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Rocking Newborns

Date: 1950
Description: Women feed and rock newborn babies in a neonatal hospital unit.
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Nurses at Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital

Date: 11 06 1947
Description: Two nurses feeding infants at the Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital, 1415 Linden Drive.
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Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 04 19 1948
Description: Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen of the Madison Visiting Nurse Service is advising Mrs. Chester B. Van Roo, the former Mary Lou Bell, on the care of her chil...
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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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Nurse and Newborn

Date: 1897
Description: A nurse sits with Mrs. D.W. Osborn's week-old newborn.
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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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Examination of a Baby

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Description: Parents watch as their baby is given a physical examination by a woman at the Health Center.
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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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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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Physical Examination

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Description: A nurse or doctor gives an infant a physical examination at the Health Center as the baby's mother looks on.
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Children and Nurses in front of Hospital

Date: 1935
Description: Crowd of women, babies, boys, girls, and nurses standing in front of the Hospital, which was also known as the Wilmarth Mansion. Some of the women are wear...
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Monona Grove Red Cross Bloodmobile Co-Chairman with Two Babies

Date: 02 19 1960
Description: Beth Gehrke, R.N., Monona village's co-chairman for the Monona Grove Red Cross Bloodmobile, is shown holding and gazing upon two three month old babies. Th...
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Give 'till It Helps...Yes, Someone Cares

Date: 10 1961
Description: Visiting Nurses is one of 29 United Givers agencies. It provides free instruction about caring for infants, skilled home-nursing and part-time nursing care...
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Fargo Family

Date: 07 1900
Description: A decorated album page features two photographs of members of the Fargo family posing near the ornate porch of their home. In the photograph on the left, F...
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Nurse with Infant

Date: 1938
Description: A woman in a nurse's uniform is standing and leaning against a cabinet while holding an infant in her arms. Behind her is a clock, a sink, and a wastebaske...

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