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Beach Toss

Date: 08 12 1984
Description: A bikini-clad woman snaps a self-portrait with a long cable release attached to a camera as she is tossed into the air by a group of men on the beach. Othe...
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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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National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis

Date: 02 19 1948
Description: Dr. Clair Turner, Assistant to the president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, is shown at the left as he conferred in Madison with a gro...
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Louis F. Warrick

Date: 04 21 1948
Description: Louis F. Warrick, State Board of Health, at his desk.
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Governor Rennebohm Signs Appropriation Bill

Date: 07 29 1949
Description: Governor Rennebohm signing an appropriation bill for $1,000,000 that will fund 94 added positions at the state's mental institutions. Watching him sign are...
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Tuberculosis Survivor Repairs Typewriters

Date: 11 12 1951
Description: Robert Lawrence works as an apprentice mechanic at Royal Typewriter Company after his recovery from tuberculosis.
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Wisconsin Diagnostic Center

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: An interior view of the new Wisconsin Diagnostic Center for the intensive study of mentally and emotionally disturbed young people, referred to it by the s...
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State-Wide Meeting of Visiting Nurses Groups

Date: 04 10 1958
Description: The Madison Visiting Nurse Service and the Beloit Visiting Nurse Association hosted a state-wide meeting of the visiting nurse groups at the Memorial Union...
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Mental Health Week Survey

Date: 04 29 1958
Description: The Dane County Chapter of the Association for Mental Health conducts a survey of Madison area employers to aid them and their employees with mental health...
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Photo Enactors from the Dane County Association for Mental Health

Date: 04 16 1957
Description: Staged work environment for employees in an industrial setting. In the foreground a man wearing work coveralls is standing at a lathe on a plant floor. Beh...
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Nurses Picketing at UW Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital

Date: 07 06 1981
Description: Men and women picketing outside a hospital, likely UW Hospital. Some of signs they are carrying read: "Poor Staffing is Dangerous to Your Health", "Citizen...
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Nurses Picketing at UW Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital

Date: 07 06 1981
Description: Men and women picketing outside a hospital. Some of signs they are carrying read: "Tired Nurses Are Unsafe", "Stop the Exodus from UWH Before it's too late...
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Nurses Picketing at UW Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital

Date: 07 06 1981
Description: Men and women picketing outside a hospital. Some of signs they are carrying read: "Hospital Workers Together!", "Nurses An Endangered Species UP" and "Wisc...
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Nurses Picketing at UW Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital

Date: 07 06 1981
Description: Men and women picketing outside a hospital. Some of signs they are carrying read: "Poor Staffing is Dangerous to Your Health", "Wanted!! Cheap labor Apply ...
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Nurses Picketing at UW Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital

Date: 07 06 1981
Description: Men and women picketing outside a hospital. Some of signs they are carrying read: "We Don't Want More! And Won't Settle For Less! UP 1199 WSEU 171 WASP", "...
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Nurses Picketing at UW Hospital and St. Mary's Hospital

Date: 07 06 1981
Description: Men and women picketing outside a hospital. Some of signs they are carrying read: "Help us give you - The People good, quality health care? Support UP/1199...

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