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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: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Snow-filled porch at the River Pines Tuberculosis Sanitorium. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | 1904 Exhibit of the Maryland Association for the Prevention and Relief of Tuberculosis, in a railway coach. Photograph taken in Milwaukee. |
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| Description: | A nurse is talking to two pregnant mothers. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Two children lying sick in bed during the Spanish Flu epidemic. |
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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: | 09 01 1940 |
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| Description: | An exhibit at the Barron County Fair about the care of premature infants. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | A nurse holding a mirror so that the photographer can see the face of a girl in an iron lung. Hanging from the machine are a number of greeting cards. The ... |
| Date: | 07 29 1995 |
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| Description: | At a celebration for the 30th anniversary of Medicare, Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey and guests blow out the candles on a cake. |
| Date: | 1995 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin congressmen (left to right) Gerald Kleczka, David R. Obey, and Thomas Barrett listening to citizen opinions on Medicare reform at a forum. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Seven women in white uniforms measuring five children, including one infant. Caption reads: "Lincoln School, Madison, Wis. Weighing and Measuring Campaign ... |
| Date: | 08 1918 |
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| Description: | Three women in nurse's uniforms are standing in a tent, where several children and women are seated on chairs. Displays of cribs, cloths (possibly diapers)... |
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