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Television for Patients

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

Date: 02 02 1934
Description: Three baby girls were born on President Franklin Roosevelt's birthday; Beverly Ann Shepherd, held by nurse Bernice Schantz, Marilyn Joan Hauden, held by nu...
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Nurses at St. Patrick's Day Luncheon

Date: 03 16 1948
Description: Group portrait of graduate nurses and other women attending a St. Patrick's Day luncheon at St. Mary's Hospital.
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Madison General Hospital Nursing Class

Date: 04 01 1949
Description: Group portrait of the 36 nursing students who received their caps in a ceremony at Madison General Hospital.
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Nurse Anesthetists Banquet

Date: 02 12 1950
Description: Six members of the Wisconsin division of the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists who have completed 25 years of service in the field of anesthesia w...
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Capping Ceremony for Nursing Students of St. Mary's Hospital

Date: 02 27 1951
Description: Forty nursing students at St. Mary's Hospital School of Nursing receive their caps at a ceremony in the hospital chapel. The nurses have successfully compl...
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Miss Ida Collings

Date: 11 29 1951
Description: Miss Ida Collings, second from the left, is honored for her twenty-five years as superintendant of nurses at Madison General Hospital at a reception given ...
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Clara Barton

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Description: Quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Clara Harlowe Barton. On April 20, 1862, after the First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas), she established an...
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Madison Private Duty Nurse Officers

Date: 03 18 1952
Description: Miss Ruth Coe (seated on the right), who is president of the Wisconsin State Nursing Association, was the guest speaker of Madison Private Nurse section di...
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Patient and Nurse at Saint Mary's Sanatorium

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Description: A male patient sits in bed on the porch and receives a meal from a nurse at Saint Mary's Sanatorium, founded in 1880 by Bishop Salpointe. A telephone sits ...
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Madison General Hospital Nurse Capping Ceremony

Date: 06 13 1952
Description: Group portrait of 48 Madison General Hospital student nurses on the event of their 'capping ceremony' which marks the end of their first year of training. ...
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St. Mary's Hospital Student Nurses

Date: 02 14 1954
Description: Group portrait of fifty-one St. Mary's Hospital student nurses who received their caps during ceremonies held at St. James Catholic Church.
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Madison General Hospital Student Nurses

Date: 04 1954
Description: Group portrait of sixty one Madison General Hospital student nurses who have received their nursing caps in a capping ceremony.
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Wisconsin State Student Nurses Association Convention

Date: 09 18 1954
Description: Three Madison General nursing students sit at a luncheon banquet table at Tripp Commons of the Memorial Union. They include Nancy Miner, Sara Lien, and Nan...
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Wisconsin State Student Nurses Association Convention

Date: 09 18 1954
Description: Group portrait of Mary Herb (left), past president, Carol Sommer, the newly-elected president, and Captain Margaret L. Kumpf, Army nurse counselor and banq...
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Philharmonic Chorus Members

Date: 05 14 1956
Description: Monnetta Shippy standing next to an assistant device during her job as a practical nurse at University Hospitals. She is also one of the original members o...
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St. Mary's Hospital School of Nursing

Date: 01 13 1957
Description: Group portrait of fifty St. Mary's Hospital School of Nursing students following a ceremony in which they received their nursing caps.
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Student Nurse Week

Date: 10 07 1957
Description: Methodist Hospital student nurse Sandra Sheller writes a letter home for patient Ray Zimmerman from Murphysboro, Illinois. She is taking part in the state-...
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St. Mary's Graduate Nurses

Date: 08 03 1958
Description: Group portrait of the 1958 graduating class of nurses from St. Mary's Hospital School of Nursing. They are wearing white uniforms and caps with a black str...
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Dane County Medical Assistants Party

Date: 12 15 1959
Description: Members of the Dane County Medical Assistants install their new officers at a party held at the Star Dust Supper Club. Left to right are: Terry Klousie, re...

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