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Historic Medicine Bottles

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Description: Display of 18th and 19th century English medicine bottles.
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Learning about Medicine Bottles

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: Members from the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School meet in the pharmaceutical laboratory where they checked medicinal products and learned to identify...
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Pabst Beer Kettle

Date: 08 15 1984
Description: Richard A. Schulz is checking a kettle of beer brewing at the Pabst Brewery.
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Army Medical Corps Anniversary

Date: 1957
Description: Army Signal Service Corps cuts cake to honor its 40th birthday. The corps consisted of about 4,100 members of whom 300 to 400 are pharmacists in commission...
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Capital Brewery

Date: 1873
Description: Elevated view of employees, along with young children, posed around a wagon loaded with barrels of beer in front of Hausmann's Capital Brewery at the corne...
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Prescription Pharmacy

Date: 08 01 1944
Description: Interior of Prescription Pharmacy at 20 Carroll Street.
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Toto the Clown with Children

Date: 03 18 1932
Description: RKO clown "Toto" distributes cardboard Easter bunnies packed with lollipops from the W.T. Grant Company. This event was held in the 2nd floor playroom at U...
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Four Bottles of Quack Medicines

Date: 04 27 1928
Description: Four bottles of quack medicine taken for for William S. Marshall.
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Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane Kitchen

Date: 1893
Description: Freshly-baked loaves of bread are stacked on tables with bowls and trays of other food items in the large kitchen at the Wisconsin State Hospital for the I...
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Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane Pharmacy Laboratory

Date: 1893
Description: Crocks and bottles of various sizes line shelves, while beakers and mortars and pestles rest on counter tops in the brick-floored pharmaceutical lab at the...
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Party Banquet for Gardner Baking Co. Families

Date: 04 11 1928
Description: Group portrait of Gardner Baking Co. families wearing paper party hats sitting at two long banquet tables. There are Purity Bread signs over the tables whi...
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Tuberculosis Must Go

Date: 05 25 1928
Description: Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to help prevent the spread of tuberculosis. Includes the text: ...
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Health and Safety Poster Illustrating Employee Lunch Rooms

Date: 1916
Description: Poster or signboard with the title: "Lunch Rooms - A Clean and Neat Place to Eat: Makes Food More Palatable." Includes images of lunch rooms or cafeterias ...
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Veterans Administration Hospital

Date: 10 15 1947
Description: Workers and patients at tables in the canteen in a Quonset hut at the Veterans Administration Hospital on the grounds of the Mendota State Hospital.
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Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 04 19 1948
Description: Visiting nurse Maude Rydberg of the Madison Visiting Nurse Service, shows Mrs. William E. Johnson, the former Jane Weston, the proper way to use the cotton...
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Court House Concession

Date: 04 22 1948
Description: Lloyd Harmon, from Belleville, who has been blind from birth, standing at the first concession stand to be erected in the Dane County Court House. The disp...
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Mendota State Hospital

Date: 08 11 1948
Description: Two university students helping serve dinner to patients at Mendota State Hospital. They are John LeSeur from Cornell University on the left, and Roy Klett...
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Help for Fire Victims

Date: 11 28 1948
Description: Valera Widener and her children: Norma (on her lap), Franklin (left), and Lyall (right), in Baron Brothers Department Store drinking milk provided by the E...
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L.A. Toner Cutting Cake

Date: 01 17 1949
Description: L.A. Toner,of Miami, Florida, is shown in his Wisconsin General hospital bed cutting his surprise birthday chocolate cake as his wife looks on. Mrs. Toner ...
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Refugees at a Displaced Persons Camp Celebrate a Soccer Victory

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Description: Refugees at a Displaced Persons camp celebrate a soccer victory over another D.P. camp team; Germany. Saul Sorrin was interviewed as part of the Wiscons...

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