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| Date: | 04 27 1934 |
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| Description: | Three little girls, members of the Emerson Fresh Air school and the Longfellow Nutrition room, playing with puppies in the Capital Times Kiddie Camp... |
| Date: | 10 27 1973 |
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| Description: | Candid portrait of three Wisconsin legislators sharing a light moment. Left to right, they are: Melvin Laird, who resigned from his congressional seat in J... |
| Date: | 04 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen standing at her car ready to start her daily activities. |
| Date: | 03 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen caring for elderly resident Clotilda Contell, who she visits regularly. |
| Date: | 04 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen demonstrates to Amy C. Shumway the correct way to bathe her daughter, Carol Louise. |
| Date: | 04 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen checking on bedridden Richard Pedracine. |
| 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: | 10 12 1951 |
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| Description: | Isa Shower, a tuberculosis patient at Lake View Sanatorium, reads while lying in bed. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Child receiving a shot, most likely the polio vaccine. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Children in line for vaccine shot. The child in the foreground is being prepared for the injection, most likely the polio vaccine. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A doctor unloading a box filled with a supply of the polio vaccine. The box in the foreground is labeled: "Polio Vaccine Rush" and the doctor is kneeling n... |
| 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: | 04 26 1957 |
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| Description: | Members of the Zonta Club sponsored a community-wide dinner and educational program for Hear, Inc. at the Park Hotel. Left to Right: Ruth Dickie, retiring ... |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | A woman is sitting at a table filling out a ledger. She is wearing red clothing with white piping, and is wearing eyeglasses. She is probably a nurse or nu... |
| Date: | 04 29 1958 |
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| Description: | The Dane County Chapter of the Association for Mental Health conducts a survey of Madison area employers to aid them and their employees with mental health... |
| Date: | 12 15 1958 |
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| Description: | Esther Haack (seated left) sells a page of Christmas seals to Leone Wagner at the post office. The Madison Tuberculosis Association sells about $150 worth ... |
| Date: | 1991 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin (seated, second from the right) listens while Virginia McGinley testifies at a public forum on health care. This was... |
| Date: | 10 01 1959 |
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| Description: | The Madison Sertoma Club presented a check for $100 to the National Foundation to aid polio patients. Dr. Robert Harmon, right, Dane County chapter emergen... |
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