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Nurse with Native Americans

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Description: A nurse poses on steps with a Native American mother and four children.
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Public Health Nursing Week

Date: 04 16 1947
Description: Public Health Nursing Week. Helen Guelzow of the Visiting Nurse Service making her daily physical check-up of two University of Wisconsin nursery school ch...
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Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 09 11 1947
Description: Visiting Nurse Service volunteers, sponsored by Attic Angels, interview Mrs. George (Francees) Urbanis, and daughter Carol Jean, eleven weeks old. Voluntee...
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Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 04 19 1948
Description: Visiting nurse Maude Rydberg of the Madison Visiting Nurse Service, shows Mrs. William E. Johnson, the former Jane Weston, the proper way to use the cotton...
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Dr. Elinor Verville

Date: 01 27 1949
Description: Dr. Elinor Verville, left, staff psychologist serving at several of Madison's well-baby centers, discusses with Mrs. Jake Ament her baby's health and behav...
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Nurse with Mothers and Babies

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Description: A nurse sits between two mothers with babies on their laps. They are discussing "individual problems of maternal and child health."
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Registration at the Health Center

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Description: Mothers with babies register at the Health Center. In the background chairs line the walls, and above them are posters on health.
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Waiting for Examination

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Description: Mothers sit with their babies in their arms as they wait for nurses to examine the infants. Infant clothing is hanging on a clothesline strung along the ba...
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Registering at the Health Center

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Description: Women, who are accompanied by their children, register at the Health Center. On the walls are displayed posters on health and food.
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Health Class

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Description: View from behind of group of woman and children sitting in chairs and listening as an instructor points to a chart on the wall. The instructor is teaching ...
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Clothing Demonstration

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Description: A nurse demonstrates several articles of clothing to mothers at the Health Center.
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Health Class

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Description: A nurse points to charts while teaching maternal and infant health to a small class of mothers who have children on their laps.
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Mother with Special Needs Children

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Description: A mother arriving at the Health Center with her special needs children.
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Physical Examination of Young Girl

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Description: A nurse or doctor at the Health Center gives a girl a physical examination as the mother, who is holding a baby, looks on.
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Baby with Nurse and Mother

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Description: A nurse undresses a baby in preparation for a physical examination as the fashionably-dressed mother looks on.
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Three Generations of Native Americans

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Description: Two women and an infant represent three generations of an Indian family. They are posing at the steps of the Health Center, where they are to attend Mother...
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Class for Mothers

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Description: A health care worker is instructing two mothers how to select shoes and stockings for their children. On the wall is a poster on clothing and shoes.
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Polio Victims

Date: 08 02 1951
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...
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Nurse Measuring A Baby

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Description: A nurse and a mother measure the length of a baby girl during an examination.
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Christmas Greetings from the Bryntesons

Date: 1970
Description: Photo holiday greeting card of the Brynteson family. Four portraits show the various members of the family, including a dog.

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