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Neurological Hospital Observes Anniversary

Date: 11 01 1960
Description: A scene at the Wisconsin Neurological Foundation, 1954 East Washington Avenue, which is observing it's 10th anniversary. Patient Jim Markl, Watertown, WI, ...
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Neurological Hospital Observes Anniversary

Date: 11 01 1960
Description: A scene at the Wisconsin Neurological Foundation, 1954 East Washington Avenue, which is observing it's 10th anniversary. Multiple sclerosis patient Lorett...
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Mrs. Anna McFarlane with Nurses on the Newly Remodeled 4th Floor of the Lake View Sanatorium

Date: 10 01 1958
Description: Mrs. Anna McFarlane is surrounded by nurses in her bed on the newly remodeled 4th floor of the Lake View Sanatorium. Mrs. McFarlane is surrounded by attend...
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Red Cross First Aid Training

Date: 02 11 1942
Description: Two women applying bandages to a female patient with a nurse looking on. They are Wisconsin State Capitol employees learning first aid from the Red Cross.
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Portrait of Eleanor Holt

Date: 01 27 1919
Description: A portrait of Eleanor Holt with her face bathed in natural light, sitting in her hospital room. A pillow case is covering the back of the wooden chair. Wea...
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Red Cross Gray Ladies Volunteer at the Wisconsin Diagnostic Center

Date: 03 04 1958
Description: Red Cross Gray Ladies Mrs. Irving J. Maurer (left, 30 Fuller Drive) and Mrs. Ralph Penniall (right, 37-B University Houses) give advice and assistance to t...
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Public Health Clinic, Town of Lake

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Description: Two men are checking children with stethoscopes, another man is looking into a girl's mouth, and two women are writing in notepads. Other women and many ch...
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First Year of School for a Cambridge Farm Girl

Date: 08 16 1957
Description: Stoughton physician Dr. Rodney K. Peterson checking the ear of Barbara Notstad during a pre-school medical examination while her mother is looking on. Barb...
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New Born Girl Lee Ann Steele

Date: 08 13 1955
Description: Baby girl Lee Ann Steele born to Max & Luella Steele on August 12, 1955.
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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: Nurse Marie Holt adjusting the new X-ray machine over a patient lying on the table, while Selma Haase, in the right foreground, is waiting to take a pictur...
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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: Two women from Illinois at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic. One woman is pushing the other woman who is sitting in a wheelchair.
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81st Birthday party for "Auntie" Benson

Date: 07 03 1957
Description: Madison General Hospital nurses singing "Happy Birthday" to Gunda Benson, who is seated in her wheelchair and surrounded by the group.
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Polio Victim Returns Home After Treatment

Date: 05 22 1957
Description: Robert Jensen, 24 of McFarland, is sitting in a wheelchair after exiting an airplane following a flight from Ann Arbor, Michigan, where he was treated for ...
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Girl in Wheelchair

Date: 09 17 1931
Description: Girl in wheelchair with teacher at Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital for Children, University of Wisconsin, 436 North Randall Street.
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Orthopedic Hospital Classroom

Date: 09 17 1931
Description: Students seated at desks at Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital for Children, University of Wisconsin, 436 North Randall Street.
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Rug Weaving, Wisconsin Memorial Hospital

Date: 03 04 1932
Description: A military veteran learns rug weaving at Wisconsin Memorial Hospital on Farwell Point, adjoining Mendota Mental Health Hospital as part of his rehabilitati...
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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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Children at Morningside Sanitorium

Date: 06 01 1935
Description: Group portrait of children with tuberculosis and their attendants, and with a man and woman in Salvation Army uniforms, sitting in a classroom at the Morni...
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Nurse Alma Padgett Feeding a Patient

Date: 02 20 1942
Description: Nurse Alma Padgett feeding a patient from a tray of food at Mendota State Hospital (Mendota Mental Health Institute).
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Patient in Wisconsin General Hospital Hallway

Date: 02 08 1945
Description: Patient being wheeled past laundry baskets and lockers in overcrowded Wisconsin General Hospital basement hallway.

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