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| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A game room with chairs, a pool table, a rack for cue sticks, and a table with checker board and deck of cards is available for patients' recreation at the... |
| Date: | 07 04 1917 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of the staff and residents of the Dane County Asylum at the second annual picnic for the institution. |
| Date: | 09 01 1954 |
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| Description: | A young boy plays with building blocks at the Wisconsin Diagnostic Center for the intensive study of mentally and emotionally disturbed young people. The b... |
| Date: | 09 01 1954 |
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| Description: | A patient plays cards with Eugenia Hoover, a psychiatric aide, at the Wisconsin Diagnostic Center at 1552 University Avenue. The Center is for the intensiv... |
| Date: | 02 21 1961 |
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| Description: | Zonta Club members Jane Mittelstaedt and Cecetia Mullins watch as a patient at the Mendota State Hospital tries to "hit the clown" with a rubber sponge dur... |
| Date: | 07 22 1960 |
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| Description: | Employees of Mendota State Hospital act out the history of the hospital in a centennial pageant. In this scene, the hospital board visits the newly-built h... |
| Date: | 07 16 1960 |
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| Description: | Employees dress in turn-of-the-century dresses for a scene in a centennial pageant depicting nursing at Mendota State Hospital. The costumes were from the ... |
| Date: | 07 16 1960 |
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| Description: | Present day hospital administrators consider the centennial pageant of the history of Mendota State Hospital a success. They are, left to right: Dr. Walter... |
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