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Pharmacy Class, U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: Students from the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School perform practical experiments for the chemistry phase of their course. The officer in charge of th...
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First Aid Instruction, U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: One member of the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps class demonstrates the method of treating a leg injury while fellow classmen look on and make notes. The ...
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Mr. Bones

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: The class of U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School Pharmacists' Mates-to-be is introduced to the skeleton of the human body as part of their studies of an...
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Aqua Pura

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: This student of the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School is carefully measuring out a quantity of distilled water for a prescription. Distilled water is ...
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Filtering a Prescription

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: A Pharmacist Mate-in-Training from the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School filters a liquid for a test prescription. This filtration process helped to e...
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Student Compounding a Prescription

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: A member of the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School uses the traditional pharmacist's tool of a mortar & pestle to grind medicinal ingredients for a pre...
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Weighing Powders

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: A member of the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School carefully measures and weighs powdered ingredients for a prescription.
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Measuring with a Medicine Dropper

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: A member of the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School uses a small medicine dropper to precisely measure and mix liquid ingredients for a prescription.
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Rolling Bandages

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: Two members of the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School roll bandages with the help of a crank-operated machine. Part of their training involved the prep...
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Learning about Medicine Bottles

Date: 04 04 1943
Description: Members from the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School meet in the pharmaceutical laboratory where they checked medicinal products and learned to identify...
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Corporal Harold Haven and Sargeant Russell West

Date: 02 24 1944
Description: Corporal Harold Haven standing on a stack of packaged books, handing packages to Sargeant Russell West at the United States Armed Forces Insitute supply de...
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United States Armed Forces Institute Employees

Date: 08 01 1944
Description: Two workers at the United State Armed Forces Institute are: Robert Halverson and John Barr, recently in the armed services and participants in the educatio...
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United States Armed Forces Institute

Date: 12 30 1947
Description: Assembling educational materials for servicemen-students all over the world are the employees of the United States Armed Forces Institute (USAFI), headquar...
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United States Armed Forces Institute

Date: 12 30 1947
Description: Commander O.W. Goepner standing in front of a map showing overseas armed forces units being served by the United States Armed Forces Institute (USAFI) whic...
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United States Armed Forces Institute

Date: 12 30 1947
Description: Major Glenn McConagha, commandant of the United States Armed Forces Institute (USAFI) seated at a desk signing a course completion certificate. USAFI provi...
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Class at Camp Perry

Date: 1942
Description: A group of uniformed military men sit in wooden chairs inside a building at Camp Perry as they are instructed on various kinds of machinery. Two chalkboard...
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Naval Students in Classroom

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Description: Naval students sit together at long tables and write messages while listening to earphones at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). In the background a m...
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Bettina Bjorksten

Date: 12 08 1953
Description: Portrait of Bettina Bjorksten, an opera singer and teacher in Madison and other cities. Her family migrated from Germany to Brazil when Naziism became 'une...

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