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Lake View Tuberculosis Sanitarium

Date: 04 27 1931
Description: Lake View TB Sanitarium operating room. There is a large window along the back wall.
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Operating Room

Date: 1911
Description: Doctors and nurses surround a patient on a gurney in an operating room at Stobhill General Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland.
Postcard

Building No. 4, State Home

Date: 1910
Description: Building No. 4, then known as the Wisconsin House for the Feeble-Minded. Caption reads: "Building No. 4, State Home, Chippewa Falls, Wis."
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Fort Hill

Date: 1902
Description: Confederate "Fort Hill" on the south side of Jackson Road where the Confederate entrenchments run southward. The Siege of Vicksburg lasted from May to July...
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Operating Room at the United States Naval Hospital

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Description: Interior of an operating room at the United States Naval Hospital, established in 1834 on the original site of Fort Nelson. The view includes operating tab...
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Operating Room at Saint Mary's Hospital

Date: 1920
Description: Interior of an operating room at Saint Mary's Hospital, completed May 18, 1859 and designed by Anthony Bley. An operating table, lights, and other surgical...
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Madison General Hospital Addition

Date: 07 14 1952
Description: View of the new operating room in the Madison General Hospital addition, showing the lights and equipment.
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Madison General Hospital Operating Room

Date: 05 13 1953
Description: View of a surgical procedure in process at Madison General Hospital. Student nurses are observing from a glassed-in gallery at the rear.
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Students Tour Hospital Delivery Room

Date: 01 23 1968
Description: Students wearing face masks and sterile gowns visit the delivery room at Doctors Hospital as part of a family living class. The student on the right who is...
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Operating Table at Northern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled

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Description: The operating table at the Northern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 690-696

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Description: For any master line drawn fine enough or spoken well
let us call all professionals to wear the laurel
and deck the Halls of Fame
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Lon Chaney and Raymond McKee in a scene still

Date: 1922
Description: In a medical operating room, Robert Sandell (played by Raymond McKee) is shocked by what he has read in the notepad that the Hunchback (Lon Chaney) has giv...
Book or Pamphlet

Holy Family Hospital, Operating Room

Date: 1901
Description: View of the brightly lit, tiled floor operating room. Cast-iron furniture includes an operating table, with a slanted central opening for drainage of fluid...
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Game Farm Laboratory

Date: 10 1935
Description: A man wearing a white surgical gown and gloves is standing at a surgical table. He is performing a necropsy on a small animal. There is a double basin stan...
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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: Surgeon Dr. K.K. Rossmann preparing for surgery at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic. He is scrubbed up for the operating room in his gloves, hat and robe....
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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: The operating room at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic.
Postcard

Madison General Hospital, Operating Room, Surgical Department

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Description: Interior view of a naturally lit operating room furnished with gurneys and tables for medical equipment. Caption reads: "Madison General Hospital, Madison,...
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Typical Day of a Student Nurse

Date: 01 03 1958
Description: Student nurse, Mary Jo Oxem (left) in surgical garb assisting a surgeon in an operating room. As one of the 125 students of St. Mary's School of Nursing, s...
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Wisconsin State Journal Reporter John Newhouse

Date: 07 31 1958
Description: Wisconsin State Journal reporter John Newhouse is shown in Wisconsin General Hospital operating room garb as he reports on a new drug developed in W...
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Urea used for Brain Surgery at University Hospital

Date: 07 31 1958
Description: A brain surgery operation is in progress at the University of Wisconsin Hospital. A urea and inert sugar solution developed at the University is used to lo...

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