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| 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... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 11 12 1951 |
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| Description: | Zellie Jackson of 522 East Wilson Street, a tuberculosis patient at Lake View Sanatorium, listens to a radio while lying in bed. |
| Date: | 11 12 1951 |
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| Description: | Robert Lawrence works as an apprentice mechanic at Royal Typewriter Company after his recovery from tuberculosis. |
| Date: | 10 12 1951 |
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| Description: | Isa Shower, a tuberculosis patient at Lake View Sanatorium, reads while lying in bed. |
| Date: | 11 12 1951 |
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| Description: | Jack Wick listening to a radio at his home after recovering from tuberculosis. |
| Date: | 02 05 1952 |
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| Description: | Nellie Lee MacBurney, 96 years old, shows a small china house to Betty Maresh, registered nurse, who works for the Visiting Nurse Service. |
| Date: | 02 29 1952 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 01 1952 |
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| Description: | Two men watch Governor Walter J. Kohler sign a proclamation in his office, possibly for Heart Week. |
| Date: | 08 11 1952 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 22 1952 |
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| Description: | Student Gloria Niebuhr has her eyes tested by Dane County Health Council Association volunteer Mrs. Robert Drunasky. Looking on is student Eugene Bosben. |
| Date: | 04 13 1953 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 14 1953 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 18 1953 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 09 09 1953 |
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| Description: | Doris Maurin, Carol Crume, and Verba Wendt look over papers while planning YWCA health education classes. |
| Date: | 01 18 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 18 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 18 1954 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Joyce and Norbert Plewke with their daughter, Pamela, who recently recovered from polio. Mrs. Plewke will participate in the upcoming Mot... |
| Date: | 01 18 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Cummings of Waunakee and their five children. The four older children put money in a contribution container for the Mothers' March... |
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