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Newborn

Date: 03 18 1963
Description: Four generations are represented in this portrait of a newborn baby with his mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.
Photograph

Lake View Tuberculosis Sanatorium

Date: 04 29 1931
Description: Two patients in beds at the Lake View TB Sanatorium ward, located at 1202 Northport Drive.
Photograph

Lake View Tuberculosis Sanitarium

Date: 04 27 1931
Description: View towards patients in beds, with nurses, on the sun porch at the Lake View Tuberculosis Sanitarium.
Postcard

St. Joseph's Hospital

Date: 1905
Description: Caption reads: "St. Joseph's Hospital, Ashland, Wis." Front facade and grounds of the four-story, red brick hospital built in 1905. The basement level is b...
Book or Pamphlet

Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1874
Description: Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute) near Madison.
Photograph

St. John's Hospital

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Description: Interior of the largest ward in St. John's Hospital, started in 1952. Nurses and doctors are standing by patients. One of the patients is sitting next to a...
Photograph

St. John's Hospital

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Description: Interior of the sun parlor of the childrens' ward at St. John's Hospital, started in 1952. A nurse sits between two children in wheelchairs.
Photograph

General Ward at the United States Naval Hospital

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Description: Interior of the general ward at the United States Naval Hospital, established in 1834 on the original site of Fort Nelson. Patients sit in chairs or lie in...
Photograph

United States General Hospital

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Description: View of Ward 15 of the United States General Hospital No. 7, as designated by the surgeon-general in 1918. Intended for returning soldiers' physical recons...
Photograph

United States General Hospital

Date: 1920
Description: View of blind men learning carpentry skills at the United States General Hospital No. 7, as designated by the surgeon-general in 1918. Intended for returni...
Photograph

Chemotherapy Room at the Hospital

Date: 03 02 2015
Description: Solveig, the photographer's wife, sitting in a chair by a window reading a newspaper. A coffee cup is sitting on the window sill next to her, and magazines...

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