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| Date: | 03 04 1932 |
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| Description: | Military veterans receive therapy in hot water tubs, with George Gardner, director of the hydro-therapy department, Wisconsin Memorial Hospital on Farwell ... |
| Date: | 11 06 1947 |
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| Description: | Male patient working at a table weaving/braiding as part of his occupational therapy at the Veterans Administration Hospital on the grounds of Mendota Stat... |
| 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: | 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 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 1964 |
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| Description: | In the foreground, a woman's arms, with a bracelet and wristwatch. In one hand she is holding a large bottle of pills, and is pouring the pills into the ot... |
| Date: | 04 26 1959 |
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| Description: | Mrs. A. Newel Whitney, an occupational therapist at Mendota State Hospital, is shown helping a patient lace together sections of a leather purse as part of... |
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