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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.
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Red Cross First Aid Training

Date: 02 11 1942
Description: Two women applying bandages to a female patient with a nurse looking on. They are Wisconsin State Capitol employees learning first aid from the Red Cross.
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Heart Kitchen

Date: 09 17 1952
Description: Pauline Rehder working in the Heart Kitchen at Madison Vocational and Adult School. The Heart Kitchen, for women with heart disease, allows the cook to wo...
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Mrs. Eda Haugsland

Date: 03 22 1945
Description: Mrs. Eda Haugsland, 207 North Pinckney Street, sewing lapel decorations for the Dane County homework shops which employ persons with disabilities.
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Police First Aid Training

Date: 11 16 1945
Description: Dane County traffic police receiving first aid training. Officer Rodney Burgenske is performing artificial respiration on Lieut. A.C. Pope while Capt. O.F....
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Police First Aid Training

Date: 11 16 1945
Description: Dane County traffic police receiving first aid training. They are demonstrating the correct way for carrying a victim. From left are Lieut. A.C. Pope, an...
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Wisconsin Homecraft Program

Date: 03 31 1949
Description: Gilbert Ripp of Waunakee works at a loom at the Wisconsin Homecraft Program, a part of the rehabilitation division of the State Board of Vocational and Adu...
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Tuberculosis Patient

Date: 11 15 1949
Description: Doris Trameri of 568 Park Lane, previously diagnosed with tuberculosis, brushed up on her typing and attended other classes in shorthand and bookkeeping wh...
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Easter Seal Sales Help the Handicapped

Date: 03 10 1952
Description: Matt Esser is learning how to weave under Mrs. Mina Dutton's direction. Mrs. Dutton is one of the instructors at the Wisconsin Homecraft Training center, ...
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Madison General Hospital Nurse Capping Ceremony

Date: 06 13 1952
Description: Group portrait of 48 Madison General Hospital student nurses on the event of their 'capping ceremony' which marks the end of their first year of training. ...
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Medical Auxiliary Aids Nurses' Project

Date: 08 11 1952
Description: "Assisting in the compiling of reference notebooks for prospective nurses are the four wives of doctors pictured above. From left to right, they are Mrs. O...
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"Heart Kitchen" for the Cardiac Patient

Date: 09 17 1952
Description: The "heart kitchen," a new kitchen designed to show women with heart trouble how to cut their work in half, recently constructed in the Madison Vocational ...
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Efficient Dishwashing

Date: 01 21 1953
Description: Mrs. Harry Segerstrom, Cuba City, sitting while washing dishes at a sink, demonstrating efficient dish washing methods for people with limited physical abi...
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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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Lesson on Flies in Classroom

Date: 1915
Description: A student is using a pointer to direct the attention of seated students toward a poster labeled "Life Cycle of a Fly" during a lesson on the dangers of hou...
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Theology Students Get Clinical Training

Date: 03 03 1954
Description: Rev. James R. Love (left), chaplain at Mendota State Hospital for the Mentally Ill, sits at a desk beside four ministers receiving twelve weeks of clinical...
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Theology Students Get Clinical Training

Date: 03 03 1954
Description: An unnamed Mendota patient (left) and Kenneth Smith (right), a theology student receiving 12 weeks of training at Mendota State Hospital for the Mentally I...
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Reverend M.A. Rowlands And Lowell Colston

Date: 08 04 1954
Description: Reverend M.A. Rowlands (left) of Vellore, India and Lowell Colston of Chicago take part in the clinical pastoral training program at Mendota State Hospital...
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Wisconsin State Student Nurses Association Convention

Date: 09 18 1954
Description: Mary Verhagen of St. Mary's Hospital and Nancy Reid of University Hospitals present a check to Harold Gauer, Wisconsin director of CARE.
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Wisconsin State Student Nurses Association Convention

Date: 09 18 1954
Description: Three Madison General nursing students sit at a luncheon banquet table at Tripp Commons of the Memorial Union. They include Nancy Miner, Sara Lien, and Nan...

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