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| Date: | 02 06 1947 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 15 1947 |
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| Description: | Workers and patients at tables in the canteen in a Quonset hut at the Veterans Administration Hospital on the grounds of the Mendota State Hospital. |
| Date: | 02 11 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 11 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Mendota State Hospital student volunteers shown assisting Dr. Adolf Soucek give a patient electric shock treatment. The University of Wisconsin students ar... |
| Date: | 08 11 1948 |
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| 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. ... |
| Date: | 08 11 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 11 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross teaching jewelry-making to a group of patients at the Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Gray Ladies, shown at... |
| Date: | 11 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross serving tea to two unidentified patients at the Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Left to right are: Mrs. H. ... |
| Date: | 11 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross sorting books at the library of Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Left to right: Mrs. Frederick Hillyer, and ... |
| Date: | 11 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Mrs. J.H. Svendsen, a volunteer Gray Lady of the Dane County Red Cross, shown tending patient's plants in the greenhouse at the Mendota hopsital for the me... |
| Date: | 11 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross reading outdoors to patients of the Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Shown standing, at left, is Mrs. Willia... |
| Date: | 06 27 1949 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 27 1950 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 23 1952 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 14 1952 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 23 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 03 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 11 1957 |
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| Description: | West Side Garden Club member and Red Cross Gray lady therapist Christina Dana is shown with a floral arrangement used in helping Mendota State Hospital pat... |
| Date: | 03 21 1957 |
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| Description: | The original caption states: "here, trying out the comfortable setting of the patients' living room are Irene Gruendler, Sister Mary of the Angels, Mary El... |
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