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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

J.S. Timlin Lumber Company

Date: 1958
Description: Aerial photograph showing the J.S. Timlin Lumber Company, 2702 University Avenue, as well as Doctors Park, the Veterans Hospital, and the First Unitarian S...
Print

Madison Hospital

Date: 1890
Description: Advertisement for Madison Hospital, 413-415 South Baldwin Street. Also known as the Gill & Boyd Hospital, opened in 1889 and existed for just a few years.
Photograph

Four Infants in Incubators

Date: 12 26 1957
Description: Newborn infants lying in incubators sleeping.
Photograph

Scrabble Game

Date: 04 11 1965
Description: A hospital patient plays a scrabble game with an occupational therapist.
Photograph

Water Tower and St. Mary's Hospital

Date: 
Description: Water tower (built 1875), with St. Mary's Hospital behind it on the left.
Photograph

Newborn

Date: 03 18 1963
Description: Four generations are represented in this portrait of a newborn baby with his mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.
Photograph

Hospital Care

Date: 1950
Description: University of Wisconsin-Whitewater students care for a patient at the Fort Atkinson Hospital.
Photograph

Rocking Newborns

Date: 1950
Description: Women feed and rock newborn babies in a neonatal hospital unit.
Photograph

Television for Patients

Date: 1950
Description: Hospital or nursing home patients are able to view television in their rooms.
Photograph

Nurse with Child Patient

Date: 1950
Description: Nurse with a young girl patient and a container of blood.
Photograph

Big Baby

Date: 10 04 1958
Description: A new mother is looking on as her 13-pound newborn infant is weighed by the nurse.
Photograph

Unitarian Church and Vet's Hospital

Date: 1950
Description: Aerial view of the Frank Lloyd-Wright-dsigned Unitarian Church under construction and the Veteran's Administration Hospital, also under construction, to th...
Photograph

Hospital Patient Watching Television

Date: 01 17 1958
Description: The installation of televisions in hospital rooms is a welcome addition to this patient at Misericordia Hospital.
Postcard

St. Mary's Hospital in Madison

Date: 1915
Description: St. Mary's Hospital soon after its completion in 1911. Caption reads: "St. Mary's Hospital."
Postcard

Madison City Hospital

Date: 1910
Description: View of City Hospital, which became known as Madison General Hospital and is now Meriter Hospital. It was designed by Madison architects Louis W. Claude an...
Photograph

Confined to Bed

Date: 08 28 1960
Description: An insurance executive carries on with work after he was hit by a car, dictating letters to his secretary from his hospital bed, with his leg in traction.
Photograph

St. Joseph's Computer

Date: 12 14 1967
Description: A secretary in the pathology department at St. Joseph's Hospital working at a new computer.
Photograph

Methodist Hospital Officials

Date: 06 09 1944
Description: Group of five men around a desk at Methodist Hospital, 309 West Washington Avenue.
Photograph

Mendota State Hospital Award Presentation

Date: 01 16 1944
Description: Ralph Runge, Local #1 Chairman of the WSDA membership committee, presenting the President Zander Membership Cup to Jay D. Ferguson, Chairman of the winning...

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