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Wisconsin General Hospital Room

Date: 09 24 1936
Description: Wisconsin General Hospital room with bed, dresser, bedside stand with lamp, two chairs and a free-standing screen, 1300 University Avenue.
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Lake View Tuberculosis Sanatorium

Date: 04 29 1931
Description: Two patients in beds at the Lake View TB Sanatorium ward, located at 1202 Northport Drive.
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Mendota State Hospital

Date: 08 11 1948
Description: Two students making a bed at the Mendota State Hospital during their University of Wisconsin program to learn the inside workings of a mental institution. ...
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Madison Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 04 11 1949
Description: Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen changes a wound dressing for patient Connie Taylor who is blind and recovering from a fall.
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Madison Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 03 11 1949
Description: Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen caring for elderly resident Clotilda Contell, who she visits regularly.
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Madison Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 04 11 1949
Description: Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen checking on bedridden Richard Pedracine.
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Influenza Victims

Date: 1919
Description: Two children lying sick in bed during the Spanish Flu epidemic.
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Tuberculosis Patient

Date: 11 15 1949
Description: Doris Trameri of 568 Park Lane, previously diagnosed with tuberculosis, posing in her former room at Lake View Sanatorium while knitting argyle socks. She ...
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Easter Seals Beneficiaries

Date: 03 15 1954
Description: Elsie Smavy (right), bedridden in her seventh year of polio and with limited movement in her lower arms, creates embroidery. Her children, Molly, 7, and Ni...
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Holy Family Hospital, Private Room I

Date: 1901
Description: View of a small private room with a cast-iron and brass bed. A single window with sheer dotted Swiss tied-back curtains brightens the room. On the hardwoo...
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Holy Family Hospital, Private Room II

Date: 1901
Description: View of a large, private hospital room with a linen covered cast-iron and brass bed. Two windows with lace tier curtains allow light to enter the room, and...
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Eleanor Holt in the Hospital

Date: 01 27 1919
Description: Eleanor Holt is lying in her hospital bed at Henrotin Memorial Hospital. Her left leg, under the bed sheet, appears to be elevated. There are several frame...
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Portrait of Eleanor Holt

Date: 01 27 1919
Description: A portrait of Eleanor Holt with her face bathed in natural light, sitting in her hospital room. A pillow case is covering the back of the wooden chair. Wea...

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