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Wendell Willkie and Aaron Martin Brayton

Date: 03 1944
Description: Wendell Willkie visits with Aaron Martin Brayton, retired editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, on his bed in a local hospital room during Willkie'...
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Walt Kelly on Book Tour

Date: 09 26 1952
Description: Cartnoonist Walt Kelly draws one of his famous cartoon characters for an audience of veterans at the Veterans Hospital.
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Chuck Seals, Artist and Craftsman

Date: 03 22 1944
Description: Charles B. (Chuck) Seals, with pipe, a 25 year-old handicapped shut-in, who is a painter, a sculptor, a student and omnivorous reader, a fisherman, a swimm...
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Visiting Nurse Service Staff Nurses

Date: 04 11 1944
Description: Rosemary Kreilkamp, 222 South Carroll Street, Alice Sanborn, 3005 Harvard Drive, and Ann L. Schmich, director of the Visiting Nurse Service in Madison, exa...
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Dr. F.F. Bowman

Date: 05 18 1944
Description: Dr. F.F. Bowman, Madison health officer for the past sixteen years.
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Swimming Safety

Date: 05 14 1944
Description: Linda Seed, lifeguard, is removing sand from the eye of John Hilhard with the help of Jackie Klopp, who is handing her an ampule of olive oil to soothe Joh...
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Swimming Safety

Date: 05 14 1944
Description: Lifeguard Georgia Haas is applying artificial respiration to Lewis Noonan at the beach.
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Swimming Safety

Date: 06 14 1944
Description: Lifeguard Kenneth Harwick applying a first aid bandage to the foot of Hazel Gehri, who is holding a shattered milk bottle left on the beach.
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Superintendents of State Welfare Institutions

Date: 10 23 1944
Description: Group portrait of 13 superintendents of state welfare institutions with A.W. Bayley (extreme right, standing), director of the Wisconsin Deptartment of Pub...
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Nurse's Aid and Infant by Christmas Tree

Date: 11 21 1944
Description: Mrs. Margaret Horstmeier, nurse's aide at Methodist Hospital, shows a Christmas tree ornament to infant John Monegar.
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Jeanne DeBarr, Forsberg Box Company Employee

Date: 02 01 1945
Description: Jeanne DeBarr, a blind employee working at Forsberg Box Company, with her dog.
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Modern Furniture Shop Upholsterer

Date: 02 08 1945
Description: An upholsterer at Modern Furniture Shop, 2111-19 Atwood Avenue, restores an antique chaise longue. W.E. Schmidt is the owner of the shop.
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John Simpson

Date: 02 28 1945
Description: Portrait of John Simpson, who after an absence of several weeks caused by a broken hip suffered by a fall early in December, returned to Muller-Simpson Co....
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Artist Alex Hardie

Date: 03 14 1945
Description: Alex Hardie painting a watercolor with the brush held between his teeth. Alex lost portions of both arms in a railroad accident in 1900.
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Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 09 11 1947
Description: Group portrait of the Attic Angel Association meeting at the Visiting Nurse Service headquarters, 418 West Mifflin Street. Left to right: Mrs. Walter A. (D...
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Rat Extermination

Date: 09 30 1947
Description: James Capacio and John H. Endres, assistant to L.B. Kelly of the Solvit Chemical Company, distributing poison bread at the Shorewood dump in a rat extermin...
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Veterans Administration Hospital

Date: 10 15 1947
Description: Workers and patients at tables in the canteen in a Quonset hut at the Veterans Administration Hospital on the grounds of the Mendota State Hospital.
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Dr. August Sauthoff

Date: 12 18 1947
Description: Dr. August Sauthoff, clinical director and assistant superintendent of Mendota State Hospital, retired January 31, 1948 at the age of 72.(Mendota Mental He...
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Dr. M.K. Green

Date: 12 23 1947
Description: Portrait of Dr. M.K. Green, Superintendent of Mendota State Hospital from March 1924 until his retirement in January, 1948. (Mendota Mental Health Institut...
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Dr. Walter J. Urben

Date: 01 28 1948
Description: Portrait of Dr. Walter J. Urben, newly appointed superintendent of Mendota State hospital, who started work on Sunday Feb. 1st 1948. He was previously dire...

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