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| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane designed by Stephen V. Shipman (Mendota Mental Health Institute). |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | The entrance of the Northern Wisconsin Hospital for the Insane. Automobiles are parked on the road in front. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | View from the path leading to the entrance of the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute). |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Sinks, tubs, and cylindrical washing machines on pulleys make up the laundry facilities at the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Heal... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Freshly-baked loaves of bread are stacked on tables with bowls and trays of other food items in the large kitchen at the Wisconsin State Hospital for the I... |
| Date: | 06 28 1962 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a historically-restored hallway in the Mendota Mental Health Institute (Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane). |
| Date: | 08 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Two students making a bed at the Mendota State Hospital during their University of Wisconsin program to learn the inside workings of a mental institution. ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A game room with chairs, a pool table, a rack for cue sticks, and a table with checker board and deck of cards is available for patients' recreation at the... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Front view of the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane (Mendota Mental Health Institute), a large stone building five stories high with a porthole windo... |
| Date: | 08 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Two university students helping serve dinner to patients at Mendota State Hospital. They are John LeSeur from Cornell University on the left, and Roy Klett... |
| Date: | 03 04 1932 |
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| Description: | Handicrafts, including wicker furniture and rugs on display at the sales display room in Wisconsin Memorial Hospital, on Farwell Point, adjoining Mendota M... |
| Date: | 09 27 1950 |
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| Description: | Officers of the Madison unit of the Wisconsin Council for Mentally Retarded Children, seated around a table. Left to right: Mrs. E.K. (Flora) Steul, public... |
| Date: | 07 16 1960 |
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| Description: | Several participants tell the early history of Mendota State Hospital at the centennial pageant. They are, left to right: Cecilia Shedleski, a nurse at the... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Northern Hospital for the Insane. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Six beds in the sleeping quarters of the Northern Hospital for the Insane. |
| Date: | 05 16 1955 |
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| Description: | The men who planned the three-meeting seminar on ministry and mental health gather at the University YMCA in Madison. At left is Walter W. Argow, Madison, ... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | The kitchen in the Northern Hospital for the Insane. Institutional cooking equipment and various supplies are visible. |
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