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Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross

Date: 11 01 1948
Description: Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross teaching jewelry-making to a group of patients at the Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Gray Ladies, shown at...
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Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross

Date: 11 01 1948
Description: Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross serving tea to two unidentified patients at the Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Left to right are: Mrs. H. ...
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Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross

Date: 11 01 1948
Description: Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross reading outdoors to patients of the Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Shown standing, at left, is Mrs. Willia...
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St. Mary's Hospital Volunteers

Date: 09 19 1950
Description: Volunteers supplement the nursing staff in many ways to accomplish the many tasks in a modern hospital. St. Mary's hospital is fortunate in having an organ...
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St. Mary's Hospital Volunteers

Date: 09 19 1950
Description: Mrs. E.M.(Mary) Lynch, volunteer, arranging flowers and visiting with W.K. Loughborough in a patient room at St. Mary's Hospital. Flower delivery is one of...
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Madison General Hospital Auxiliary

Date: 01 02 1951
Description: Madison General Hospital Auxiliary volunteer worker Goldye Mohr standing at the bedside of Sidney Hargrove, age 2.
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Madison General Hospital Auxiliary

Date: 01 02 1951
Description: Madison General Hospital Auxiliary volunteer worker Mabel Lewis reading to Billy McCord, patient.
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Dane County Medical Society Women's Auxiliary

Date: 04 12 1955
Description: Sally Littig, chairman of the "loan closet" committee of the Women's Auxiliary of Dane County Medical Society visits with Nellie Kedzie Jones who lies in a...
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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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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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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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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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Ladies in Pink Auxiliary at St. Mary's Hospital

Date: 09 11 1960
Description: The Ladies in Pink Auxiliary operates a cart service for the patients Monday through Friday at St. Mary's Hospital. Mildred Downey, the incoming cart worke...
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Gifts For Neurological Patients

Date: 09 29 1960
Description: Pauline Dubner, a patient at the Wisconsin Neurological Foundation, poses in her hospital bed next to a new record player in a case. Behind her stand the f...
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Mental Patients Visit the Zoo

Date: 10 20 1961
Description: Several men and women patients from Mendota State Hospital are watching the bears at the Vilas Park Zoo. A volunteer took them for the outing in her person...
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Red Cross Gray Ladies Volunteer at the Wisconsin Diagnostic Center

Date: 03 04 1958
Description: Red Cross Gray Ladies Mrs. Irving J. Maurer (left, 30 Fuller Drive) and Mrs. Ralph Penniall (right, 37-B University Houses) give advice and assistance to t...

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