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| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | View from the path leading to the entrance of the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute). |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute). |
| Date: | 1889 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute) |
| 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.... |
| Date: | 11 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross teaching jewelry-making to a group of patients at the Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Gray Ladies, shown at... |
| Date: | 11 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross serving tea to two unidentified patients at the Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Left to right are: Mrs. H. ... |
| Date: | 11 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross sorting books at the library of Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Left to right: Mrs. Frederick Hillyer, and ... |
| Date: | 11 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Mrs. J.H. Svendsen, a volunteer Gray Lady of the Dane County Red Cross, shown tending patient's plants in the greenhouse at the Mendota hopsital for the me... |
| Date: | 11 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Gray Ladies of the Dane County Red Cross reading outdoors to patients of the Mendota hospital for the mentally ill. Shown standing, at left, is Mrs. Willia... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Mendota State Hospital office. Charles Carter, steward, seated at his desk. Across from him is George B. Merrick, Asst. Steward. Below the desk is a dog,... |
| Date: | 06 27 1949 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 28 1962 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a historically-restored hallway in the Mendota Mental Health Institute (Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane). |
| Date: | 09 27 1950 |
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| Description: | Officers of the Madison unit of the Wisconsin Council for Mentally Retarded Children, seated around a table. Left to right: Mrs. E.K. (Flora) Steul, public... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from driveway of exterior of the Winnebago County Asylum. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Poor Farm on the grounds of the Winnebago County Asylum. There is a large barn, silo, windmill, and the roof of a large building in the ba... |
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