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Haywood Family

Date: 02 15 1956
Description: Myrtle Haywood and her 6-month old son, Skip, posing for a happy picture after she recovered from cataract surgery, and the baby recovered from prickly hea...
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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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First Governor's Conference on an Aging Population

Date: 05 28 1956
Description: Health is a major area being explored at the First Governor's Conference on an Aging Population. Dr. George Stebbins checks the blood pressure of Florence...
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Madison General Hospital Junior Aide Program

Date: 05 13 1957
Description: Junior Aide volunteer Kathleen Hensen reading a story to 4-year-old Jennifer Bahowick at her bedside in Madison General Hospital.
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Madison General Hospital Junior Aide Program

Date: 05 13 1957
Description: Madison General Hospital Junior Aide volunteer Betsy Dye delivers a plant to Mrs. M.C. Palmer at her bedside.
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 07 01 1957
Description: Chester L. Gill receives a blood transfusion from nurses Marion Hackett and Ann Drollinger at Madison General Hospital. The Gill family has been volunteer ...
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Student Nurse Week

Date: 10 07 1957
Description: Methodist Hospital student nurse Sandra Sheller writes a letter home for patient Ray Zimmerman from Murphysboro, Illinois. She is taking part in the state-...
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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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Sale of Christmas Seals Help Tuberculosis Patients

Date: 11 12 1957
Description: Portrait of Phyllis Kauffman, a tuberculosis patient at Lake View Sanatorium, with her husband, Robert, taken while he shows her pictures of their 7-month ...
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Sale of Christmas Seals Help Tuberculosis Patients

Date: 11 12 1957
Description: Physical therapist Robert Straelczyk gives a diathermy treatment for spinal arthritis to Swen Auestad, at Lake View Sanatorium, where Mr. Auestad is also a...
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Sale of Christmas Seals Help Tuberculosis Patients

Date: 11 12 1957
Description: Virgil Chadwick from Cuba City sits at his typewriter at Lake View Sanatorium where he is a tuberculosis patient. Mr. Chadwick is taking a writing course t...
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Sale of Christmas Seals Help Tuberculosis Patients

Date: 11 11 1957
Description: Judy Schroeder of Reedsburg, a patient at Lake View Sanatorium, sits at a desk while painting. While preparing for heart surgery, it was discovered that sh...
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Sale of Christmas Seals Help Tuberculosis Patients

Date: 11 12 1957
Description: Lorena Coffee of Black River Falls cuddles her 2-year-old daughter, Dawn, who is a tuberculosis patient at Morningside Sanatorium.
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Children's Ward

Date: 1920
Description: Light from a large window brightens the children's ward at Madison General Hospital. A nurse in cap and uniform stands in the left foreground. A young gi...
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Blood Donors Keep Patient Alive

Date: 09 10 1959
Description: Tim Farrell and his mother, Mrs. Leslie Farrell, Pine Bluff, entertain "blood kin" Dr. Herbert Howe whose blood helped keep Tim alive during open heart sur...
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Santa Visits Children at Hospital

Date: 12 21 1959
Description: 3-year-old Mary Anderson (right) listens to Santa Claus at a party sponsored by the Madison Firefighters Union Local 311.
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Santa Visits Children at Hospital

Date: 12 21 1959
Description: Martha Nelson (right) of Oxford looks on as Mary Anderson examines a toy nurse's kit she received from Santa Claus.
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Santa Visits Children at Hospital

Date: 12 21 1959
Description: Santa presents a wrapped present in striped paper to Ricky Madsen, who is wearing striped pajamas and a striped night-cap. There is a Christmas tree in the...
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Santa Visits Children at Hospital

Date: 12 21 1959
Description: Santa autographs an above the knee full leg cast worn by Deborah Sosinsky as she looks on from her wheelchair.
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Ladies in Pink Auxiliary at St. Mary's Hospital

Date: 09 11 1960
Description: Joan Beyer (left), a patient at St. Mary's Hospital, receives a plant from Mary Kretschman, chairman of the new flower and mail service of the Ladies in Pi...

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