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| Date: | 07 22 1949 |
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| Description: | South Side Men's Club X-Ray Drive members urge all south-side residents over 15 years of age to have chest X-rays taken during the club's anti-tuberculosis... |
| Date: | 07 29 1949 |
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| Description: | Governor Rennebohm signing an appropriation bill for $1,000,000 that will fund 94 added positions at the state's mental institutions. Watching him sign are... |
| Date: | 01 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. John J. (Audrey) Walsh and Mrs. Gottfired (Ruth) Mayer attach plastic heart coin containers to posters for the Madison Heart Fund Drive. |
| Date: | 01 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Lindley V. (Virginia) Sprague and Mrs. George (Dorothy) Rentschler with the publicity materials they will use at information desks for the Madison Hea... |
| Date: | 01 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. James B. (Anya) Castle, chair of the women's division of the Madison Heart Fund Drive, displays a fundraising poster. |
| Date: | 02 01 1950 |
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| Description: | Five past-presidents of the Madison Come-Back Club at an annual dinner. Left to right: Myrtle Tiffany, Jay Rose, Lloyd Lock, Frida Kaech and Bjarne Romnes.... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exhibit poster illustrating the proposed benefits of "open air schools . . . where sick children are made well and weak bones catch up with sound minds." I... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exhibit poster arguing that "the medical inspection of school children . . . means a broader understanding of childhood." In many of the photographs a man ... |
| 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: | 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... |
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| Description: | Mothers with babies register at the Health Center. In the background chairs line the walls, and above them are posters on health. |
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| Description: | Mothers sit with their babies in their arms as they wait for nurses to examine the infants. Infant clothing is hanging on a clothesline strung along the ba... |
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| Description: | A nurse is showing expectant mothers an exhibit. including maternity clothes. Posters on health are displayed on the wall behind them. |
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| Description: | Parents watch as their baby is given a physical examination by a woman at the Health Center. |
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| Description: | Women, who are accompanied by their children, register at the Health Center. On the walls are displayed posters on health and food. |
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| Description: | A nurse points to charts while teaching maternal and infant health to a small class of mothers who have children on their laps. |
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| Description: | A nurse or doctor at the Health Center gives a girl a physical examination as the mother, who is holding a baby, looks on. |
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| Description: | A nurse or doctor gives an infant a physical examination at the Health Center as the baby's mother looks on. |
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| Description: | A nurse undresses a baby in preparation for a physical examination as the fashionably-dressed mother looks on. |
| 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. |
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