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Mendota State Hospital Ward

Date: 02 06 1947
Description: View of nine empty beds in a Mendota State Hospital ward (Mendota Mental Health Institute) at 301 Troy Drive.
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Conditions at Mendota State Hospital

Date: 02 06 1947
Description: A woman patient at the Mendota State Hospital (Mendota Mental Health Institute) who is restrained in her bed by a camisole, which prevents the use of her a...
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Conditions at Mendota State Hospital

Date: 02 07 1947
Description: Woman patients at the Mendota State Hospital (Mendota Mental Health Institute) sitting in rocking chairs in the sun room. One of a series of photographs ca...
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Conditions at Mendota State Hospital

Date: 02 07 1947
Description: View of an open stair well at the Mendota State Hospital (Mendota Mental Health Institute). The fourth floor has been abandoned because of the veritable fi...
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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: Two university students helping serve dinner to patients at Mendota State Hospital. They are John LeSeur from Cornell University on the left, and Roy Klett...
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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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Mendota State Hospital

Date: 08 11 1948
Description: Two students making a bed at the Mendota State Hospital during their University of Wisconsin program to learn the inside workings of a mental institution. ...
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Mendota State Hospital

Date: 08 11 1948
Description: A Mendota State Hospital patient shown having her hair arranged and nails manicured by Lucille Schultz (left) from Manitowoc, a University of Wisconsin stu...
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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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Council for Mentally Retarded Children

Date: 09 27 1950
Description: Officers of the Madison unit of the Wisconsin Council for Mentally Retarded Children, seated around a table. Left to right: Mrs. E.K. (Flora) Steul, public...
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Lions Club Collecting Musical Instruments

Date: 04 23 1952
Description: G.I. Wallace and Clarence Graham looking over some of the discarded musical instruments donated to the state-wide project collecting musical instruments fo...
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Mendota State Hospital Dance

Date: 12 14 1952
Description: A circle of female patients and a nurse hold hands during a dance at Mendota State Hospital. John Birchall, a hospital recreation staff person, plays a dou...
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Wisconsin Diagnostic Center

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: Exterior view of the new Wisconsin Diagnostic Center for the intensive study of mentally and emotionally disturbed young people, referred to it by the stat...
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Wisconsin Diagnostic Center

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: An interior view of the new Wisconsin Diagnostic Center for the intensive study of mentally and emotionally disturbed young people, referred to it by the s...
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Theology Students Get Clinical Training

Date: 03 03 1954
Description: An unnamed Mendota patient (left) and Kenneth Smith (right), a theology student receiving 12 weeks of training at Mendota State Hospital for the Mentally I...
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Wisconsin Diagnostic Center

Date: 09 01 1954
Description: A young boy plays with building blocks at the Wisconsin Diagnostic Center for the intensive study of mentally and emotionally disturbed young people. The b...
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Wisconsin Diagnostic Center

Date: 09 01 1954
Description: A patient plays cards with Eugenia Hoover, a psychiatric aide, at the Wisconsin Diagnostic Center at 1552 University Avenue. The Center is for the intensiv...

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