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Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 04 19 1948
Description: Visitng Nurse, Mrs. Helen Horehled, is assisting Mrs. Charles W. Swan. Mrs. Swan, age 82, is recuperating from a broken hip and is living with her son and ...
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Madison Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 04 11 1949
Description: Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen changes a wound dressing for patient Connie Taylor who is blind and recovering from a fall.
Poster

Your Job Is Important Too

Date: 1943
Description: Office of Civilian Defense Design No. 8, "The Nurse." The poster features a nurse tending to a fallen soldier. The subtitle at the bottom of the poster rea...
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St. John's Hospital

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Description: Interior of the largest ward in St. John's Hospital, started in 1952. Nurses and doctors are standing by patients. One of the patients is sitting next to a...
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Flight Nurse with Wounded

Date: 1945
Description: Flight nurse, Gwen Jensen, wearing a jumpsuit and a cap, standing and waiting with near an airplane with marine Private First Class George Berier, left, an...
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Flight Nurse with Wounded Soldier

Date: 1945
Description: Flight nurse, Gwen Jensen, with Private first class George Berier. Berier's head is wrapped in gauze, and he is preparing to take medicine. Jensen is weari...
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Flight Nurse on Plane with Wounded

Date: 1945
Description: Flight nurse, Gwen Jensen, on a plane with wounded soldiers. Jensen is wearing a jumpsuit. There are stretchers attached to the sides of the plane with wou...
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Nurse Feeding Wounded Man

Date: 1945
Description: A nurse aboard the USS Samaritan feeding a wounded soldier. The man is sitting up in bed as the nurse is raising a fork full of food to his mouth. T...
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Ward in the Red Cross Hospital

Date: 1918
Description: Indoor group portrait of wounded soldiers in the hospital ward, some of which have been wounded. Others soldiers are in uniform and are presumably uninjure...
Poster

If I Fail He Dies

Date: 1918
Description: World War I poster featuring two nurses in white gowns and hats. One of the women is behind a table preparing bandages, and the other woman is cradling a w...
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Collecting Canes for Wounded Soldiers in Berlin

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Description: Collection point for canes for wounded soldiers in Berlin.
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National Hospital Week

Date: 05 08 1958
Description: Madison mayor Ivan Nestingen visiting a patient at Madison General hospital after proclaiming the week as National Hospital Week. The nurse on the left is ...

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