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Farm House and Children's Rheumatic Fever Home

Date: 04 11 1944
Description: William and Frederike Weber farm house on Highway 12-18, near the Yahara River south of Lake Monona. The house was also the Children's Home for Rheumatic F...
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Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 09 11 1947
Description: Visiting Nurse Service, sponsored by Attic Angels, at a child health center at Emerson School. This center is one of five child health centers sponsored by...
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Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 09 11 1947
Description: Visiting Nurse Service volunteers, sponsored by Attic Angels, conduct a child health examination at Longfellow School. Rea Ragatz, center, is watching Dr. ...
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Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital

Date: 11 06 1947
Description: Exterior view of Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital, 1415 Linden Drive.
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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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Children at Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital

Date: 11 06 1947
Description: A ward at the Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital, 1415 Linden Drive, showing three children in cribs, and a small table with three toddlers seated in small chai...
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"Well Baby" Clinic

Date: 06 01 1950
Description: Dr. Ruth Foster, left, is shown examaning baby Janet Lee Sommerville while assisted by Nurse H. Anita Anderson as the mother, Mrs. Robert Somerville, is lo...
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Volunteers at St. Mary's Hospital

Date: 09 19 1950
Description: Florence Crowley, an active volunteer at St. Mary's Hospital, working on a jigsaw puzzle with Ronald Paar, age 9 of Cross Plains, and Kenneth Krall, age 4 ...
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Getting Ready for Kindergarten

Date: 04 25 1952
Description: Dr. A.M. Iams (right), Madison pediatrician, uses a stethoscope to examine Julie Conlin (center), so she will be prepared to enter kindergarten. Her mother...
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Pre-School Physical Exam

Date: 04 13 1953
Description: Cynthia Strassman, who will enter kindergarten next fall, is examined by pediatrician Dr. Richard B. Anderson as part of the Summer Round-Up program. The p...
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Madison's 1958 Red Measles Season

Date: 04 11 1958
Description: Madison's 1958 measles season started with Kurt Tezlaff, at right, then went to Kaye Kennan, then to Kevin Kennan and then to Wendy Kennan. In the Kennan f...
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Madison's 1958 Red Measles Season

Date: 04 11 1958
Description: The 1958 red measles season has started in Madison. Marilyn Kelso, her son Robbie Kelso, seated on her lap, and son Tom Kelso, on the right, received gamma...
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Red Cross Aided Child

Date: 06 10 1959
Description: Donald and Audrey Forrer posing outdoors with their 7-year-old daughter Lydia, pictured riding a bicycle. The Red Cross provided the blood transfusions tha...
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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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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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Telephone Pioneers Aid Hospital Unit

Date: 01 25 1960
Description: Southwest Wisconsin Council of the Telephone Pioneers of America, as their community service project, present a piano to the Children's Unit of University ...

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