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Furnaces in Boiler Room at Dane County Asylum

Date: 05 09 1933
Description: Elevated view of the furnaces in the boiler room at the Dane County Asylum. Two men are standing in the middle of the room.
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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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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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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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Organ for Mendota Hospital

Date: 12 13 1957
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...
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Alcoholism Program at Mendota

Date: 05 05 1961
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.
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Dr. Richard Thurrell

Date: 05 05 1961
Description: Portrait of Dr. Richard Thurrell, a psychiatrist at Mendota State Hospital.
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Mendota Hospital Centennial Event

Date: 07 16 1960
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...
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Seminar on Ministry and Mental Health

Date: 05 16 1955
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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Seminar on Ministry and Mental Health

Date: 05 16 1955
Description: Two Lutheran pastors chat during the seminar on ministry and mental health at the University YMCA in Madison. The Madison pastors are Rev. William J. Rohlw...
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First Friends Program for Former Mental Patients

Date: 04 25 1961
Description: The First Friends volunteer chairman is Rev. Richard Larson, associate pastor at Bethel Lutheran Church. Helping the group get ready are Bill Sather, execu...
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Man Feeding Doves

Date: 1890
Description: Man feeding fantail doves on a lawn at Oakwood Sanitarium. The sanitarium is in the background behind trees.
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Group at Oakwood Sanitarium

Date: 1890
Description: Informal group portrait of fifteen people, men women and children, posed on stone steps at Oakwood Sanitarium. Some of the people are holding bouquets.

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