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| Date: | 10 13 1940 |
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| Description: | Educational window display promoting awareness about tuberculosis at the Frankfurter Pharmacy. |
| Date: | 09 17 1942 |
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| Description: | Health for Victory stage, set up with posters, stove and refrigerator for Oscar Mayer at the Eastwood Theater. On the stage is a woman pointing to a poster... |
| Date: | 04 27 1934 |
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| Description: | Three little girls, members of the Emerson Fresh Air school and the Longfellow Nutrition room, playing with puppies in the Capital Times Kiddie Camp... |
| Date: | 04 11 1944 |
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| Description: | Myra Johnson, 323 West Mifflin Street, the newest member of the Visiting Nurse Service staff, with her bicycle, which she uses to make her daily rounds. Ca... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | 1904 Exhibit of the Maryland Association for the Prevention and Relief of Tuberculosis, in a railway coach. Photograph taken in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association traveling health exhibit. Long bus with Tuberculosis information displayed and a crowd gathered. |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | On hot summer days, automobile emissions cause an increase in ground level ozone that can be harmful to health. In Wisconsin, the ozone problem is most acu... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | State Board of Health mobile tuberculosis x-ray unit. The ability to bring tuberculosis diagnostic technology to all parts of the state greatly aided the v... |
| Date: | 09 30 1947 |
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| Description: | James L. Clarke, city health inspector, placing a warning sign on a fence at the Shorewood dump after workers distributed poison bread bait in the dump. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Sign warning International Harvester factory workers against various types of skin diseases. The sign reads: "Skin Diseases; There are many different kinds... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Sign warning International Harvester factory workers about about typhoid fever. The sign reads: "Typhoid Fever is Here; Here are a few facts about it: 1. T... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Sign warning International Harvester factory workers about tuberculosis. The sign reads: "Tuberculosis; There are hundreds of cases of tuberculosis in Chic... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Sign or poster warning International Harvester factory employees about the signs, causes, and prevention of blood poison. The sign reads: "Blood Poison; Si... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 1971 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 09 01 1940 |
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| Description: | An exhibit at the Barron County Fair about the care of premature infants. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A group of children gathers around an International truck modified for use by a public health organization while a woman in a nurse's outfit stands inside.... |
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