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Traveling Medicine Wagon

Date: 1902
Description: A traveling medicine wagon with saleswomen and vendor selling Westmore's Hair Tonic.
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Doctor James T. Reeve

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Description: Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype oval-framed portrait of Doctor James T. Reeve, assistant surgeon, 10th Wisconsin, Surgeon of the 21st Wisconsin. Quarter-leng...
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Out of Action

Date: 01 13 1967
Description: Dejected skier at home with cast and crutches, after breaking her leg practicing for competition.
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Polio Shot Time

Date: 11 15 1955
Description: All seven siblings in the Marnell family lining up for their polio inoculations.
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St. Joseph's Computer

Date: 12 14 1967
Description: A secretary in the pathology department at St. Joseph's Hospital working at a new computer.
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Jane Jennings

Date: 1865
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Jane Jennings, a Civil War nurse. She was raised in rural Green County, Wisconsin, and when her brother Guilford Jen...
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Mrs. Charles J. Hjort

Date: 1911
Description: Studio portrait of Mrs. Charles J. Hjort.
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Clara Bogenschild

Date: 04 29 1910
Description: Notorized portrait of Clara Bogenschild wearing a light-colored dress with an elaborate collar.
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Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Moore

Date: 1908
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Jerome J. Moore outdoors at their home next to the Wisconsin Central Railroad tracks. Mr. Moore has a pipe in his mouth and is walking on crut...
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Nichols School Fourth Graders Visit Classmate in Hospital

Date: 10 11 1950
Description: Fourth graders at Nichols School, Monona, visit their classmate, Burt Fernstrom of 5124 Winnequah Road, who is a patient at St. Mary's Hospital. Standing l...
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Tuberculosis Survivor Repairs Typewriters

Date: 11 12 1951
Description: Robert Lawrence works as an apprentice mechanic at Royal Typewriter Company after his recovery from tuberculosis.
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Clara Barton

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Description: Quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Clara Harlowe Barton. On April 20, 1862, after the First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas), she established an...
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Sauk County Civil War Veterans

Date: 1915
Description: Group portrait of Sauk County veterans posed outdoors.
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Taking Notes

Date: 10 11 1966
Description: American journalist Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, who covered three wars, taking notes on an interview with Major Kim Pil Dal, a Korean nurse in Vietnam. Capti...
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Christmas Greetings from the Bryntesons

Date: 1970
Description: Photo holiday greeting card of the Brynteson family. Four portraits show the various members of the family, including a dog.
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Nurse Taking Patient's Temperature

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Description: A nurse, possibly a student nurse, looks at a thermometer after taking the temperature of a female patient laying in bed.
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Judkins Family Baking

Date: 1913
Description: Leonore Judkins, later Mrs. Forest Middleton, center, prepares baked goods with her mother, far left, and sisters, Juanita, Bonnie, and Blanch. Bread and r...
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Face Dyspepsia Food Advertisement

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Description: Advertisement for Harriet Meta's Face Dyspepsia Food which promised to make your face "round and plump" and to enlarge the bust and to make a "thin scrawny...
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Dr. Jennie Turner

Date: 1923
Description: Dr. Jennie Willins McMullen Turner is seated at a desk in her office. This image was made before her goiter operation.
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Nurse Teaching Saipan Internees

Date: 03 1945
Description: United States Army nurse, Mary Harrington, teaches female internees in Saipan, gathered outdoors in the grass with Saipan women. Harrington is smiling and ...

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