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Operating Table at Northern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled

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Description: The operating table at the Northern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled.
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Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane Pharmacy Dispensary

Date: 1893
Description: Pharmacy supplies are displayed in shelves in an office at the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane, lit by gas lamps hanging above the desk. (Mendota M...
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Optometrist's Office

Date: 1906
Description: View of an optometrist's office, with equipment and supplies awaiting a patient.
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Red Cross Blood Donor Recipeint

Date: 11 07 1958
Description: Three year-old Louise Runge, center, whose life was saved by the blood of an unknown Red Cross donor, is shown with University of Wisconsin student Nancy S...
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Hospital Corps 1st Wisconsin Regiment

Date: 1898
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Hospital Crew of the 1st Wisconsin Regiment. Two men wear canteens and bags. Others wear straps around their necks that were ...
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State Employees Making Surgical Dressings

Date: 08 17 1942
Description: State female employees making surgical dressings / bandages for the American Red Cross in the Wisconsin State Employees Association building, 448 W. Washin...
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Red Cross Peacetime Activities

Date: 02 26 1952
Description: The work of the Red Cross in peacetime is less well publicized than its services during wartime. Their blood bank program is considered one of the most out...
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National Hearing Month

Date: 05 09 1958
Description: Governor Vernon Thompson signs an official proclamation declaring May as national hearing month. Sitting on his knee is Jean Monteith, 4, of Richland Cente...
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Gifts For Neurological Patients

Date: 09 29 1960
Description: Pauline Dubner, a patient at the Wisconsin Neurological Foundation, poses in her hospital bed next to a new record player in a case. Behind her stand the f...
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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: The nursery and neonatal unit at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic.
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Dentist Office

Date: 02 27 1978
Description: "Dentist Office. Dr. Paul Thyberg, and Dental Assistant Connie Schaumberg."
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Eagles Auxilary Meets to Make Cancer Dressings

Date: 05 10 1956
Description: Members of the Eagles Auxiliary meet to make cancer dressings out of used sheets.
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Mrs. Rena Gigous

Date: 04 26 1953
Description: Mrs. Rena Gigous made 200 cancer dressings in January. The dressings are displayed at Baron's and Yost Kessnichs department stores.
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Red Cross Blood Donor

Date: 09 08 1950
Description: Jules S. Jacobs sitting on a bed at the American Red Cross Regional Blood Center on East Washington Avenue after becoming the one thousandth donor at the n...
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 12 09 1951
Description: City Attorney Harold E. Hanson has his blood pressure taken by Mary Clancy, Red Cross blood center staff nurse.
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Dane County Health Council Association

Date: 09 22 1952
Description: Student Gloria Niebuhr has her eyes tested by Dane County Health Council Association volunteer Mrs. Robert Drunasky. Looking on is student Eugene Bosben.
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Medical Students Horseplay

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Description: A medical student is playing with electric shock equipment as Dr. Eugene Krohn, sitting at his desk with his feet up, is looking on. This is a carefully po...
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Dane County Medical Society Women's Auxiliary

Date: 04 12 1955
Description: Sally Littig, chairman of the "loan closet" committee of the Women's Auxiliary of Dane County Medical Society visits with Nellie Kedzie Jones who lies in a...
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Dane County Health Council Association

Date: 09 22 1952
Description: First grade student Frank Eschler has his hearing tested by Sun Prairie Health Council chairman Mrs. Marshall Thorpe. Looking on is student Kathleen Wacket...
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Ernie and Lill Kallsen

Date: 10 1983
Description: "While vacationing at Cable, WI, Ernie Kallsen sustained a broken neck after diving into shallow water. Ernie, pictured with his wife Lill, had to wear a n...

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