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| Date: | 11 25 1933 |
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| Description: | A group portrait of Boy Scouts and adult leaders armed with tacks, hammers and posters to promote the sale of Christmas Seals. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Illustration of a chart listing "important causes of death in Wisconsin". Extra text reads "You Make Life What It Is!" and "What will the Future bring You ... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | State Board of Health mobile tuberculosis x-ray unit. The ability to bring tuberculosis diagnostic technology to all parts of the state greatly aided the v... |
| Date: | 09 30 1947 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 30 1947 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 12 29 1947 |
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| Description: | Mrs. John (Violet) Feeney demonstrating that she can not cram any more garbage into her garbage can because the city has not collected her garbage for nine... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | View from the parking lot of the American National Red Cross building, Dane County Chapter Headquarters, located at 302 East Washington Avenue. Awnings cov... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exhibit poster with an illustration of a naked man pushing against masses shaped liked clouds which are labeled "Ignorance" and "Apathy." At the center ove... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Worker spraying Elm trees with DDT pumped from a tank hitched to the back of a vehicle equipped with a snow plow. |
| Date: | 02 23 1954 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the new Wisconsin Diagnostic Center for the intensive study of mentally and emotionally disturbed young people, referred to it by the stat... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Medical examination of a boy in a refugee camp in the mountain region of Vietnam on the border of Laos. Treatment provided by a joint MEDICO/U.S. Army huma... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A barbed wire fence in the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw constructed to quarantine people infected with lice. At this point the wall around the entire ghetto had... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | This map shows asylums, cemeteries, hospitals, parks, streets, and wards. Relief is shown by contours. Also included are manuscript annotations in pencil. ... |
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| Description: | View from front of a man on a motorcycle squirting fuel oil into a sewer opening at a curb to control mosquitoes. The motorcycle has an oil tank attached l... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two men and a group of children in a courtyard. One of the men is driving a Malaria Control truck, and the other man is standing by the pa... |
| Date: | 07 06 1981 |
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| Description: | Men and women picketing outside a hospital, likely UW Hospital. Some of signs they are carrying read: "Poor Staffing is Dangerous to Your Health", "Citizen... |
| Date: | 07 06 1981 |
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| Description: | Men and women picketing outside a hospital. Some of signs they are carrying read: "Tired Nurses Are Unsafe", "Stop the Exodus from UWH Before it's too late... |
| Date: | 07 06 1981 |
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| Description: | Men and women picketing outside a hospital. Some of signs they are carrying read: "Hospital Workers Together!", "Nurses An Endangered Species UP" and "Wisc... |
| Date: | 07 06 1981 |
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| Description: | Men and women picketing outside a hospital. Some of signs they are carrying read: "Poor Staffing is Dangerous to Your Health", "Wanted!! Cheap labor Apply ... |
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