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| Date: | 11 18 1947 |
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| Description: | Mrs. James (Jane) Wilkie with her children, Sara, James, and William, shown wrapping presents using tuberculosis seals. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Sign warning International Harvester factory workers against various types of skin diseases. The sign reads: "Skin Diseases; There are many different kinds... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Sign warning International Harvester factory workers about about typhoid fever. The sign reads: "Typhoid Fever is Here; Here are a few facts about it: 1. T... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Sign warning International Harvester factory workers about tuberculosis. The sign reads: "Tuberculosis; There are hundreds of cases of tuberculosis in Chic... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Sign or poster warning International Harvester factory employees about the signs, causes, and prevention of blood poison. The sign reads: "Blood Poison; Si... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Industrial health and safety sign or poster telling factory workers how to spot and prevent pneumonia. The sign reads: "Look Out For Pneumonia; This is the... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Industrial Health and Safety sign or poster informing factory workers of the symptoms and prevention of "flu," or influenza. The sign reads: "The 'Flu' Is ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Industrial health and safety sign or poster warning against the dangers of drinking mixtures with alcohol. The sign reads: "Warning; Do not drink any mixtu... |
| 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: | 01 31 1948 |
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| Description: | Shown at the Dr. Cornelius A. Harper recognition event, left to right, Dr. Carl N. Neupert, state health officer, and Mrs. Melba Neupert; and Dr. and Mrs. ... |
| Date: | 02 09 1948 |
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| Description: | PTA health chairwomen hearing about plans for the mobile X-ray program from Beulah Dreyfus, a tuberculosis (TB) nurse with the City of Madison Health Depar... |
| Date: | 02 19 1948 |
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| Description: | Dr. Clair Turner, Assistant to the president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, is shown at the left as he conferred in Madison with a gro... |
| Date: | 04 19 1948 |
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| Description: | Visiting nurse Maude Rydberg of the Madison Visiting Nurse Service, shows Mrs. William E. Johnson, the former Jane Weston, the proper way to use the cotton... |
| Date: | 04 21 1948 |
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| Description: | Louis F. Warrick, State Board of Health, at his desk. |
| 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: | 06 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin physicians seated in a classroom while attending the second annual polio short course. The course is co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Medical School... |
| Date: | 07 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Participants in a large-scale hearing clinic held at Washington School in Madison and sponsored by the University of Wisconsin departments of speech and ed... |
| Date: | 07 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Participants in a large-scale hearing clinic held at Washington School in Madison and sponsored by the University of Wisconsin departments of speech and ed... |
| Date: | 03 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster announcing a blood drive at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, sponsored by the Red Cross. Features a "bloodmobile" as an attraction. |
| Date: | 10 19 1948 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Jeannette Simmons, new health educator for the Madison health department. Ms. Simmons joins the staff under a 3-year grant experimental program... |
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