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| Date: | 01 18 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Cummings of Waunakee and their five children. The four older children put money in a contribution container for the Mothers' March... |
| 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: | 02 23 1954 |
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| Description: | An interior view of the new Wisconsin Diagnostic Center for the intensive study of mentally and emotionally disturbed young people, referred to it by the s... |
| 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: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Small schoolhouse with a bell tower on the roof over the entrance to the building. The schoolhouse is surrounded by trees. A class of students is pictured ... |
| Date: | 09 28 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Dr. Vernam Terrell Davis, assistant director of the division of mental hygiene at the Diognostic Center and associate professor of clinical psy... |
| Date: | 10 10 1954 |
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| Description: | Among those attending the Madison Visiting Nurse Service fall luncheon at the Blackhawk Country Club are, from left to right: Clara B. Rue, Milwaukee, lunc... |
| Date: | 10 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Among those attending the Madison Visiting Nurse Service fall luncheon at the Blackhawk Country Club are Agnes Griffith and Beulah Aubey, two registered nu... |
| Date: | 10 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Among those attending the Madison Visiting Nurse Service fall luncheon at the Blackhawk Country Club are, from left to right: Mrs. John Lobb, newly elected... |
| Date: | 12 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Nancy McVee, recently recovered from tuberculosis after being treated in a sanatorium for five years. During that time, she took correspondence... |
| 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: | Polio vaccine being unloaded (?) from a Northwest airplane. |
| 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: | 03 12 1956 |
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| Description: | Members of the University of Wisconsin Hoofers' Ski Club demonstrate the importance of correct immobilization of fractures and proper transportation. They ... |
| Date: | 09 22 1952 |
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| Description: | First grade student Frank Eschler has his hearing tested by Sun Prairie Health Council chairman Mrs. Marshall Thorpe. Looking on is student Kathleen Wacket... |
| 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. |
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