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Bathing Baby in Tub

Date: 1937
Description: Dr. Hunter of the Wisconsin Board of Health bathes a baby in a tub of water.
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Treating Workers at McCormick Works Hospital

Date: 11 04 1914
Description: Medical staff attending to male and female factory workers at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting ...
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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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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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Women Medical Students

Date: 04 06 1931
Description: A group of four women medical students wearing laboratory coats at Wisconsin General hospital. Left to right, Mrs. A.F. Kyhos is sitting at a microscope w...
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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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Gathering of Ministerial Families at Parsonage of Jacob Aaall Ottesen

Date: 1874
Description: A gathering of ministerial families at the parsonage of Jacob Aaall Ottesen (1825-1904). Pastor Ottesen, seated on the far left with Mrs. Cathinka Doderlei...
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Group at Picnic Point

Date: 1877
Description: A group, probably at Picnic Point on Lake Mendota in Madison, posed under the trees. Picnic baskets are behind them. Mrs. Bashford is the person in Mrs. ...
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Doctor with Refugee Child in Algeria

Date: 08 1957
Description: A Red Crescent doctor is holding an Algerian refugee child who survived a French air attack that killed eighteen people. Behind them is a shepherd's daught...
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Dr. Anna Howard Shaw

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Description: Dr. Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919) turning the crank of her car. Dr. Shaw was an ordained Methodist minister, physician, temperance lecturer, woman's suffrag...
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Mrs. Lawrence J. McCormick, Christmas Seal Chairman

Date: 11 08 1955
Description: Mrs. Lawrence J. McCormick, former patient at Lake View Sanatorium, looking at her chest x-ray with Dr. John K. Shumate. Mrs. McCormick was chairman of the...
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Officers of Alpha Epsilon Iota

Date: 06 11 1944
Description: Group portrait of six women officers of Alpha Epsilon Iota medical fraternity for women. Seated are: Dr. Helen A. Cary on the left and Dr. Annette Washburn...
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Dr. Sylvia Stuessy

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Description: Portrait of Dr. Sylvia Stuessy.
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Public Health Physicians, Nurse, and Four Children

Date: 1926
Description: Four siblings await their physical examination. Three of the children are triplets. In the background are the public health nurse and examining physician.
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"First Aid Rooms" Factory Safety Poster

Date: 1916
Description: A poster or signboard showing six first aid rooms at six different International Harvester factory and office locations: Champion Works, Akron Works Dispen...
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Doctors at Cancer Meeting

Date: 07 21 1947
Description: A room full of doctors are seated in a classroom at school desks for a "cancer clinic".
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Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene

Date: 08 07 1947
Description: Dr. Ann Laird, resident in pathology at Wisconsin General Hospital, adjusts the technocon which speeds cancer diagnosis, in the laboratory at the Wisconsin...
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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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