.F. Bowman

Date: 05 18 1944
Description: Dr. F.F. Bowman, Madison health officer for the past sixteen years.
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Methodist Hospital

Date: 1920
Description: The building at 309 West Washington Avenue was built in 1891 for the St. Regina Convent and Academy of the Sinsinawa Dominican nuns across the street from ...
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Orthopedic Hospital Cleft Palate Clinic

Date: 07 27 1944
Description: Childern with clinic director Charlotte Wells attending a speech training class at the Wisconsin Orthopedic Cleft Palate Clinic. The clinic is sponsored by...
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Orthopedic Hospital Cleft Palate Clinic

Date: 07 27 1944
Description: Childern attending a speech training class at the Wisconsin Orthopedic Cleft Palate Clinic with Gretchen Mueller, speech correctionist. The clinic is spons...
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Accident at East Side Festival

Date: 08 01 1944
Description: Photograph of Lois Bailey, who was thrown from the Tilt-a-Whirl ride at the Madison East Side Festival, suffering injuries to her face and head.
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Polio Survey

Date: 08 09 1944
Description: James R. Law, chairman of the Dane County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, Palmer F. Daugs, Lake Mills, representative of the Na...
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Home Economics Club Meeting

Date: 10 16 1944
Description: Three women at a meeting of the Madison Home Economics Club with the theme "Good Nutrition, A Wartime Challenge." Mrs. Irving (Clara) Johnson, president of...
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Madison Home Economics Club Meeting

Date: 10 16 1944
Description: Two women at a meeting of the Madison Home Economics Club with the theme "Good Nutrition, A Wartime Challenge." Nellie Kedzie Jones, guest of honor and pas...
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Madison Home Economics Club Meeting

Date: 10 16 1944
Description: Three women and three children at a meeting of the Madison Home Economics Club with the theme "Good Nutrition, A Wartime Challenge." Left to right are Mrs....
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Ann L. Schmich

Date: 01 18 1945
Description: Ann L. Schmich, Director of Visiting Nurse service, sponsored by the Attic Angels.
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Jeanne DeBarr, Forsberg Box Company Employee

Date: 02 01 1945
Description: Jeanne DeBarr, a blind employee working at Forsberg Box Company, with her dog.

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