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Bathing Baby in Tub

Date: 1937
Description: Dr. Hunter of the Wisconsin Board of Health bathes a baby in a tub of water.
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Sewage Disposal Plant's Sprinkling Filters

Date: 1916
Description: The sprinkling filters under construction at the sewage disposal plant.
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Tea Time

Date: 05 08 1934
Description: Maple Bluff Country Club afternoon tea. Left to right: Mrs. John Stephan, Mrs. J.E. O'Connell, and Mrs. Theodore Lewis, President of the women's organizati...
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Walk-Over Shoe Store Display Window

Date: 03 29 1934
Description: Walk-Over Shoe Store, 8 E. Mifflin Street, display window for National Foot Health Week with National Recovery Administration sign.
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Stacy and Stacy Chiropractic Sign

Date: 12 15 1933
Description: Sign hanging from front porch for Stacy and Stacy Chiropractors, 332 W. Washington Avenue, J. Clifford Stacy and Mary E. Stacy practitioners. The sign read...
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Tuberculosis Patient

Date: 11 15 1949
Description: Doris (Mrs. Edward) Trameri being x-rayed by Dr. James M. Wilkie for tuberculosis at the free chest clinic operated by the Madison Department of Public Hea...
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Attic Angels Association Volunteers at Well Child Center

Date: 04 19 1955
Description: Members of Attic Angels Association volunteering at the Well Child Center, Wisconsin Neurological Foundation, 1954 East Washington Avenue. Included are Na...
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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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Ozone Alert

Date: 1980
Description: On hot summer days, automobile emissions cause an increase in ground level ozone that can be harmful to health. In Wisconsin, the ozone problem is most acu...
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Wisconsin General Hospital Room

Date: 02 08 1945
Description: Wisconsin General Hospital room with two patients and a medical aide in crowded conditions.
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Doctors Examining Patient

Date: 05 19 1947
Description: Three doctors examining a patient for the Cancer Society.
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Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 09 11 1947
Description: Visiting Nurse Service, sponsored by Attic Angels, at a child health center at Emerson School. This center is one of five child health centers sponsored by...
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Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 09 11 1947
Description: Visiting Nurse Service volunteers, sponsored by Attic Angels, conduct a child health examination at Longfellow School. Rea Ragatz, center, is watching Dr. ...
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Automatic Reducing Lounge

Date: 06 24 1946
Description: Client lying on an automatic reducing lounge, being monitored by an attendant, taking a reducing treatment at Rendahl Health Baths and Reducing Parlor, 227...
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School Children at Puppet Show

Date: 02 18 1948
Description: Six Emerson elementary school children at a puppet show promoting good teeth care. The children, from left to right are, first row: Ronald Gamer, Nancy Fo...
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Dentist Examining a Child's Teeth

Date: 05 03 1948
Description: Mrs. Zean (Gladys) Braiger observes a dentist checking the teeth of Ronald Opelt. The mothers of Madison's Parent-Teacher associations promoted a "summer r...
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Children Gathered Around Scale

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Description: Group of small children gathered around a table outdoors near a building on which a toddler is being weighed using a baby scale.
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Tuberculosis Patient

Date: 11 15 1949
Description: Doris Trameri, 568 Park Lane, re-enacts receiving a routine chest x-ray at the free chest clinic operated by the Madison Department of Public Health. Dr. J...
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Christmas Seals

Date: 11 26 1949
Description: Gov. Oscar Rennebohm presenting a check for his contribution to the 1949 Madison Christmas Seal sale to Esther Hermsen of the Madison Tuberculosis Associat...
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Madison Heart Campaign Committee

Date: 01 30 1950
Description: Group portrait of the committee for the 1950 Heart Campaign. Seated left to right: Mrs. James (Anya) Castle, Ladies Committee Chairman; Mrs. Frederick (Vio...

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