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Nurses at Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital

Date: 11 06 1947
Description: Two nurses feeding infants at the Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital, 1415 Linden Drive.
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Therapy at Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital

Date: 11 06 1947
Description: Two young male patients and an occupational therapist doing an activity at the Wisconsin Orthodpedic Hospital, 1415 Linden Drive.
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Children at Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital

Date: 11 06 1947
Description: A ward at the Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital, 1415 Linden Drive, showing three children in cribs, and a small table with three toddlers seated in small chai...
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Physical Examination

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Description: A nurse or doctor gives an infant a physical examination at the Health Center as the baby's mother looks on.
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Health Class

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Description: A nurse points to charts while teaching maternal and infant health to a small class of mothers who have children on their laps.
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Registering 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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Physical Examination of Young Girl

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Description: A nurse or doctor at the Health Center gives a girl a physical examination as the mother, who is holding a baby, looks on.
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Red Cross Aided Child

Date: 06 10 1959
Description: Donald and Audrey Forrer posing outdoors with their 7-year-old daughter Lydia, pictured riding a bicycle. The Red Cross provided the blood transfusions tha...
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Farm House and Children's Rheumatic Fever Home

Date: 04 11 1944
Description: William and Frederike Weber farm house on Highway 12-18, near the Yahara River south of Lake Monona. The house was also the Children's Home for Rheumatic F...
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Madison's 1958 Red Measles Season

Date: 04 11 1958
Description: Madison's 1958 measles season started with Kurt Tezlaff, at right, then went to Kaye Kennan, then to Kevin Kennan and then to Wendy Kennan. In the Kennan f...
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Volunteers at St. Mary's Hospital

Date: 09 19 1950
Description: Florence Crowley, an active volunteer at St. Mary's Hospital, working on a jigsaw puzzle with Ronald Paar, age 9 of Cross Plains, and Kenneth Krall, age 4 ...
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Monona Grove Red Cross Bloodmobile Co-Chairman with Two Babies

Date: 02 19 1960
Description: Beth Gehrke, R.N., Monona village's co-chairman for the Monona Grove Red Cross Bloodmobile, is shown holding and gazing upon two three month old babies. Th...
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Madison's 1958 Red Measles Season

Date: 04 11 1958
Description: The 1958 red measles season has started in Madison. Marilyn Kelso, her son Robbie Kelso, seated on her lap, and son Tom Kelso, on the right, received gamma...
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Tiny Baby Kristin Nadings Beats Odds to Celebrate 1st Birthday

Date: 12 15 1965
Description: Kristin Nadings, daughter of Air Force Capt. and Mrs. Elvin Nadings, Sun Prairie, born prematurely at one pound, six and one half ounces on December 15, 19...
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Typical Day of a Student Nurse

Date: 01 03 1958
Description: Student nurse, Mary Jo Oxem, with seven of her classmates at the bedside of a young child. They are listening to their nursing instructor, Mrs. James Sapie...
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Nakoma Red Cross Bloodmobile

Date: 02 27 1958
Description: Two babies who would have died without donated blood meet two Nakoma school sixth-grade blood donor recruiters for an upcoming Nakoma Bloodmobile visit. Sa...
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Registration at the Health Center

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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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Waiting for Examination

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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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Philip in Bed

Date: 1924
Description: Philip George Brumder, son of Herbert Paul and Margaret Bouer Brumder, resting in a hospital crib holding a stuffed dog and a doll. His cheeks are swollen....
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Children's Ward

Date: 1920
Description: Light from a large window brightens the children's ward at Madison General Hospital. A nurse in cap and uniform stands in the left foreground. A young gi...

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