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| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Portrait of E.E. Manuel, Superintendent of the Winnebago County Asylum sitting at his desk with a ledger in front of him. In the background is a typewriter... |
| 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: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Movie still from the Twentieth Century-Fox film "Shock Treatment," featuring Stuart Whitman (playing Dale Nelson) who is shown undergoing electroshock trea... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Movie still from the Allied Artists film "Shock Corridor," featuring James Best (playing Stuart), Peter Breck (playing Johnny Barrett), and Hari Rhodes (pl... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 03 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Dr. Edward Bruckner, pathologist, Sister Mary Seraphia, S.S.M., administrator of the hospital, and Eleanor DeMeuse, supervisor nurse, conferring in the gla... |
| Date: | 12 13 1957 |
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| Description: | Three men examine an electric organ placed upon a wheeled platform. The caption states, a new portable chord organ for patients at Mendota State Hospital a... |
| Date: | 12 11 1958 |
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| Description: | Three women pack Christmas gifts as part of a project in which members of 30 Dane County organizations "adopt" a patient at Mendota State Hospital. Partici... |
| Date: | 12 11 1958 |
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| Description: | Elizabeth Kurtenacker, left, and Red Cross Gray Lady Ruth Hicks are next to a table with a pile of wrapped gifts. The women were taking part in a project i... |
| Date: | 05 05 1961 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 05 05 1961 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Dr. Richard Thurrell, a psychiatrist at Mendota State Hospital. |
| Date: | 07 16 1960 |
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| Description: | Several participants tell the early history of Mendota State Hospital at the centennial pageant. They are, left to right: Cecilia Shedleski, a nurse at the... |
| Date: | 07 22 1960 |
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| Description: | Employees of Mendota State Hospital act out the history of the hospital in a centennial pageant. In this scene, the hospital board visits the newly-built h... |
| Date: | 07 16 1960 |
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| Description: | Employees dress in turn-of-the-century dresses for a scene in a centennial pageant depicting nursing at Mendota State Hospital. The costumes were from the ... |
| Date: | 07 16 1960 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 16 1955 |
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| Description: | The men who planned the three-meeting seminar on ministry and mental health gather at the University YMCA in Madison. At left is Walter W. Argow, Madison, ... |
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