Date: | 07 04 1917 |
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Description: | Panoramic view of the staff and residents of the Dane County Asylum at the second annual picnic for the institution. |
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: | 1902 |
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Description: | View across lawn the Waupaca County Asylum facade. The structure consists of three buildings connected by windowed passageways. The building is symmetrical... |
Date: | 02 23 1954 |
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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... |
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: | 09 01 1954 |
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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... |
Date: | 09 01 1954 |
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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... |
Date: | 09 01 1954 |
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Description: | Two young girls finger paint in the occupational therapy room at the Wisconsin Diagnostic Center, 1552 University Avenue, for the intensive study of mental... |
Date: | 09 10 1954 |
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Description: | Dedication of the Wisconsin Diagnostic Center for the intensive study of mentally and emotionally disturbed young people, referred to it by the state Dept.... |
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: | 1911 |
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Description: | View across dirt road of the asylum and grounds. A large three-story building is spread out over several acres. Stairs are leading up to entrances on the s... |
Date: | 1899 |
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Description: | A plat map of the township of Westport. |
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