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| Date: | 11 15 1955 |
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| Description: | All seven siblings in the Marnell family lining up for their polio inoculations. |
| Date: | 11 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Lawrence J. McCormick, former patient at Lake View Sanatorium, looking at her chest x-ray with Dr. John K. Shumate. Mrs. McCormick was chairman of the... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Poster produced by the Wisconsin Lung Association showing a young girl in pajamas kneeling to pray at her bedside. Includes the text "help keep everyone sa... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 08 10 1950 |
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| Description: | Lieutenant Adrian Davis (left) of Tilton Terrace, a medical officer of the Madison Marine Corps Reserve, is shown giving an injection to new recruit, Pfc. ... |
| Date: | 11 08 1950 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the Visiting Nurse Service Board of Directors. The function of the visiting nurses is to provide bedside care when needed in Madison. Sta... |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 10 16 1951 |
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| Description: | Representing the Visiting Nurses Service is Mrs. Anna Forbis, 6112 Wingra Street. More than nine hundred volunteer workers are involved in a house-to-house... |
| Date: | 11 12 1951 |
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| Description: | Zellie Jackson of 522 East Wilson Street, a tuberculosis patient at Lake View Sanatorium, listens to a radio while lying in bed. |
| Date: | 11 12 1951 |
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| Description: | Robert Lawrence works as an apprentice mechanic at Royal Typewriter Company after his recovery from tuberculosis. |
| Date: | 10 12 1951 |
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| Description: | Isa Shower, a tuberculosis patient at Lake View Sanatorium, reads while lying in bed. |
| Date: | 11 12 1951 |
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| Description: | Jack Wick listening to a radio at his home after recovering from tuberculosis. |
| Date: | 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Letter from Mrs. F.L. "Dixie" Larkin of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to The Wisconsin Conservation Department regarding the use of DDT to control Dutch Elm Diseas... |
| Date: | 06 30 1957 |
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| Description: | Letter from Marie Thompson of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, President of the Animal Protective League to John Beale, Chief Forester at the Wisconsin Conservation D... |
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