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| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of children walking up a grassy hill together, with text that reads: "The health of the child is the power of the nation," and "Children's Year." C... |
| 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: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Colorized view of a sun parlor at the pavilion for tuberculosis cases at the Milwaukee Hospital for the Insane. |
| 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: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Two children lying sick in bed during the Spanish Flu epidemic. |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exhibit poster illustrating a "daily program for boys & girls," including a "cold bath," "clean hand, face, teeth...," an insistence on "ventilation in sch... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exhibit poster illustrating a "Daily Program for Boys & Girls," including "brush teeth, walk slowly to school," "clean up for supper" and "no late hours." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exhibit poster enumerating "important causes of dullness in children" and exhorting the reader to "find and remove the cause." |
| 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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Exhibit poster with illustration showing a mother holding her baby with the text "breast fed baby has 15 changes to live compared with the bottle fed baby'... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Illustration made for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to demonstrate the danger of pests, including diseases carried by insects... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Copy print of a poster promoting breast feeding for infant health. At the center is an image of a painting depicting a woman nursing a baby by Heckman & Zi... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Poster promoting breast feeding for infant health. The poster shows a bar graph comparing monthly infant deaths for breast fed and bottle fed babies. There... |
| 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: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The actor Paul Kelly (playing Hank Simpson) sits next to director Edward H. Griffith in front of a cameraman and his Debrie motion picture camera in a prod... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Seven women in white uniforms measuring five children, including one infant. Caption reads: "Lincoln School, Madison, Wis. Weighing and Measuring Campaign ... |
| Date: | 08 1918 |
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| Description: | Three women in nurse's uniforms are standing in a tent, where several children and women are seated on chairs. Displays of cribs, cloths (possibly diapers)... |
| Date: | 10 22 1918 |
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| Description: | U.S. soldiers from the 125th Regiment Infantry (composed of detachments from the 31st and 33rd Regiment Infantry, Michigan National Guards) and the 32nd Di... |
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