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Industrial Health Poster: Tuberculosis

Date: 1921
Description: Sign warning International Harvester factory workers about tuberculosis. The sign reads: "Tuberculosis; There are hundreds of cases of tuberculosis in Chic...
Poster

Industrial Health and Safety Blood Poison Poster

Date: 1921
Description: Sign or poster warning International Harvester factory employees about the signs, causes, and prevention of blood poison. The sign reads: "Blood Poison; Si...
Poster

Industrial Health Pneumonia Sign

Date: 1921
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...
Poster

Industrial Health Influenza Sign

Date: 1918
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 ...
Poster

Warning Against Alcohol

Date: 1921
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...
Photograph

Violet Feeney

Date: 12 29 1947
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...
Photograph

Dr. Harper Tribute

Date: 01 31 1948
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. ...
Photograph

PTA Health Chairwomen

Date: 02 09 1948
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...
Photograph

National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis

Date: 02 19 1948
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...
Photograph

Health Seminar Filming

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Description: Highlander Film Center preparing a health seminar for Alabama.
Photograph

Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 04 19 1948
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...
Photograph

Louis F. Warrick

Date: 04 21 1948
Description: Louis F. Warrick, State Board of Health, at his desk.
Print

Influenza Quarantine Card

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Description: Orange-red colored influenza quarantine card with text in black ink that reads, "All persons are notified of the presence of this disease and on account of...
Photograph

The Red Cross Building

Date: 1958
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...
Photograph

Polio Short Course

Date: 06 29 1948
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...
Photograph

Washington School Hearing Clinic

Date: 07 15 1948
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...
Photograph

Washington School Hearing Clinic

Date: 07 15 1948
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...
Poster

All-Campus Blood Drive Poster

Date: 03 1971
Description: Poster announcing a blood drive at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, sponsored by the Red Cross. Features a "bloodmobile" as an attraction.
Photograph

Jeannette Simmons

Date: 10 19 1948
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...
Photograph

Alcohol Abuse Educational Display

Date: 05 1971
Description: Educational display of the Alcohol Problems Council of Wisconsin, a descendant of the Wisconsin Anti-Saloon League, at a conference of the Wisconsin Parent...

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