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| Date: | 03 18 1963 |
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| Description: | Four generations are represented in this portrait of a newborn baby with his mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. |
| Date: | 10 04 1958 |
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| Description: | A new mother is looking on as her 13-pound newborn infant is weighed by the nurse. |
| Date: | 05 18 1937 |
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| Description: | Evelyn Canfield, in Madison General Hospital bed, looks to her newborn baby, David, who won the Orpheum Theatre's fourth anniversary "A Star Is Born" conte... |
| Date: | 07 22 1935 |
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| Description: | Clara Halvorson, married to Henry Halvorson, resting with her 17th child, John Skews Halvorson, at Methodist Hospital shortly after the baby's birth. She w... |
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| Description: | A nurse poses on steps with a Native American mother and four children. |
| Date: | 10 16 1944 |
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| Description: | Three women and three children at a meeting of the Madison Home Economics Club with the theme "Good Nutrition, A Wartime Challenge." Left to right are Mrs.... |
| Date: | 04 16 1947 |
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| Description: | Public Health Nursing Week. Helen Guelzow of the Visiting Nurse Service making her daily physical check-up of two University of Wisconsin nursery school ch... |
| Date: | 09 11 1947 |
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| Description: | Visiting Nurse Service volunteers, sponsored by Attic Angels, interview Mrs. George (Francees) Urbanis, and daughter Carol Jean, eleven weeks old. Voluntee... |
| Date: | 04 19 1948 |
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| Description: | Visiting nurse Maude Rydberg of the Madison Visiting Nurse Service, shows Mrs. William E. Johnson, the former Jane Weston, the proper way to use the cotton... |
| Date: | 11 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Bertha Atkinson, Baron Brothers Department Store buyer, fits a bootie on Norma Widener, 11-months old, being held by her mother Valera Widener. In the fore... |
| Date: | 01 27 1949 |
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| Description: | Dr. Elinor Verville, left, staff psychologist serving at several of Madison's well-baby centers, discusses with Mrs. Jake Ament her baby's health and behav... |
| Date: | 04 11 1949 |
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| Description: | Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen demonstrates to Amy C. Shumway the correct way to bathe her daughter, Carol Louise. |
| Date: | 06 01 1950 |
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| Description: | Dr. Ruth Foster, left, is shown examaning baby Janet Lee Sommerville while assisted by Nurse H. Anita Anderson as the mother, Mrs. Robert Somerville, is lo... |
| Date: | 09 19 1950 |
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| Description: | Volunteers supplement the nursing staff in many ways to accomplish the many tasks in a modern hospital. St. Mary's hospital is fortunate in having an organ... |
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| Description: | A nurse sits between two mothers with babies on their laps. They are discussing "individual problems of maternal and child health." |
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| Description: | Mothers with babies register at the Health Center. In the background chairs line the walls, and above them are posters on health. |
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| Description: | Mothers sit with their babies in their arms as they wait for nurses to examine the infants. Infant clothing is hanging on a clothesline strung along the ba... |
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| Description: | Parents watch as their baby is given a physical examination by a woman at the Health Center. |
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| Description: | Women, who are accompanied by their children, register at the Health Center. On the walls are displayed posters on health and food. |
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| Description: | A nurse demonstrates several articles of clothing to mothers at the Health Center. |
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