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Polio Shot Time

Date: 11 15 1955
Description: All seven siblings in the Marnell family lining up for their polio inoculations.
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Jane Jennings

Date: 1865
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Jane Jennings, a Civil War nurse. She was raised in rural Green County, Wisconsin, and when her brother Guilford Jen...
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Clara Barton

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Description: Quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Clara Harlowe Barton. On April 20, 1862, after the First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas), she established an...
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Taking Notes

Date: 10 11 1966
Description: American journalist Esther Van Wagoner Tufty, who covered three wars, taking notes on an interview with Major Kim Pil Dal, a Korean nurse in Vietnam. Capti...
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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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Nurse Taking Patient's Temperature

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Description: A nurse, possibly a student nurse, looks at a thermometer after taking the temperature of a female patient laying in bed.
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Nurse Teaching Saipan Internees

Date: 03 1945
Description: United States Army nurse, Mary Harrington, teaches female internees in Saipan, gathered outdoors in the grass with Saipan women. Harrington is smiling and ...
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Nurse Boarding Jeep

Date: 03 1945
Description: United States Army nurse, Ann T. Hyland, boarding a Jeep at 148th General Hospital in Saipan. Hyland is wearing a striped jumpsuit and has her hair tied up...
Postcard

A Girl and Boy Dressed as Nurse and Soldier

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of a girl dressed as a nurse and a boy dressed as a soldier standing in front of a painted backdrop. He holds a rifle and she i...
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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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Children and Nurses at Mobile Health Unit

Date: 1974
Description: Children are standing on the steps of the Alfred University School of Nursing Mobile Health Unit. The mobile health unit traveled around communities in All...
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Student Nurse Susan Beckman

Date: 05 01 1971
Description: Susan Beckman, a student nurse at County General Hospital, carries a sign protesting the portrayal of nurses in a movie "The Student Nurses".
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Children's Ward

Date: 1920
Description: Light from a large window brightens the children's ward at Madison General Hospital. A nurse in cap and uniform stands in the left foreground. A young gi...
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Signe Skott Cooper and Mary Herb

Date: 1955
Description: Mary Herb (left), the Wisconsin State Student Nursing Association President and Signe Skott Cooper (right), Wisconsin State Student Nursing Association Adv...
Historical Object

Army Nurse Identification Card

Date: 09 24 1945
Description: The identification card of Signe S. (Skott) Cooper, 1st Lt., ANC. (First Lieutenant, Army Nurse Corps.) The card was issued SEP 25 1945. Her photograph is ...
Photograph

Fern L. Reinhardt

Date: 1934
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Fern L. Reinhardt, smiling on the occasion of her graduation from Nurse's Training. She is wearing her uniform and cap wi...
Photograph

Fern L. Reinhardt

Date: 1937
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Fern L. Reinhardt. She is wearing her uniform, cap and eyeglasses, and a pin on the collar front displaying a cross, and ...
Historical Object

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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