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Television for Patients

Date: 1950
Description: Hospital or nursing home patients are able to view television in their rooms.
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Corpus Christi Procession at St. Mary's Hospital

Date: 06 03 1945
Description: A Corpus Christi procession in front of St. Mary's Hospital, including four navy men as canopy bearers, two navy men were flag bearers, and candle bearers ...
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Children Dressed as Nurses

Date: 1917
Description: Outdoor portrait of three girls dressed as Red Cross nurses and a boy with a bandage on his head. One girl holds a U.S. flag.
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 11 1950
Description: Nurse Sadie Zum Brunnen tends to a patient, seven-year-old Bonita Gill, at Madison General Hospital. Sadie is a member of the Madison Business and Professi...
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Patients at Saint Mary's Sanatorium

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Description: View of patients resting in chairs and nurses standing near them at Saint Mary's Sanatorium, founded in 1880 by Bishop Salpointe. A large cactus and a palm...
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Porch at Saint Mary's Sanatorium

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Description: View from grounds toward patients sitting on the porch of the rotunda at Saint Mary's Sanatorium, founded in 1880 by Bishop Salpointe. A nurse stands near ...
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Roof Garden at the Central Club for Nurses

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Description: View of the roof garden at the Central Club for Nurses, completed in 1916 by architects Parish and Schroeder. The Central Club for Nurses was built for the...
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Flight Nurses in Training Pool

Date: 1943
Description: Six female flight nurses in a swimming pool during aquatic training at the at Alameda Naval Air Strip. Four of the women are in a raft, and two women are i...
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Madison Visiting Nurse Service Luncheon

Date: 10 10 1954
Description: Among those attending the Madison Visiting Nurse Service fall luncheon at the Blackhawk Country Club are, from left to right: Clara B. Rue, Milwaukee, lunc...
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Madison Visiting Nurse Service Luncheon

Date: 10 20 1954
Description: Among those attending the Madison Visiting Nurse Service fall luncheon at the Blackhawk Country Club are Agnes Griffith and Beulah Aubey, two registered nu...
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Madison Visiting Nurse Service Luncheon

Date: 10 20 1954
Description: Among those attending the Madison Visiting Nurse Service fall luncheon at the Blackhawk Country Club are, from left to right: Rosalie Mayer, treasurer; Rae...
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Madison Visiting Nurse Service Luncheon

Date: 10 20 1954
Description: Among those attending the Madison Visiting Nurse Service fall luncheon at the Blackhawk Country Club are, from left to right: Mrs. John Lobb, newly elected...
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East High School Future Nurse's Club

Date: 05 21 1956
Description: East High School Future Nurse's Club members perform volunteer activities at the Wisconsin Nuerological Hospital. Students Marily Detter (left) and Adeline...
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Student Nurse Week

Date: 10 07 1957
Description: Methodist hospital student nurses Karolyn McCauley (left) and Mary Bach (right) join in a card game with Robert Lloyd of Janesville and Jack Durham (in a w...
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Student Nurse Week

Date: 10 07 1957
Description: Two Methodist Hospital student nurses play checkers with patients at the hospital. At left is Susan Miller and at right is Mary Kane. They are participatin...
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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 27 1959
Description: Mrs. Betty Suhr (left) and Mrs. Jeanne Weber visit at the luncheon table during the annual meeting of the Madison Visiting Nurse Service at Maple Bluff Cou...
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Children as Red Cross Nurses

Date: 07 1918
Description: Young girls costumed as Red Cross nurses for a parade, with a small wagon drawn by a pet dog decorated as a field “ambulance.”
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Disease Immunization, 5th and Hadley

Date: 02 15 1935
Description: A man and a woman administer immunization shots to a line of children.
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Mendota Hospital Centennial Event

Date: 07 16 1960
Description: Employees dress in turn-of-the-century dresses for a scene in a centennial pageant depicting nursing at Mendota State Hospital. The costumes were from the ...

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