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Operating Theater

Date: 1902
Description: Dr. Nicholas Senn demonstrates surgical techniques at Rush Medical College.
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A Star Is Born

Date: 05 18 1937
Description: Evelyn Canfield, in Madison General Hospital bed, looks to her newborn baby, David, who won the Orpheum Theatre's fourth anniversary "A Star Is Born" conte...
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Eye Exam

Date: 11 06 1933
Description: Dr. John E. Hughes, optometrist, tests a patient's vision in his office at 112 E. Main Street, using an eyeglass lens machine.
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Pre-Camp Physical

Date: 07 14 1933
Description: Doctor John E. Gonce examining a child's throat while other children wait in line, in order to go to "The Capital Times" Kiddie Camp.
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Children Patients at the Morningside Tuberculosis Sanitorium

Date: 08 08 1950
Description: Three children patients at the Morningside Tuberculosis Sanitorium, 300 Femrite Drive, are pictured with their teacher, Murva James (center), and Dr. W.D. ...
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Patients Dining at Saint Mary's Sanatorium

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a group of patients in formal dress gathering around a long table for dinner at Saint Mary's Sanatorium, founded in 1880 by Bisho...
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Patients Dining at Saint Mary's Sanatorium

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Description: A group of patients in formal dress gathering around tables for dinner at Saint Mary's Sanatorium, founded by Bishop Salpointe. Windows and a set of door...
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Baseball Stars Tour Veterans Hospital

Date: 01 28 1954
Description: Robert (Red) Wilson (left), one of Wisconsin's all-time football and baseball greats and a catcher for the Chicago White Sox, acts as catcher behind bat ho...
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Baseball Stars Tour Veterans Hospital

Date: 01 28 1954
Description: University of Wisconsin sports alumni and professional baseball players "Red" Wilson and Harvey Kuenn take a tour through the Veterans Hospital, talking an...
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Theology Students Get Clinical Training

Date: 03 03 1954
Description: An unnamed Mendota patient (left) and Kenneth Smith (right), a theology student receiving 12 weeks of training at Mendota State Hospital for the Mentally I...
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Sertoma Club Gifts for Wisconsin Central Colony

Date: 01 06 1961
Description: Young patients at Wisconsin Central Colony play on one of the slides recently donated by the Sertoma Club. Watching and assisting the children are William ...
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Veterans Hospital

Date: 05 11 1961
Description: Wisconsin legislators visit the Veterans Hospital in Madison.
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Patrick Lucey Visiting a Sick Boy

Date: 12 22 1971
Description: Governor Patrick J. Lucey sitting on a hospital bed holding something in his hands. A young boy, Douglas Huete, is sitting on the bed wearing a hospital go...
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Public Health Clinic, Town of Lake

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Description: Two men are checking children with stethoscopes, another man is looking into a girl's mouth, and two women are writing in notepads. Other women and many ch...
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Doctor's Office

Date: 11 04 1914
Description: Three men and a woman are treating a man in a doctor's office. Seen through an open doorway behind them are other people sitting in a room in the backgroun...

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