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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 ...
Photograph

Community Pharmacy

Date: 07 10 1975
Description: Entrance to the WSA Community Pharmacy, located on the campus of the University of Wisconsin.
Photograph

Friendly Badger

Date: 12 19 1968
Description: A vocational student holds a badger at The Ranch, a training center for mentally and physically disabled young adults.
Photograph

Truax Hospital Heating Building

Date: 01 22 1943
Description: Hospital heating building at Truax Army Air Field, from the east side.
Photograph

Woman Sitting in Chair with Cane

Date: 
Description: Woman posing sitting in a chair and holding a cane in the yard of a house, probably Mrs. Hassel Phillips.
Photograph

School for the Deaf

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior view of School for the Deaf. School also called State Institute for the Deaf and Dumb. Walker Hall, which is on the right, was added to the school...
Photograph

Fort Howard Hospital

Date: 1910
Description: Fort Howard hospital, view of exterior of building with front porch and entrance.
Photograph

Surgeons' Quarters

Date: 1895
Description: Front view of the Fort Howard surgeons' quarters.
Photograph

Fort Howard Hospital

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

Lutheran Hospital

Date: 1909
Description: View across street toward the hospital. Caption reads: "Lutheran Hospital, La Crosse, Wis."
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...
Postcard

St. Nicholas Hospital

Date: 1905
Description: Exterior view of St. Nicholas Hospital. An automobile is parked at the corner. Caption reads: "St. Nicholas Hospital, Sheboygan, Wis."
Photograph

Harvester Farm Exhibit at Museum of Science and Industry

Date: 1946
Description: Men and women working on the Harvester Farm exhibit at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.
Postcard

Riverside Sanitarium

Date: 1905
Description: View across road toward the building which is surrounded by a fence. Caption reads: "The Riverside Sanitarium, Menlo Park, Milwaukee."
Photograph

Marshfield Clinic

Date: 05 1959
Description: Exterior of clinic.
Photograph

Theta Mead in Wagon

Date: 1922
Description: Theta Mead in a horse-drawn wagon along with another woman and three children.
Photograph

Poor Farm and Grounds

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view of Poor Farm on the grounds of the Winnebago County Asylum. There is a large barn, silo, windmill, and the roof of a large building in the ba...
Photograph

Winnebago County Asylum Driveway

Date: 1930
Description: Tree-lined driveway on the Winnebago County Asylum grounds.
Photograph

Winnebago County Asylum Barn

Date: 1930
Description: Barn with stone foundation on the Winnebago County Asylum grounds. In the foreground behind a fence is a herd of cattle, and to the right is a man standing...
Photograph

Winnebago County Asylum Farm

Date: 1930
Description: View over fence of a man wearing a hat using a tilling tool in a garden presumably belonging to the Winnebago County Asylum farm.

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