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Operating Room

Date: 1911
Description: Doctors and nurses surround a patient on a gurney in an operating room at Stobhill General Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Dr. Joseph Schneider, Famous Eye Surgeon

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Description: Dr. Joseph Schneider performs surgery on the eye of a man laying on a gurney, with assistance from a nun nurse and another man.
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Chandler B. Chapman

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Description: Ninth plate daguerreotype portrait of Dr. Chandler B. Chapman of Madison, quarter length facing front with torso facing right. Dr. Chapman served as a reg...
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Dr. Sylvia Stuessy

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Description: Portrait of Dr. Sylvia Stuessy.
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Dr. Samuel Barnum Mead, Physician and Botanist

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Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Dr. Samuel Barnum Mead (1799-1880), Illinois-based physician and botanist. Mead, a pioneer in both the fields of medicine and b...
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Dr. Jared Potter Kirtland, Geologist and Physician

Date: 1866
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite of Dr. Jared Potter Kirtland (1793-1877), American scientist. Kirtland, among many other exploits, worked on the 1837 Ohio geolog...
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Theodatus Garlick, Sculptor and Plastic Surgeon

Date: 1872
Description: Reproduction of a carte-de-visite portrait of Theodatus Garlick (1805-1884), American surgeon and sculptor. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, Garlick was one of th...
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Dr. John Lang Cassells, Chemist

Date: 1866
Description: Reproduction of a carte-de-visite portrait of Johnathan Lang Cassells (1808-1866), Scottish-born chemist. Worked as a physician and a Professor of chemistr...
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Physical Examination of Young Girl

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Description: A nurse or doctor at the Health Center gives a girl a physical examination as the mother, who is holding a baby, looks on.
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Physical Examination

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Description: A nurse or doctor gives an infant a physical examination at the Health Center as the baby's mother looks on.
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St. John's Hospital

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Description: Interior of the largest ward in St. John's Hospital, started in 1952. Nurses and doctors are standing by patients. One of the patients is sitting next to a...
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Dr. Jennie Turner

Date: 1923
Description: Dr. Jennie Willins McMullen Turner is seated at a desk in her office. This image was made before her goiter operation.
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Dr. Miloslavich

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Description: Dr. Edward L. Miloslavich (center), formerly a Milwaukee police surgeon, seen here in his office in Zagred, Yugoslavia. Dr. Miloslavich played a role in th...
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A.L. Beier, M.D.

Date: 1938
Description: Portrait of Dr. Augustus Leon Beier of the Northern Wisconsin Colony and Training School.
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A.W. Wilmarth, M.D.

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Dr. Alfred Wilmarth of the Northern Wisconsin Colony and Training School.
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Dr. John H. Vivian

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Description: An autographed portrait of John Vivian.
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Juliet H. Severance

Date: 1893
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Dr. Juliet Severance.
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Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb

Date: 1931
Description: Waist-up portrait of Dr. Kate Newcomb. This photograph was submitted with her application to the Wisconsin Medical Examining Board when she applied for her...
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William F. Petersen M.D.

Date: 1935
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Dr. William F. Petersen (1887-1950). He is wearing a dark suit with a vest and necktie. Dr. Petersen, with his wife, Alm...
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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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