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Madison Heart Fund Drive

Date: 01 24 1950
Description: Mrs. James B. (Anya) Castle, chair of the women's division of the Madison Heart Fund Drive, displays a fundraising poster.
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Madison Come-Back Club Presidents

Date: 02 01 1950
Description: Five past-presidents of the Madison Come-Back Club at an annual dinner. Left to right: Myrtle Tiffany, Jay Rose, Lloyd Lock, Frida Kaech and Bjarne Romnes....
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"Well Baby" Clinic

Date: 06 01 1950
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...
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Visiting Nurse Service Board of Directors

Date: 11 08 1950
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...
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Boy Scouts and Sea Scouts

Date: 11 09 1950
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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Volunteers at Red Cross Regional Blood Center

Date: 06 14 1951
Description: Volunteer nurses Mrs. J.W. Brown and Mrs. R.H. Olsen work at the year-old Red Cross Regional Blood Center in Madison.
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1951-52 United Givers' Fund Drive

Date: 10 16 1951
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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Tuberculosis Survivor Repairs Typewriters

Date: 11 12 1951
Description: Robert Lawrence works as an apprentice mechanic at Royal Typewriter Company after his recovery from tuberculosis.
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Tuberculosis Patients

Date: 10 12 1951
Description: Isa Shower, a tuberculosis patient at Lake View Sanatorium, reads while lying in bed.
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Tuberculosis Patient

Date: 11 12 1951
Description: Jack Wick listening to a radio at his home after recovering from tuberculosis.
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Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 02 05 1952
Description: Nellie Lee MacBurney, 96 years old, shows a small china house to Betty Maresh, registered nurse, who works for the Visiting Nurse Service.
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William Frost Testimonial Dinner

Date: 02 29 1952
Description: Group portrait of seven people at the head table during a testimonial dinner honoring Dr. William D. Frost, retired president of Morningside Tuberculosis S...
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Medical Auxiliary Aids Nurses' Project

Date: 08 11 1952
Description: "Assisting in the compiling of reference notebooks for prospective nurses are the four wives of doctors pictured above. From left to right, they are Mrs. O...
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Dane County Health Council Association

Date: 09 22 1952
Description: Student Gloria Niebuhr has her eyes tested by Dane County Health Council Association volunteer Mrs. Robert Drunasky. Looking on is student Eugene Bosben.
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Pre-School Physical Exam

Date: 04 13 1953
Description: Cynthia Strassman, who will enter kindergarten next fall, is examined by pediatrician Dr. Richard B. Anderson as part of the Summer Round-Up program. The p...
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Morningside Tuberculosis Sanatorium Classroom

Date: 05 14 1953
Description: Teacher Mrs. Barbara Austin sitting with seven of her students in a classroom at Morningside Sanatorium at 300 Femrite Drive. The young patients averaged a...
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Recruiting Polio Emergency Volunteers

Date: 06 18 1953
Description: Jean Welsch uses the telephone to recruit volunteers for the Polio Emergency Volunteer training course. At her side is her son Bobby, age 3 1/2 years, who ...
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YWCA Planning Committee

Date: 09 09 1953
Description: Doris Maurin, Carol Crume, and Verba Wendt look over papers while planning YWCA health education classes.
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March of Dimes

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Brown and their three children. Russell, right, is still fighting the effects of his paralysis from polio; he pins a Mother...
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March of Dimes

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Portrait of five-year-old Lynn Stenrud with her mother Mrs. Ingvald Stenrud (middle), and Mrs. Robert Huehel (right), all from Deerfield. Lynn is wearing a...

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