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Woodrow Wilson at Shadow Lawn

Date: 10 28 1916
Description: Woodrow Wilson campaigning for his second term as president. He is wearing a leather finger protector due to injury from too many handshakes that accompani...
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Lyndon Johnson signs Medicare Bill

Date: 07 30 1965
Description: President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs the Medicare bill. Former President Harry S. Truman, "who started it all," is present with Mrs. Bess Truman, Hubert H...
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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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James L. Clark, City Health Inspector

Date: 09 20 1947
Description: James L. Clark, Madison city health inspector, shown pointing to a map of Madison marked with X's signifying places with rat infestation.
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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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The La Valle Story Photographs

Date: 05 03 1949
Description: William Frazier, village president, sitting at a drug store counter visiting with druggist Burt Blank in the village of La Valle.
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Governor Rennebohm Signs Appropriation Bill

Date: 07 29 1949
Description: Governor Rennebohm signing an appropriation bill for $1,000,000 that will fund 94 added positions at the state's mental institutions. Watching him sign are...
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Groundbreaking for Madison General Hospital Addition

Date: 07 10 1950
Description: Edward J. B. Schubring (left), president of Madison General hospital association, and City Manager Leonard G. Howell wield the shovels at the groundbreakin...
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 12 09 1951
Description: City Attorney Harold E. Hanson has his blood pressure taken by Mary Clancy, Red Cross blood center staff nurse.
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 12 09 1951
Description: Alderman Lyle R. Andrews, 7th ward, donates blood while lying on a gurney as Red Cross staff nurse Marge Schmitz looks on. Two nurses and other donors can ...
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Secretary Shalala

Date: 1994
Description: Donna Shalala, Secretary of Health and Human Services and former Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, unveils a bust of Congressman William H...
Map or Atlas

Street Map of Milwaukee County

Date: 1976
Description: A street map of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin that identifies the location of schools, hospitals, parks, beaches, streets, freeways, both planned or under co...
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Wilbur J. Cohen at His Swearing-In as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare

Date: 05 16 1968
Description: Wilbur J. Cohen receives comments from a woman in a wheelchair after his swearing-in as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Among his responsibilit...
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Wilbur J. Cohen and Comprehensive Health Care

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Description: Wilbur J. Cohen, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, discussing a poster board about comprehensive health care with an unidentified man.
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Arthur J. Altmeyer and Allen V. Astin in a Gib Crockett Cartoon

Date: 04 25 1936
Description: The cartoon by Gib Crockett shows the Altmeyer and Astin figures wearing bandages and crutches, as though they have been beaten up. From a radio nearby the...

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