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American Cancer Society Meeting

Date: 02 19 1947
Description: Men and women working for control of cancer attend a meeting of the American Cancer Society.
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Nurse Lucille Graves

Date: 04 16 1947
Description: Lucille Graves, Dane County's supervisor of public health nursing.
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Public Health Nursing Week

Date: 04 16 1947
Description: Public Health Nursing Week. Helen Guelzow of the Visiting Nurse Service making her daily physical check-up of two University of Wisconsin nursery school ch...
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Public Health Nursing Week

Date: 04 16 1947
Description: Public Health Nursing Week. School nurse, Dorothy Dorman, inspecting the throats of four pupils at Sherman School. From left are: Larry Call, Norbert Eugen...
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Public Health Nursing Week

Date: 04 16 1947
Description: Public Health Nursing Week. Miss Agnes Moroney of the third district unit of Wisconsin State Organization of Public Health Nursing and supervising nurse at...
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Public Health Nursing Week

Date: 03 16 1947
Description: Public Health Nursing Week. Wisconsin "First Lady," Mrs. Oscar Rennebohm, right, discussing national Public Health Nursing Week with Mrs. Vern S. (Elizabet...
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Leaders of Dane County Cancer Fund Drive

Date: 04 23 1947
Description: Group portrait of leaders of the Dane County Cancer Fund Drive as they prepare to broadcast a radio appeal for support. Pictured left to right; Mrs. Jesse ...
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Doctors Examining Patient

Date: 05 19 1947
Description: Three doctors examining a patient for the Cancer Society.
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James L. Clark, City Health Inspector

Date: 09 20 1947
Description: James L. Clark, Madison city health inspector, shown pointing to a map of Madison marked with X's signifying places with rat infestation.
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Rat Extermination

Date: 09 30 1947
Description: James Capacio and John H. Endres, assistant to L.B. Kelly of the Solvit Chemical Company, distributing poison bread at the Shorewood dump in a rat extermin...
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Rat Extermination

Date: 09 30 1947
Description: James L. Clarke, city health inspector, placing a warning sign on a fence at the Shorewood dump after workers distributed poison bread bait in the dump.
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Dr. Marshall W. Meyer

Date: 11 05 1947
Description: Madison City Health Officer, Dr. Marshall W. Meyer, seated at a desk.
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Christmas Seal Campaign

Date: 11 18 1947
Description: Mrs. Bernard (Edna) Heilprin and Mrs. William L.(Margaret) Dowling shown installing a Christmas Seal poster. They are members of the Madison Tuberculosis A...
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Christmas Seal Campaign

Date: 10 18 1947
Description: Miss Catherine Ahern, a member of the board of directors of the Madison Tuberculosis Association, holding a double-bar cross, the symbol of the association...
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Christmas Seal Campaign

Date: 11 18 1947
Description: Mrs. James (Jane) Wilkie with her children, Sara, James, and William, shown wrapping presents using tuberculosis seals.
Poster

Industrial Health Poster: Skin Diseases

Date: 1921
Description: Sign warning International Harvester factory workers against various types of skin diseases. The sign reads: "Skin Diseases; There are many different kinds...
Poster

Industrial Health Poster: Typhoid Fever

Date: 1921
Description: Sign warning International Harvester factory workers about about typhoid fever. The sign reads: "Typhoid Fever is Here; Here are a few facts about it: 1. T...
Poster

Industrial Health Poster: Tuberculosis

Date: 1921
Description: Sign warning International Harvester factory workers about tuberculosis. The sign reads: "Tuberculosis; There are hundreds of cases of tuberculosis in Chic...
Poster

Industrial Health and Safety Blood Poison Poster

Date: 1921
Description: Sign or poster warning International Harvester factory employees about the signs, causes, and prevention of blood poison. The sign reads: "Blood Poison; Si...
Poster

Industrial Health Pneumonia Sign

Date: 1921
Description: Industrial health and safety sign or poster telling factory workers how to spot and prevent pneumonia. The sign reads: "Look Out For Pneumonia; This is the...

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