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| Date: | 01 23 1951 |
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| Description: | Four members of the University League make aprons for the homecrafters to wear while they do their craft work for the state rehabilitation center at Truax ... |
| Date: | 01 23 1951 |
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| Description: | Two Junior Division University League members are shown with a trainee at the League's homecrafters' program at Truax Field. Seated at a weaving loom is t... |
| Date: | 02 15 1951 |
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| Description: | The Dane County 40 and 8 Chapter Number 684 World War I veterans group presents its annual contributions to four county child welfare programs. Left to rig... |
| Date: | 02 20 1951 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Myrtle Cadwell, a retired nurse, butters a piece of bread as two of her three children, Kristi and Carlton, look on. As a graduate nurse she could be ... |
| Date: | 02 27 1951 |
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| Description: | Forty nursing students at St. Mary's Hospital School of Nursing receive their caps at a ceremony in the hospital chapel. The nurses have successfully compl... |
| Date: | 03 05 1951 |
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| Description: | Red Cross nurse instructor, Dorothy Wylde, at right, teaches proper contents of a home medicine chest to Marjorie Hagan, left, and Dorothy Currere, student... |
| Date: | 03 07 1951 |
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| Description: | Blood collection volunteers are instructed by Elizabeth Bell, right, chair of Red Cross volunteer services. Seated, left to right: Rosa Fred, canteen worke... |
| Date: | 03 20 1951 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 01 1951 |
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| Description: | Two officials of the Madison General Hospital Association and a workman are pictured with Mayor George Forester, far right, at the cornerstone laying prior... |
| Date: | 06 14 1951 |
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| Description: | Volunteer nurses Mrs. J.W. Brown and Mrs. R.H. Olsen work at the year-old Red Cross Regional Blood Center in Madison. |
| Date: | 08 02 1951 |
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| Description: | Bonnie Wainscott (left), age 16, and her mother Mrs. Grace Wainscott are greeted by Francis M. Higgins, President of Wisconsin Central Airlines. The Wainsc... |
| Date: | 09 16 1951 |
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| Description: | Dr. Morris Thomas, left, manager of the new Veterans Administration Hospital in Madison, greets Major General Carl R. Gray, Jr., administrator of veterans ... |
| Date: | 10 16 1951 |
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| Description: | Crowds of shoppers watch the demonstration of a polio resistance exerciser held in a store display window. Dick Murphy, captain of the U.W. boxing team, is... |
| Date: | 10 16 1951 |
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| Description: | Representing the Visiting Nurses Service is Mrs. Anna Forbis, 6112 Wingra Street. More than nine hundred volunteer workers are involved in a house-to-house... |
| Date: | 10 16 1951 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a polio resistance exerciser. Dick Murphy, captain of the U.W. boxing team, is shown receiving "treatment" on the machine given by Frank Lam of... |
| Date: | 10 22 1951 |
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| Description: | On Girl Scout Sunday, Dane County scouts and their leaders begin the seven service days of Girl Scout week, celebrated nationally to honor Julliette Low, f... |
| Date: | 10 31 1951 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Mary Reinke, a teacher at the Kiddie Camp Rest Home, 1650 Norman Way, reads to two of her pupils who are rheumatic fever patients at the rest home. Th... |
| Date: | 11 12 1951 |
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| Description: | Zellie Jackson of 522 East Wilson Street, a tuberculosis patient at Lake View Sanatorium, listens to a radio while lying in bed. |
| Date: | 12 09 1951 |
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| Description: | Mayor and Mrs. George and Frances Forster prepare to donate blood as volunteer Grey Lady Mrs. Margory Colvin (left) looks on. |
| Date: | 11 12 1951 |
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| Description: | Marguerite Willenberg of 1027 East Johnson Street, a tuberculosis patient at Morningside Sanatorium, is sitting in a wicker rocking chair while knitting. |
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