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| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Colorized view of a sun parlor at the pavilion for tuberculosis cases at the Milwaukee Hospital for the Insane. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Northern Wisconsin Hospital for the Insane. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Northern Wisconsin Hospital for the Insane. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | The entrance of the Northern Wisconsin Hospital for the Insane. Automobiles are parked on the road in front. |
| 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: | 02 07 1947 |
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| Description: | Woman patients at the Mendota State Hospital (Mendota Mental Health Institute) sitting in rocking chairs in the sun room. One of a series of photographs ca... |
| Date: | 02 07 1947 |
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| Description: | View of an open stair well at the Mendota State Hospital (Mendota Mental Health Institute). The fourth floor has been abandoned because of the veritable fi... |
| Date: | 10 10 1947 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Wisconsin Memorial Hospital run by the Veterans Administration on the north shore of Lake Mendota on the grounds of the Mendota State Ho... |
| 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: | 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: | 10 15 1947 |
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| Description: | Woman seated at radio broadcasting console playing music for patients at the Veterans Administration Hospital on the grounds of Mendota State Hospital. |
| Date: | 12 18 1947 |
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| Description: | Dr. August Sauthoff, clinical director and assistant superintendent of Mendota State Hospital, retired January 31, 1948 at the age of 72.(Mendota Mental He... |
| Date: | 01 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Dr. Walter J. Urben, newly appointed superintendent of Mendota State hospital, who started work on Sunday Feb. 1st 1948. He was previously dire... |
| 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: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View across road toward the building which is surrounded by a fence. Caption reads: "The Riverside Sanitarium, Menlo Park, Milwaukee." |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | View across grounds toward the main building in the center with a lawn and paths in front. On the far left is a small attached building with a front porch.... |
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