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| Date: | 03 17 1949 |
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| Description: | Trailer with portable X-Ray machine for taking chest x-rays to detect tuberculosis. |
| Date: | 03 17 1949 |
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| Description: | Interior of trailer with portable X-ray machine. Jean Gibbons, X-ray technician, is shown with unidentified woman getting an X-ray. |
| Date: | 04 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen standing at her car ready to start her daily activities. |
| Date: | 04 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen changes a wound dressing for patient Connie Taylor who is blind and recovering from a fall. |
| Date: | 03 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen caring for elderly resident Clotilda Contell, who she visits regularly. |
| Date: | 04 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen giving some advice about pre-natal problems to Mrs. Arnold Davis, a wife of a GI student at the University of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 04 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen demonstrates to Amy C. Shumway the correct way to bathe her daughter, Carol Louise. |
| Date: | 04 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen checking on bedridden Richard Pedracine. |
| Date: | 05 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Miss Jeanne Gibbons (left), a technician with the Madison Board of Health, explaining the workings of the mobile X-ray unit to members of the Lakewood Scho... |
| Date: | 07 22 1949 |
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| Description: | South Side Men's Club X-Ray Drive members urge all south-side residents over 15 years of age to have chest X-rays taken during the club's anti-tuberculosis... |
| Date: | 07 29 1949 |
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| Description: | Governor Rennebohm signing an appropriation bill for $1,000,000 that will fund 94 added positions at the state's mental institutions. Watching him sign are... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Two children lying sick in bed during the Spanish Flu epidemic. |
| Date: | 11 20 1949 |
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| Description: | Delores Wilkinson, member of the Madison Come-Back Club, and Sylvan Lipski, Milwaukee All-City Flying Club member are shown just before they released five ... |
| 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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two unidentified young Ho-Chunk girls with smallpox are kneeling outside their lodge. Some of the Ho-Chunk suffering from smallpox were quarantined during ... |
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| Description: | An unidentified young Ho-Chunk boy and girl with smallpox are standing outside of their home. The Ho-Chunk girl is wrapped in a shawl and is standing on th... |
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| Description: | A Ho-Chunk girl is wrapped in a shawl and sitting outdoors on the left, and a Ho-Chunk boy posing only in a shirt is standing on the right. Both children ... |
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