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Bathing Baby in Tub

Date: 1937
Description: Dr. Hunter of the Wisconsin Board of Health bathes a baby in a tub of water.
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Meeting "Happy Tooth"

Date: 04 24 1989
Description: Children meet "Happy Tooth", a robot sponsored by Colgate toothpaste on a 30-state tour to promote dental hygiene to young school children.
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Polio Shot Time

Date: 11 15 1955
Description: All seven siblings in the Marnell family lining up for their polio inoculations.
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Community Polio Vaccine

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Description: Tables are set up at a City Hall basement lobby as a venue for public access to the polio vaccine.
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Beating the Bug

Date: 12 13 1968
Description: A firefighter gets a flu shot made available to city workers in the lobby of the municipal building to avoid contracting the Hong Kong flu.
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Preacher Delivers Sermon on Tuberculosis

Date: 04 1924
Description: Preacher Chas V. Reed delivering a sermon on tuberculosis in conjunction with an International Harvester Agricultural Extension Department lecture. Mr. Ree...
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Health for Victory Stage Set

Date: 09 17 1942
Description: Health for Victory stage, set up with posters, stove and refrigerator for Oscar Mayer at the Eastwood Theater. On the stage is a woman pointing to a poster...
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Children at Morningside Sanitorium

Date: 06 01 1935
Description: Group portrait of children with tuberculosis and their attendants, and with a man and woman in Salvation Army uniforms, sitting in a classroom at the Morni...
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Kiddie Camp Display Window

Date: 04 27 1934
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...
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Kiddie Camp Children

Date: 04 27 1934
Description: Three members of the Emerson Fresh Air school and the Longfellow Nutrition room eating at a table to demonstrate that the Kiddie Camp's provision of good n...
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Vocational Students Mail Christmas Seals

Date: 11 29 1933
Description: A group of Madison vocational school students preparing Christmas Seals for distribution by the Madison Anti-Tuberculosis Association.
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Tuberculosis Patient

Date: 11 15 1949
Description: Doris (Mrs. Edward) Trameri being x-rayed by Dr. James M. Wilkie for tuberculosis at the free chest clinic operated by the Madison Department of Public Hea...
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Visiting Nurse Service Staff Nurses

Date: 04 11 1944
Description: L. Lee, 1822 Helena Street, Norma Epermann, 217 North Orchard Street, and Mary Sherburne, 222 South Carroll Street, preparing supplies. Public health visit...
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Visiting Nurse Service Staff Nurses

Date: 04 11 1944
Description: Rosemary Kreilkamp, 222 South Carroll Street, Alice Sanborn, 3005 Harvard Drive, and Ann L. Schmich, director of the Visiting Nurse Service in Madison, exa...
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Patients at Wisconsin State Tuberculosis Sanitorium

Date: 1908
Description: View of a group of men dressed in winter clothes, under blankets, sitting in an outdoor porch at the Wisconsin State Tuberculosis Sanitorium in Wales. Capt...
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Sun Parlor for Tuberculosis Patients

Date: 1912
Description: Colorized view of a sun parlor at the pavilion for tuberculosis cases at the Milwaukee Hospital for the Insane.
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Tuberculosis Ward at River Pines Sanatorium

Date: 1908
Description: Snow-filled porch at the River Pines Tuberculosis Sanitorium.
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Anti-Tuberculosis Railway Exhibit

Date: 1906
Description: 1904 Exhibit of the Maryland Association for the Prevention and Relief of Tuberculosis, in a railway coach. Photograph taken in Milwaukee.
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Wisconsin Lung Association Display

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Description: Wisconsin Lung Association informational display. Features model of and information on Sunnyview Sanatorium. The Wisconsin Lung Association was previously ...
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Wisconsin Lung Association Display

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Description: Wisconsin Lung Association informational display on tuberculosis. Featuring a model of and information on Sunnyview Sanatorium. The Wisconsin Lung Associat...

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