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Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 01 07 1954
Description: Red Cross blood drive at the Wisconsin Telephone Company. Nurses are attending to employees, who are volunteering to donate blood.
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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: Surgeon Dr. K.K. Rossmann preparing for surgery at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic. He is scrubbed up for the operating room in his gloves, hat and robe....
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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: Nurse Loretta Heitkamp talking on the telephone at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic.
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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: Nurse Marie Holt adjusting the new X-ray machine over a patient lying on the table, while Selma Haase, in the right foreground, is waiting to take a pictur...
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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: A nurse standing next to a patient who is exercising at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic.
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Dane County American Legion Forty-and-Eight Banquet

Date: 03 28 1954
Description: At the Annual Dane County American Legion 40-and-8 banquet, they collected money for local charities. In the photograph R.C. Golden hands a check to Clyde ...
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Madison General Hospital Maternity Ward

Date: 06 25 1954
Description: Nurse Meulbrock working in the hospital's new delivery room.
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Staff Meeting, Mendota State Hospital

Date: 08 1955
Description: Nursing staff meeting at Mendota State Hospital.
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Angio-cardiogram X-ray Camera

Date: 10 1955
Description: Slightly elevated view of medical staff examining an angio-cardiograph X-ray camera are (from left): Yvonne Traeder, an X-ray technician; Dr. I.A. Krystose...
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May Day Ceremony Held at St. Mary's Hospital School of Nursing

Date: 05 01 1957
Description: Veronica Goebel (of Racine) is carrying the crown of May flowers to place on the head of a Virgin Mary statue. Maids of Honor in dresses holding posies are...
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Fostering Homeless Infants and Children

Date: 05 02 1957
Description: Foster mothers take homeless infants and children into their homes. Members of the Madison advisory board of the Children's Service Society, a Red Feather ...
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Polio Victim Returns Home After Treatment

Date: 05 22 1957
Description: Robert Jensen, 24 of McFarland, is sitting in a wheelchair after exiting an airplane following a flight from Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he was treated for ...
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81st Birthday party for "Auntie" Benson

Date: 07 03 1957
Description: Madison General Hospital nurses singing "Happy Birthday" to Gunda Benson, who is seated in her wheelchair and surrounded by the group.
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Red Cross Blood Donor

Date: 08 01 1957
Description: Mrs. J. Leonard Brook, from Shepley, England, is shown having her blood pressure checked by Joan Dufresne, a Red Cross nurse. Mrs. Brook's hostess (and di...
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Dane County Office Employees Mop Up After Flood

Date: 08 15 1957
Description: Dane County nurses and secretaries mop the floor of their third-floor public Health Department offices in the City-County Building after a faulty automatic...
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Madison General Student Nurses Receive Bikes in Honor of Student Nurses Week

Date: 10 10 1957
Description: Student nurses at Madison General Hospital standing with bicycles received from the hospital's medical staff as a gift for Student Nurses Week. Shown (left...
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Typical Day of a Student Nurse

Date: 01 03 19
Description: Student nurse, Mary Jo Oxem, at the bedside of a patient. As one of the 125 students of St. Mary's School of Nursing, she is posing for a series of photogr...
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Typical Day of a Student Nurse

Date: 01 03 1958
Description: Student nurse, Mary Jo Oxem (left) in surgical garb assisting a surgeon in an operating room. As one of the 125 students of St. Mary's School of Nursing, s...
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Typical Day of a Student Nurse

Date: 01 03 1958
Description: Student nurse, Mary Jo Oxem, giving water to post surgical patient, Ambrose Bronner. As one of the 125 students of St. Mary's School of Nursing, she is pos...
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Typical Day of a Student Nurse

Date: 01 03 1958
Description: Student nurse, Mary Jo Oxem, with seven of her classmates at the bedside of a young child. They are listening to their nursing instructor, Mrs. James Sapie...

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