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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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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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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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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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"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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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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James Parkin

Date: 1945
Description: James Parkin, and a woman in eyeglasses, speak with another woman in a paper gown, apparently a patient.
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Dr. Harper Tribute

Date: 01 31 1948
Description: Shown at the Dr. Cornelius A. Harper recognition event, left to right, Dr. Carl N. Neupert, state health officer, and Mrs. Melba Neupert; and Dr. and Mrs. ...
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National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis

Date: 02 19 1948
Description: Dr. Clair Turner, Assistant to the president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, is shown at the left as he conferred in Madison with a gro...
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Edgewater Hotel Opening

Date: 04 26 1948
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm hanging a dedication plaque on the wall of the Governor's suite in the new Edgewater Hotel, 666 Wisconsin Avenue. Shown looking on...
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Polio Short Course

Date: 06 29 1948
Description: Wisconsin physicians seated in a classroom while attending the second annual polio short course. The course is co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Medical School...
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Hospital Room

Date: 1930
Description: Posed view of a patient room in the recently constructed Methodist Hospital, showing a nurse on the telephone near a bed, and a doctor and elderly patient ...
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Doctor and Woman in Tent

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Description: A woman sits and a man stands at the opening of a tent, probably Dr. Matthews of a traveling medicine show. Inside the open tent there is a table with a di...
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Kenneth R. and Virginia Lee Blies Humke

Date: 07 06 1949
Description: Dr. Kenneth R. Humke with his wife, Virginia Lee Blied, and son, David, visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Leo Blied. The Humkes were on their way from Gua...
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Studio Portrait Ho-Chunk Family

Date: 1918
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk family. Sitting (l to r) Will Thunder (NaKikSayWaHeKah) (son of [WaConChaKah] John Thunder aka Dr. Thunder and [W...

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