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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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Gisholt Employees Donate to Good Neighbor Fund

Date: 09 16 1950
Description: Caroline Genske, an office worker at Gisholt Machine Company, starts the process of check writing for the nearly one hundred percent participation of the c...
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Madison General Hospital Auxiliary

Date: 01 02 1951
Description: Catherine Coleman, standing right, chair of the Madison General Hospital Auxiliary Memorial Fund, showing her card file to Grace Crafts, hospital administr...
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Red Cross Blood Bank Drive

Date: 12 13 1951
Description: Dane County Highway Department employees line up to donate blood during the annual Red Cross blood bank drive. Left to right: James O'Connell, Russell Roed...
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Wisconsin State Student Nurses' Association

Date: 03 19 1952
Description: Shown are six members of the Wisconsin State Student Nurses' association at the University of Wisconsin. From left to right, they are Marilyn Hall, Lexy Ne...
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Madison General Hospital Addition Dedication

Date: 07 19 1952
Description: R.J. Sutherland, president of the board of directors of the Madison General Hospital Association, standing at the lectern to the left as he gives the main ...
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Local Union Officers

Date: 06 23 1952
Description: New AFSCME union officers of Local 720 of the Dane County Courthouse and Lake View Santorium employees. Left to right: Doris Williams, secretary; Rodney Sc...
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Blood Drive at St. Mary's Hospital

Date: 12 18 1953
Description: Four St. Mary's hospital nuns participate in the hospital staff blood drive. Red Cross nurse Barbara Zimmerman takes the blood pressure of Sister Mary Virg...
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Madison General Hospital Blood Drive

Date: 11 22 1953
Description: Myrna Brindley offers doughnuts to Madison General Hospital employees and staff blood donors Jane Watson and Richard Zellinski. The American Red Cross bloo...
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Women Making Gift Packages

Date: 12 17 1953
Description: Three unidentified women (employees or volunteers) possibly at and possibly from radio station WIBA, making up Christmas gift packages of candy, nuts, and ...
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Madison General Hospital Auxiliary, Flame Photometer

Date: 09 29 1954
Description: Two volunteer workers of the Madison General Hospital auxiliary, Mrs. John F. Mullen (left), West Point, and Mrs. William W. (Melva) Marling of 302 Walnut ...
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Wisconsin Telephone Operators with Christmas Baskets

Date: 12 21 1956
Description: Wisconsin Telephone Company operators are shown with Christmas baskets of food to be delivered to the needy. Left to right: Barbara Gardner, Ione Wall, Van...
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Dane County Medical Assistants Scholarship

Date: 07 24 1957
Description: Donna Lou Ritchie, left, receiving a $100 scholarship from the Dane County Medical Assistants organization. She will begin nursing studies at Madison Gener...
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Dane County Medical Assistants' Bosses Night

Date: 02 05 1959
Description: Group portrait of attendees at the Annual Bosses' Night dinner for doctors, given by the Dane County Medical Assistants Association. Shown left to right: D...
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Dane County Medical Assistants' Bosses Night

Date: 02 05 1959
Description: Group portrait of three attendees at the Dane County Medical Assistants' Bosses Night dinner. Seated at the table, left to right, are: Dr. George Berglund,...
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Dane County Medical Assistants' Bosses Night

Date: 02 05 1959
Description: Violet Owen (president of the Wisconsin Medical Assistants group) is shown at left chatting with Lois Pluckhan (secretary of the American Association of Me...
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We Saw You Entertaining VA Patients

Date: 12 19 1960
Description: The women's chapter of B'nai B'rith took care of the entertainment of patients and guests at the VA hospital on Christmas morning. Alma Sweet, longtime lia...
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Wisconsin State Historical Society Founders Day Banquet

Date: 01 28 1961
Description: Lois Elsener, left, and Mary McCann, both business office employees, take reservations from a group that includes, left to right, Walter F. Scott of the So...
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Civil Service Act Anniversary Dinner

Date: 01 21 1961
Description: Four members of the American Federation of Government Employees visit with the guest speaker at the dinner to celebrate the 78th anniversary of the United ...
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New Plastic Blood Transfusion Bags

Date: 12 30 1964
Description: Technician Gail Stelzer checking shelves filled with new plastic blood transfusion bags at the Madison Chapter of Badger Red Cross, which recently converte...

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