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William C. Klatt, as a Physician

Date: 1905
Description: William C. Klatt, member of the Menomonie High School class of 1905, depicted as a physician operating on a disembodied head. Darkroom manipulation was use...
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Operating Theater

Date: 1902
Description: Dr. Nicholas Senn demonstrates surgical techniques at Rush Medical College.
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Governor Schmedeman in Wheelchair

Date: 10 26 1934
Description: Governor Albert Schmedeman sitting in a wheelchair smoking a cigarette, following left leg amputation.
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Cadet Singers

Date: 08 29 1930
Description: Floyd's Cadets (singers), a vaudeville act, in military uniforms standing in a "V" formation with hands on hips on stage at Orpheum Theatre. "First use of ...
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Operating Room

Date: 1911
Description: Doctors and nurses surround a patient on a gurney in an operating room at Stobhill General Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Madison General Hospital Operating Room

Date: 05 13 1953
Description: View of a surgical procedure in process at Madison General Hospital. Student nurses are observing from a glassed-in gallery at the rear.
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Red Cross Blood Recipient

Date: 01 29 1954
Description: Portrait of Phillip Drotning, executive secretary to Governor Walter J. Kohler, and surviving recipient of 30 pints of blood from the Red Cross during surg...
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Red Cross Blood Recipient

Date: 02 14 1954
Description: Norman and Dorothy Braith stand beside Norman's iceboat "Mary B," the prize-winning iceboat owned by O. T. Havey. Norman is one of the crewmen and Dorothy ...
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USS Relief Surgery

Date: 04 1945
Description: View of the gloved hands of a pair of surgeons as they begin to operate on a patient in Japan. One person is holding a scalpel over a portion of an exposed...
Print

International Truck Advertising Proof

Date: 11 1948
Description: Advertising proof for International trucks, featuring color illustrations of a truck carrying coal, a baby, a hospital scene, and a refrigerator. Includes ...
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Sale of Christmas Seals Help Tuberculosis Patients

Date: 11 11 1957
Description: Judy Schroeder of Reedsburg, a patient at Lake View Sanatorium, sits at a desk while painting. While preparing for heart surgery, it was discovered that sh...
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Richard and Michael Schepp

Date: 07 09 1958
Description: Richard "Ricky" and Michael "Mickey" Schepp, ten-year-old twin sons of Charles and Matilda Schepp, pose with their arms around each other's shoulders at a ...
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Blood Donors Keep Patient Alive

Date: 09 10 1959
Description: Tim Farrell and his mother, Mrs. Leslie Farrell, Pine Bluff, entertain "blood kin" Dr. Herbert Howe whose blood helped keep Tim alive during open heart sur...
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Class of 1945 Plan 15th Reunion

Date: 05 13 1960
Description: Members of the University of Wisconsin Class of 1945 plan its 15 year reunion to be held at the Cuba Club in Madison. Seated left to right are: Mrs. Omar K...
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Treating a Wounded Soldier

Date: 07 15 1965
Description: Medics treating Paratrooper Private First Class Richard F. Greene of Silver Springs, MD at Airborne battalion aid station at Santo Domingo, Dominican Repub...
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Navy Doctors Performing Surgery

Date: 1945
Description: Three male medical personnel operate on a wounded soldier while a female medic administers anaesthetic.
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Student Has Radical Brain Surgery

Date: 09 23 1964
Description: Mark Newman is shown sitting behind a stack of books as he returns to La Follette High School three weeks after radical surgery for a brain tumor. Behind h...
Book or Pamphlet

Holy Family Hospital, Operating Room

Date: 1901
Description: View of the brightly lit, tiled floor operating room. Cast-iron furniture includes an operating table, with a slanted central opening for drainage of fluid...
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Game Farm Laboratory

Date: 10 1935
Description: A man wearing a white surgical gown and gloves is standing at a surgical table. He is performing a necropsy on a small animal. There is a double basin stan...
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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: Surgeon Dr. K.K. Rossmann preparing for surgery at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic. He is scrubbed up for the operating room in his gloves, hat and robe....

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