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Nurse Molly Hackett

Date: 08 31 1955
Description: Nurse Molly Hackett, a staff nurse at Madison General Hospital.
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Madison Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 04 11 1949
Description: Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen standing at her car ready to start her daily activities.
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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 demonstrates to Amy C. Shumway the correct way to bathe her daughter, Carol Louise.
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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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"Well Baby" Clinic

Date: 06 01 1950
Description: Dr. Ruth Foster, left, is shown examaning baby Janet Lee Sommerville while assisted by Nurse H. Anita Anderson as the mother, Mrs. Robert Somerville, is lo...
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Else Heine

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Description: A portrait of Else Heine, a nurse.
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Polio Survivors Value March of Dimes

Date: 12 28 1954
Description: Mrs. William J. (Salome) Fix, caretaker of premature babies at St. Mary's Hospital, holds one of her tiny patients. She was diagnosed with polio in 1949.
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Professional Women in Madison

Date: 01 29 1957
Description: Portrait of Margery MacLachlan, Director of U.W. School of Nursing.
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St. Mary's Hospital Neuropsychiatric Treatment Center Dedication

Date: 03 21 1957
Description: The original caption states: "here, trying out the comfortable setting of the patients' living room are Irene Gruendler, Sister Mary of the Angels, Mary El...
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St. Mary's Hospital Neuropsychiatric Treatment Center Dedication

Date: 03 21 1957
Description: Dr. Edward Bruckner, pathologist, Sister Mary Seraphia, S.S.M., administrator of the hospital, and Eleanor DeMeuse, supervisor nurse, conferring in the gla...
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Madison General Hospital Student Nurses

Date: 04 05 1957
Description: Group portrait of sixty four Madison General Hospital student nurses after their capping ceremony at the First Congregational Church.
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Home Nursing Class

Date: 1942
Description: Image of outdoor group portrait from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with members of a Red Cross home nursing class held January-May 1942 at the se...
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Mrs. Irving F. Frautschi, Senior Citizen

Date: 08 03 1958
Description: Mrs. Irving F. Frautschi of Route 1 in Waunakee, age 71, is a senior citizen who had worked as a registered nurse.
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St. Mary's Student Nurse Tour

Date: 09 04 1957
Description: Descending the steps from the Wisconsin State Capitol building are five new St. Mary's Hospital School of Nursing students on a tour of Madison. Left to ri...
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Nurse Rechard

Date: 1895
Description: A woman identified as Nurse Rechard stands in profile on the bottom step of a small flight of porch stairs. She is holding a tray with glassware on it.
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Mendota State Hospital Employees Honored

Date: 12 11 1958
Description: Shown in center is Gustave Pasicka, who is being honored as he retires from serving as a hospital aid at Mendota State Hospital. With him, at left, are: Ja...
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Red Cross Volunteer Thank You Tea

Date: 12 1959
Description: The Red Cross Volunteer "thank you" tea is held at the home of the University of Wisconsin president. Left to right are Mrs. Dorothy Schar, volunteer commi...
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We Saw You at Nurses Association Spring Banquet

Date: 05 10 1960
Description: Four members of the Madison district of the Wisconsin Nurses Association chat at the Association's spring banquet. From left to right are: Marjorie Paquin,...
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Dane County Health Survey Meeting

Date: 03 1955
Description: Christ Bultman, Madison; Mrs. Lucile Graves, director of the Dane County Public Health Nursing Service; and Dr. William T. Russell, Sun Prairie, discuss th...

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