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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Staff members of the Wisconsin Hospital for the Insane pose at the hospital doors. Mendota Mental Health Institute |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | View of Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute). |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Supply room of the Northern Hospital for the Insane. Canned and bottled goods, kitchenware, clothing, and blankets are on the shelves. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Northern Hospital for the Insane. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Institutional fire fighting department at the Northern Hospital for the Insane, executing drills on the exterior of the building. Fire fighting equipment i... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Northern Hospital for the Insane. A horse-drawn carriage is outside the entrance. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Northern Hospital for the Insane and its front grounds. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Six beds in the sleeping quarters of the Northern Hospital for the Insane. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | The kitchen in the Northern Hospital for the Insane. Institutional cooking equipment and various supplies are visible. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Northern Hospital for the Insane's institutional fire fighting department posed outside the building. Horse-drawn transport cart and ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Pharmacy supplies are displayed in shelves in an office at the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane, lit by gas lamps hanging above the desk. (Mendota M... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A game room with chairs, a pool table, a rack for cue sticks, and a table with checker board and deck of cards is available for patients' recreation at the... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Freshly-baked loaves of bread are stacked on tables with bowls and trays of other food items in the large kitchen at the Wisconsin State Hospital for the I... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Crocks and bottles of various sizes line shelves, while beakers and mortars and pestles rest on counter tops in the brick-floored pharmaceutical lab at the... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Sinks, tubs, and cylindrical washing machines on pulleys make up the laundry facilities at the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Heal... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Winter view of the Wisconsin State Hospital For The Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute). |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane designed by Stephen V. Shipman (Mendota Mental Health Institute). |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute), a large stone building five stories high with a porthole windo... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental health Institute) is seen in the distance in this long view from across cornfields. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Dane County Asylum for the Criminally Insane. In 1880 it became a part of the county hospital system, which was set up to provide longer term care to peopl... |
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