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Red Cross First Aid Training

Date: 02 11 1942
Description: Two women applying bandages to a female patient with a nurse looking on. They are Wisconsin State Capitol employees learning first aid from the Red Cross.
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Nurse Alma Padgett Feeding a Patient

Date: 02 20 1942
Description: Nurse Alma Padgett feeding a patient from a tray of food at Mendota State Hospital (Mendota Mental Health Institute).
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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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Mother and Her 17th Baby

Date: 07 22 1935
Description: Clara Halvorson, married to Henry Halvorson, resting with her 17th child, John Skews Halvorson, at Methodist Hospital shortly after the baby's birth. She w...
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Children at Morningside Sanitorium

Date: 06 01 1935
Description: Group portrait of children with tuberculosis and their attendants, and with a man and woman in Salvation Army uniforms, sitting in a classroom at the Morni...
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Mrs. Morrow Holding Twins

Date: 10 30 1934
Description: Portrait of Mrs. Morrow, 21-years-old, sitting and wearing dark eyeglasses due to a medical procedure for an eye infection. Morrow is from Mather, Wisconsi...
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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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Girl in Wheelchair

Date: 09 17 1931
Description: Girl in wheelchair with teacher at Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital for Children, University of Wisconsin, 436 North Randall Street.
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Orthopedic Hospital Classroom

Date: 09 17 1931
Description: Students seated at desks at Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital for Children, University of Wisconsin, 436 North Randall Street.
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Lake View Tuberculosis Sanatorium

Date: 04 29 1931
Description: Two patients in beds at the Lake View TB Sanatorium ward, located at 1202 Northport Drive.
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Lake View Tuberculosis Sanitarium

Date: 04 27 1931
Description: View towards patients in beds, with nurses, on the sun porch at the Lake View Tuberculosis Sanitarium.
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Chest X-Ray

Date: 09 10 1946
Description: A woman, bare from the waist up, standing at the x-ray machine as she is receiving a chest x-ray taken by an attendant at the controls at the Wisconsin Gen...
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Wisconsin General Hospital X-ray Procedure

Date: 05 26 1947
Description: State of Wisconsin General Hospital, at 1300 University Avenue. View showing chest X-ray equipment with a patient in position for the procedure, and a tech...
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Wisconsin General Hospital Interview of Patient

Date: 05 26 1947
Description: Patient being interviewed by nurse, at the State of Wisconsin General Hospital, 1300 University Avenue. For the State Medical Board of Health.
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Patient in Wisconsin General Hospital Hallway

Date: 02 08 1945
Description: Patient being wheeled past laundry baskets and lockers in overcrowded Wisconsin General Hospital basement hallway.
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Junior Red Cross War Related Activities

Date: 08 15 1945
Description: Junior Red Cross members making Christmas tree decorations for military service units and hospitals overseas. Arline Whitefoot, on the right, assists a you...
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Conditions at Mendota State Hospital

Date: 02 06 1947
Description: A woman patient at the Mendota State Hospital (Mendota Mental Health Institute) who is restrained in her bed by a camisole, which prevents the use of her a...
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Conditions at Mendota State Hospital

Date: 02 07 1947
Description: Woman patients at the Mendota State Hospital (Mendota Mental Health Institute) sitting in rocking chairs in the sun room. One of a series of photographs ca...
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Therapy at Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital

Date: 11 06 1947
Description: Two young male patients and an occupational therapist doing an activity at the Wisconsin Orthodpedic Hospital, 1415 Linden Drive.
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Nurses at Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital

Date: 11 06 1947
Description: Two nurses feeding infants at the Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital, 1415 Linden Drive.

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