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Handicraft Sales at Wisconsin Memorial Hospital

Date: 03 04 1932
Description: Handicrafts, including wicker furniture and rugs on display at the sales display room in Wisconsin Memorial Hospital, on Farwell Point, adjoining Mendota M...
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Dr. August Sauthoff

Date: 12 18 1947
Description: Dr. August Sauthoff, clinical director and assistant superintendent of Mendota State Hospital, retired January 31, 1948 at the age of 72.(Mendota Mental He...
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Dr. Walter J. Urben

Date: 01 28 1948
Description: Portrait of Dr. Walter J. Urben, newly appointed superintendent of Mendota State hospital, who started work on Sunday Feb. 1st 1948. He was previously dire...
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Dr. Walter Urben

Date: 02 11 1948
Description: Dr. Walter Urben, superintendent of Mendota State Hospital, shown examining an X-ray machine that is part of the equipment of the Veterans Administration h...
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Mendota State Hospital

Date: 08 11 1948
Description: Mendota State Hospital student volunteers shown assisting Dr. Adolf Soucek give a patient electric shock treatment. The University of Wisconsin students ar...
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University of Wisconsin Medical School Program

Date: 06 27 1949
Description: University of Wisconsin Medical school and the State Department of Public Welfare have started a program of mutual-help. Dr. Walter J. Urben, superintenden...
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Wisconsin Diagnostic Center

Date: 09 10 1954
Description: Dedication of the Wisconsin Diagnostic Center for the intensive study of mentally and emotionally disturbed young people, referred to it by the state Dept....
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St. Mary's Hospital Neuropsychiatric Treatment Center Dedication

Date: 03 21 1957
Description: Dr. Edward Bruckner, pathologist, Sister Mary Seraphia, S.S.M., administrator of the hospital, and Eleanor DeMeuse, supervisor nurse, conferring in the gla...
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Alcoholism Program at Mendota

Date: 05 05 1961
Description: Dr. Richard Thurrell, psychiatrist, stands at the front of a classroom in Mendota State Hospital trading ideas with a group of patients who are alcoholics.
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Dr. Richard Thurrell

Date: 05 05 1961
Description: Portrait of Dr. Richard Thurrell, a psychiatrist at Mendota State Hospital.
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Mendota Hospital Centennial Event

Date: 07 16 1960
Description: Present day hospital administrators consider the centennial pageant of the history of Mendota State Hospital a success. They are, left to right: Dr. Walter...
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Careers in Mental Health

Date: 04 26 1959
Description: Two young women doctors who are completing their residencies in psychiatry at the University Hospitals, are shown discussing a case. Seated on the left is...

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