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Rocking Newborns

Date: 1950
Description: Women feed and rock newborn babies in a neonatal hospital unit.
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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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Nurse in front of Refrigerator

Date: 04 16 1935
Description: A nurse in uniform standing in front of an open refrigerator, checking vials of medicines at the Wisconsin General Hospital.
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Wisconsin General Hospital Interview of Patient

Date: 05 26 1947
Description: Patient being interviewed by nurse, at the State of Wisconsin General Hospital, 1300 University Avenue. For the State Medical Board of Health.
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St. Mary's Pre-Clinical Nursing Students

Date: 03 07 1948
Description: Group portrait of 23 pre-clinical nursing students at St. Mary's school of nursing who have just received their white caps after completing their six month...
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Hospital Room

Date: 1930
Description: Posed view of a patient room in the recently constructed Methodist Hospital, showing a nurse on the telephone near a bed, and a doctor and elderly patient ...
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Nurses' Station

Date: 1930
Description: Posed view of a nurses' station in the recently-constructed Methodist Hospital
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Tomac Plasma Bank

Date: 1944
Description: A woman in a white dress, probably a nurse or volunteer, places a container into a "Tomac Plasma Bank," a refrigeration unit developed by International Har...
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Patient and Nurse at Saint Mary's Sanatorium

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Description: A male patient sits in bed on the porch and receives a meal from a nurse at Saint Mary's Sanatorium, founded in 1880 by Bishop Salpointe. A telephone sits ...
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Physician Attends an Injured Man

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Description: A doctor bandages a man's head at the Dane County Hospital and Home. Another patient waits in the background with a nurse.
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The Kennedy Center for the Hip & Knee at Mercy Medical Center — Interior

Date: 10 31 2003
Description: "Keeping our Friday fish fry tradition alive, Heather delivers a Friday meal featuring fish at Mercy Medical Center."
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Dane County Medical Society Women's Auxiliary

Date: 04 06 1954
Description: Group portrait of four student nurses, recipients of a scholarship from the Dane County Medical Society Women's Auxiliary, in the emergency room at St. Mar...
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Telephone Survey About Cancer

Date: 03 14 1958
Description: Members of the Dane County Medical Society, the Methodist Hospital Nurses' Alumnae Association, and the Dane County Unit of the American Cancer Society pre...
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Woman at Mobile Health Unit Table Filling Out Ledger

Date: 1974
Description: A woman is sitting at a table filling out a ledger. She is wearing red clothing with white piping, and is wearing eyeglasses. She is probably a nurse or nu...
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Women of the Red Cross

Date: 1918
Description: Women of the Dunn County Chapter of the American Red Cross posed with sewing machines in the Stout Institute Building.
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Hospital Employes and Fair Share Boosters

Date: 10 01 1965
Description: Indoor portrait of Orvella Jones (standing), a practical nurse, and Vera Neff, a hospital secretary. They were both employees of the Veterans Administratio...
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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: Nurse Loretta Heitkamp talking on the telephone at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic.
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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: Nurse Marie Holt adjusting the new X-ray machine over a patient lying on the table, while Selma Haase, in the right foreground, is waiting to take a pictur...
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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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Careers in Mental Health

Date: 04 26 1959
Description: Agnes Moore, a psychiatric nurse-in-training, is shown at University Hospital studying the medical report of a patient.

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