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Patients at Wisconsin State Tuberculosis Sanitorium

Date: 1908
Description: View of a group of men dressed in winter clothes, under blankets, sitting in an outdoor porch at the Wisconsin State Tuberculosis Sanitorium in Wales. Capt...
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Madison Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 04 11 1949
Description: Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen giving some advice about pre-natal problems to Mrs. Arnold Davis, a wife of a GI student at the University of Wisconsin.
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Washington School Hearing Clinic

Date: 07 15 1948
Description: Participants in a large-scale hearing clinic held at Washington School in Madison and sponsored by the University of Wisconsin departments of speech and ed...
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State-Wide Meeting of Visiting Nurses Groups

Date: 04 10 1958
Description: The Madison Visiting Nurse Service and the Beloit Visiting Nurse Association hosted a state-wide meeting of the visiting nurse groups at the Memorial Union...
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Public Health Nursing Week

Date: 04 16 1947
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...
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Medicare Reform

Date: 1995
Description: Wisconsin congressmen (left to right) Gerald Kleczka, David R. Obey, and Thomas Barrett listening to citizen opinions on Medicare reform at a forum.
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Nancy McVee

Date: 12 22 1954
Description: Portrait of Nancy McVee, recently recovered from tuberculosis after being treated in a sanatorium for five years. During that time, she took correspondence...
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New U.W. Faculty

Date: 09 28 1954
Description: Portrait of Dr. Vernam Terrell Davis, assistant director of the division of mental hygiene at the Diognostic Center and associate professor of clinical psy...
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Health Care Concerns

Date: 1991
Description: Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin (seated, second from the right) listens while Virginia McGinley testifies at a public forum on health care. This was...
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Influenza Victims

Date: 1919
Description: Two children lying sick in bed during the Spanish Flu epidemic.
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Happy Birthday Medicare

Date: 07 29 1995
Description: At a celebration for the 30th anniversary of Medicare, Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey and guests blow out the candles on a cake.
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Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1874
Description: Hospital for the Insane.
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Tuberculosis Ward at River Pines Sanatorium

Date: 1908
Description: Snow-filled porch at the River Pines Tuberculosis Sanitorium.
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Madison Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 04 11 1949
Description: Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen checking on bedridden Richard Pedracine.
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Disease Immunization, 5th and Hadley

Date: 02 15 1935
Description: A man and a woman administer immunization shots to a line of children.
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State-Wide Meeting of Visiting Nurses Groups

Date: 04 10 1958
Description: The Madison Visiting Nurse Service and the Beloit Visiting Nurse Association hosted a state-wide meeting of the visiting nurse groups at the Memorial Union...
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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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Tuberculosis Patient

Date: 11 12 1951
Description: Jack Wick listening to a radio at his home after recovering from tuberculosis.
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Madison Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 03 11 1949
Description: Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen caring for elderly resident Clotilda Contell, who she visits regularly.
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Madison Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 04 11 1949
Description: Visiting nurse Esther Sorensen demonstrates to Amy C. Shumway the correct way to bathe her daughter, Carol Louise.

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