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Manuscript

Chippewa Spring Sanitorium Hotel

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Description: Front cover of Prospectus of The Chippewa Spring Sanitorium Hotel. An illustration of the hotel is included along with the words: "Health, Rest, And Joy".
Postcard

Sanatorium

Date: 1905
Description: View across lawn towards the sanatorium. People are around a swing in the yard. Caption reads: "The Sanatorium, Hudson, Wis."
Photograph

Taylor Orphan Asylum

Date: 1890
Description: The Taylor Orphan Asylum, view from the rear. Children are playing on the lawn in front.
Photograph

Tuberculosis Patient Making Dolls

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Description: Tuberculosis patient sitting in a sanatorium bed making dolls.
Postcard

Waldheim Park Sanatorium Boat House

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Description: Waldheim Park Sanatorium boat house. Caption reads: "Boat House, Waldheim Park Sanatorium, Oconomowoc, Wis."
Photograph

Shriners Yule Party

Date: 12 18 1947
Description: Fletcher Mills doing a card trick for three children, with a clown looking on, at the Madison Shriners yule party at the Washington Orthopedic School, 545 ...
Magazine or Periodical

National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers

Date: 1870
Description: Magazine illustration of the home, titled: "Soldiers' National Asylum at Milwaukee, Wisconsin". The building is in the background, and in the foreground ar...
Photograph

Dr. Elinor Verville

Date: 01 27 1949
Description: Dr. Elinor Verville, left, staff psychologist serving at several of Madison's well-baby centers, discusses with Mrs. Jake Ament her baby's health and behav...
Photograph

Patients at Saint Mary's Sanatorium

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Description: View of patients resting in chairs and nurses standing near them at Saint Mary's Sanatorium, founded in 1880 by Bishop Salpointe. A large cactus and a palm...
Photograph

Porch at Saint Mary's Sanatorium

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Description: View from grounds toward patients sitting on the porch of the rotunda at Saint Mary's Sanatorium, founded in 1880 by Bishop Salpointe. A nurse stands near ...
Photograph

Second Annual Picnic at Dane County Asylum Farm

Date: 07 04 1917
Description: Panoramic view of the staff and residents of the Dane County Asylum at the second annual picnic for the institution.
Photograph

Baseball Stars Tour Veterans Hospital

Date: 01 28 1954
Description: Robert (Red) Wilson (left), one of Wisconsin's all-time football and baseball greats and a catcher for the Chicago White Sox, acts as catcher behind bat ho...
Photograph

Parker Hospital

Date: 1922
Description: View of Parker Hospital from the walkway. Leaves cover the lawn. There is a lawn swing in the yard.
Photograph

Sale of Christmas Seals Help Tuberculosis Patients

Date: 11 12 1957
Description: Lorena Coffee of Black River Falls cuddles her 2-year-old daughter, Dawn, who is a tuberculosis patient at Morningside Sanatorium.
Photograph

011 - Health Cabin

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Description: The health cabin located in a wooded setting. Original caption notes: "Here our medical counselor lives and keeps her equipment. In a separate room are two...
Photograph

Class "E" Race

Date: 08 1933
Description: The skipper and crew sail their "E" class boat in a race at the 1933 Inland Lake Yachting Association Regatta on Lake Mendota. Lake View Sanatorium is on t...
Photograph

Madison Health Studio

Date: 01 15 1958
Description: John L. "Bud" Fuller, proprietor of Madison Health Studio at 235 West Gilman street. He is sitting in a workout room, where men can be seen behind him on a...
Photograph

Madison Health Studio

Date: 01 15 1958
Description: Clients of the Madison Health Studio at 235 West Gilman Street in the exercise area lifting free weights.
Photograph

Madison Health Studio

Date: 01 15 1958
Description: John "Bud" Fuller, proprietor of Madison Health Studio at 235 West Gilman Street, exercising the neck of Tom Felhofer, a U.W. baseball player.
Photograph

Madison Health Studio

Date: 01 15 1958
Description: Professional wrestler, "Lil" Arthur Thomas, tensing his biceps at the Madison Health Studio at 235 West Gilman Street.

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