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| Description: | A Ho-Chunk girl is wrapped in a shawl and sitting outdoors on the left, and a Ho-Chunk boy posing only in a shirt is standing on the right. Both children ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exhibit poster with an illustration of a naked man pushing against masses shaped liked clouds which are labeled "Ignorance" and "Apathy." At the center ove... |
| Date: | 06 01 1950 |
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| Description: | Dr. Ruth Foster, left, is shown examaning baby Janet Lee Sommerville while assisted by Nurse H. Anita Anderson as the mother, Mrs. Robert Somerville, is lo... |
| Date: | 08 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Lieutenant Adrian Davis (left) of Tilton Terrace, a medical officer of the Madison Marine Corps Reserve, is shown giving an injection to new recruit, Pfc. ... |
| Date: | 11 08 1950 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Visiting Nurse Service Board of Directors. The function of the visiting nurses is to provide bedside care when needed in Madison. Sta... |
| Date: | 11 09 1950 |
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| Description: | As part of Madison's civil defense plans, Boy Scout troops are being mobilized to distribute diabetic kits. Members of Scout Troop Number 2 are shown recei... |
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| Description: | Mothers with babies register at the Health Center. In the background chairs line the walls, and above them are posters on health. |
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| Description: | Mothers sit with their babies in their arms as they wait for nurses to examine the infants. Infant clothing is hanging on a clothesline strung along the ba... |
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| Description: | A nurse is showing expectant mothers an exhibit. including maternity clothes. Posters on health are displayed on the wall behind them. |
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| Description: | Parents watch as their baby is given a physical examination by a woman at the Health Center. |
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| Description: | Women, who are accompanied by their children, register at the Health Center. On the walls are displayed posters on health and food. |
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| Description: | A nurse points to charts while teaching maternal and infant health to a small class of mothers who have children on their laps. |
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| Description: | A nurse or doctor at the Health Center gives a girl a physical examination as the mother, who is holding a baby, looks on. |
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| Description: | A nurse or doctor gives an infant a physical examination at the Health Center as the baby's mother looks on. |
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| Description: | A nurse undresses a baby in preparation for a physical examination as the fashionably-dressed mother looks on. |
| Date: | 10 1936 |
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| Description: | A nurse poses outdoors holding a Native American girl at the Lac du Flambeau Indian reservation. |
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| Description: | Two women and an infant represent three generations of an Indian family. They are posing at the steps of the Health Center, where they are to attend Mother... |
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| Description: | A health care worker is instructing two mothers how to select shoes and stockings for their children. On the wall is a poster on clothing and shoes. |
| Date: | 06 14 1951 |
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| Description: | Volunteer nurses Mrs. J.W. Brown and Mrs. R.H. Olsen work at the year-old Red Cross Regional Blood Center in Madison. |
| Date: | 10 16 1951 |
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| Description: | Representing the Visiting Nurses Service is Mrs. Anna Forbis, 6112 Wingra Street. More than nine hundred volunteer workers are involved in a house-to-house... |
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