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| 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: | 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... |
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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. |
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