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Painting

Fort Howard dans La Grand Baie Verte (Ouisconsin)

Date: 1842
Description: This hand-colored lithograph of the second Fort Howard, with Indians canoeing on the Fox River, shows the hospital built 1834-1835 outside the stockade on ...
Photograph

Nurse with Native Americans

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Description: A nurse poses on steps with a Native American mother and four children.
Poster

Anti-Tuberculosis Association Poster

Date: 1930
Description: Poster created by the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association showing a Native-American man running. Includes the text "exercise for health" and "Christmas...
Poster

Anti-Tuberculosis Association Poster

Date: 1930
Description: Poster created by the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association showing a Native-American man facing the sun with his arms outsretched. Includes the text "su...
Poster

Anti-Tuberculosis Association Poster

Date: 1930
Description: Poster created by the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association showing a Native American man meditating at a campfire. Includes the text "rest" and "Christm...
Map or Atlas

Map of Farwell's Point

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Description: Wisconsin Memorial Hospital with a key to buildings in the upper left. Indian mounds are marked on the site. Arthur Peabody was the state architect for th...
Photograph

Isham Family

Date: 1898
Description: Ira Robinson Isham family at the Lac Courte Oreilles Indian Reservation. From left to right: Isham's son-in-law, Isham, his daughter, and Indian medicine m...
Photograph

Mendota Hospital Centennial Event

Date: 07 16 1960
Description: Several participants tell the early history of Mendota State Hospital at the centennial pageant. They are, left to right: Cecilia Shedleski, a nurse at the...
Photograph

Mobile Testing for Tuberculosis

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Description: Native American women and children wait in line by a bus to be tested for tuberculosis by the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association. A sign points the wa...

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