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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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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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Exhibit for Pregnant Women

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Description: A nurse is showing expectant mothers an exhibit. including maternity clothes. Posters on health are displayed on the wall behind them.
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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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Christmas Greetings To You In Service

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Description: Holiday card with a uniformed nurse standing under mistletoe, while a soldier and a sailor are walking towards her, presumably to kiss her. Inside a red bo...
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Visiting Nurse Service Loan Closet

Date: 08 10 1953
Description: Mrs. Marjorie Southwick, secretary of the Visiting Nurse Service, checks out a pair of crutches and a wheelchair to Miss Agnes Griffith, assistant director...
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Women of the Moose Give Nursing Scholarship

Date: 05 03 1958
Description: The hospital committee of the Madison Chapter, No. 291, of the Women of the Moose present a scholarship to a student nurse in a Madison hospital. Shown, le...
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Madison Visiting Nurse Service Annual Meeting

Date: 10 15 1958
Description: Group portrait of attendees of the annual meeting of the Madison Visiting Nurse Service at the Blackhawk Country Club. Members of the decorating committee ...
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Madison Visiting Nurse Service Annual Meeting

Date: 10 15 1958
Description: The annual meeting of the Madison Visiting Nurse Service at the Blackhawk Country Club. Pictured are board members and the guest speaker, from left to righ...
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Madison Visiting Nurse Service Annual Meeting

Date: 10 15 1958
Description: View of the annual meeting of the Madison Visiting Nurse Service at the Blackhawk Country Club. Pictured are members of the public relations committee, fro...
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Celebrating National Hospital Week

Date: 05 09 1960
Description: Isabel Hughes serves punch to four women who have worked a total of 109 years at University Hospitals. Left to right are: Leone Duddleston with 23 years of...
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Celebrating National Hospital Week

Date: 05 09 1960
Description: Richard Vevle, assistant superintendent at University Hospitals, presents awards, left to right, to: Marie McAsey, with 30 years of service at the hospital...
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Celebrating National Hospital Week

Date: 05 09 1960
Description: Roland Olson, who has worked at University Hospitals for 60 years, chats with Helen Crahen, second from left, and Ida Spiker, right, both of whom have work...
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We Saw You at Nurses Association Spring Banquet

Date: 05 10 1960
Description: Participants in the Nurses Association spring banquet chat before the event. From left to right are: Nellie Brown, Louise Grapenthin, Eleanor Lambertsen (a...
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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...
Poster

Third Red Cross Roll Call

Date: 1918
Description: Poster featuring an illustration of a female nurse in a white uniform with a Red Cross logo on her dress and her hat. She is also wearing a long white veil...
Poster

Red Cross Christmas roll call December 16th to 23rd

Date: 1918
Description: Poster showing a figure of Columbia holding a pen and adorned with a flag and sword, and a Red Cross nurse with a scroll, inscribed "Where Columbia sets he...

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