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Mobile X-Ray Machine

Date: 08 13 1941
Description: Bus containing mobile x-ray machine with sign, "Wisconsin State Board of Health, Tuberculosis Survey." A male technician is standing beside the bus. The bu...
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Mobile X-ray Machine

Date: 08 13 1941
Description: School bus interior with a mobile x-ray machine. A male technician stands by while another man stands in front of the diagnostic unit.
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Laundress at Madison General Hospital

Date: 02 06 1934
Description: Older woman laundry worker folding items at a table in front of industrial laundry equipment, in the laundry at Madison General Hospital.
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Cooking Turkey

Date: 11 23 1932
Description: Blanche Taylor, dietician at Madison General Hospital, testing turkey in commercial oven in hospital kitchen.
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Nurse's Aid and Infant by Christmas Tree

Date: 11 21 1944
Description: Mrs. Margaret Horstmeier, nurse's aide at Methodist Hospital, shows a Christmas tree ornament to infant John Monegar.
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Portable X-Ray Machine

Date: 03 17 1949
Description: Interior of trailer with portable X-ray machine. Jean Gibbons, X-ray technician, is shown with unidentified woman getting an X-ray.
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Mobile X-Ray Unit

Date: 05 02 1949
Description: Miss Jeanne Gibbons (left), a technician with the Madison Board of Health, explaining the workings of the mobile X-ray unit to members of the Lakewood Scho...
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American Red Cross Center Blood Center

Date: 07 07 1950
Description: Mrs. John (Emily) Sprague, right, nurse's aide at the American Red Cross Center blood bank, preparing to take the temperature of blood donor, Mrs. Richard ...
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American Red Cross Blood Center

Date: 07 07 1950
Description: Volunteer worker Mrs. Charles (Elnora) Wirth stands at the counter in the American Red Cross Blood Center canteen, while nurses' aide Mrs. Gordon (Mabel) N...
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Dane County Red Cross Activities

Date: 03 20 1951
Description: Mrs. Catherine Coffey at St. Mary's hospital, 720 South Brooks Street, where she lives and works as a dietary helper. The Dane County Red Cross was respons...
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Technician with Patient at MRI

Date: 1990
Description: MRI technician guides patient into the machine.
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Methodist Hospital Nurse's Aide

Date: 05 29 1953
Description: Etti Gelan, a nurse's aide at Methodist Hospital, giving a drink of water to a male patient, William Laerk of Waukesha. She left her native country of Germ...
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Madison General Hospital Auxiliary, Flame Photometer

Date: 09 29 1954
Description: Two volunteer workers of the Madison General Hospital auxiliary, Mrs. John F. Mullen (left), West Point, and Mrs. William W. (Melva) Marling of 302 Walnut ...
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University of Wisconsin Student Wives Who Work

Date: 02 07 1956
Description: Dagmar Kammerer works as a nurse's aide at the Wisconsin Diagnostic Center. Her husband, Dagmar Kammerer, is a senior political science major at the Univer...
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Job Interview Tips

Date: 04 10 1957
Description: Sandra Swance, a Central High School student, stands next to a dental chair while wearing a white uniform. She is training on-the-job as a dental aide, dem...
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 07 01 1957
Description: Betty Gregg, chief technologist for the Red Cross in Madison, checks the blood type of volunteer donor George Gill.
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Hospital Communications Workshop

Date: 01 15 1959
Description: The workshop, which consisted of all phases of communication between people, met once a week at the hospital and was directed by the University of Wisconsi...
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Dane County Medical Assistants' Bosses Night

Date: 02 05 1959
Description: Doctors and medical assistants attend the annual Bosses Night party. From left to right are: Dr. Frank Bernard, Peg Clark, Mary Macken, and Dr. Gordon Dave...
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Dr. Lester McGary; Pathologist Honored

Date: 08 29 1959
Description: Portrait of seven women, all former students of pathologist Dr. Lester McGary. They are, left to right: Cleo Kreamer, Jane Worley, Evelyn Welch, Marion Smi...
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Dane County Medical Assistants Party

Date: 12 15 1959
Description: Members of the Dane County Medical Assistants install their new officers at a party held at the Star Dust Supper Club. Left to right are: Terry Klousie, re...

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