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Patient in Wisconsin General Hospital Hallway

Date: 02 08 1945
Description: Patient being wheeled past laundry baskets and lockers in overcrowded Wisconsin General Hospital basement hallway.
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Ground-Breaking Ceremony for Addition to Wisconsin General Hospital

Date: 08 09 1949
Description: State and University of Wisconsin officials join in ground-breaking ceremonies for additions to the Wisconsin General hospital. left to right: Governor Osc...
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Wisconsin State Student Nurses' Association

Date: 03 19 1952
Description: Shown are six members of the Wisconsin State Student Nurses' association at the University of Wisconsin. From left to right, they are Marilyn Hall, Lexy Ne...
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Wisconsin Motor Vehicle Department Banquet

Date: 02 13 1958
Description: Gwen Hendricks, Vivian Reynolds, Eldon Schimming, and Hazel Lenz chat at the Wisconsin Motor Vehicle Department Banquet.
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Wisconsin Hospital for the Insane Staff Members

Date: 1890
Description: Staff members of the Wisconsin Hospital for the Insane pose at the hospital doors. Mendota Mental Health Institute
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 01 07 1954
Description: Red Cross blood drive at the Wisconsin Telephone Company. Nurses are attending to employees, who are volunteering to donate blood.
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University of Wisconsin Medical School Program

Date: 06 27 1949
Description: University of Wisconsin Medical school and the State Department of Public Welfare have started a program of mutual-help. Dr. Walter J. Urben, superintenden...
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Wisconsin Telephone Operators with Christmas Baskets

Date: 12 21 1956
Description: Wisconsin Telephone Company operators are shown with Christmas baskets of food to be delivered to the needy. Left to right: Barbara Gardner, Ione Wall, Van...
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Hydro-therapy Department at Wisconsin Memorial Hospital

Date: 03 04 1932
Description: Military veterans receive therapy in hot water tubs, with George Gardner, director of the hydro-therapy department, Wisconsin Memorial Hospital on Farwell ...
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Teen Summer Jobs

Date: 08 09 1950
Description: Sherwyn Woods, 1950 Wisconsin High School graduate, is shown spending his third consecutive summer as an employee of the Rennebohm Drug Company.
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Wisconsin Motor Vehicle Department Banquet

Date: 02 13 1958
Description: In attendance at the Wisconsin Motor Vehicle Department Banquet are (seated in the first row): Ethel Connors, H L. Stone, and Marie Howard. Standing in bac...
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Teen Summer Jobs

Date: 08 09 1950
Description: Peggy Huiskamp, soon to be a Wisconsin High School senior, holds a tray of cookies at her summer job at Langdon's Home Bakery and Delicatessen on State Str...
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Home Economics Day

Date: 03 20 1957
Description: Robert Kopp demonstrates meat cutting to Shirley Walberg (intern), Janice Hinze (assistant), and Ruth Dickie (chief dietician) during the hospital dietetic...
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Wiscconsin Motor Vehicle Department Banquet

Date: 02 13 1958
Description: Group portrait of Wisconsin Motor Vehicle Department employees. They include, from left to right: Evelyn Alsheimer (Waunakee), Joan Waterwirth (Fall River)...
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Dane County Medical Assistants' Bosses Night

Date: 02 05 1959
Description: Violet Owen (president of the Wisconsin Medical Assistants group) is shown at left chatting with Lois Pluckhan (secretary of the American Association of Me...
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Handicraft Sales at Wisconsin Memorial Hospital

Date: 03 04 1932
Description: Handicrafts, including wicker furniture and rugs on display at the sales display room in Wisconsin Memorial Hospital, on Farwell Point, adjoining Mendota M...
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Wisconsin Motor Vehicle Department Banquet

Date: 02 13 1958
Description: Commissioner Melvin Larson presents honorary certificates for service to Catherine Griffith (five years) and Malitta Siebel (21 years).
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We Saw You at Dietetic Group's Tea

Date: 04 18 1958
Description: Charter members of the Wisconsin Dietetic Association were honored at a tea held at the intern residence hall of University hospitals. Three who have worke...
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Theresa EMTs

Date: 05 1991
Description: "Theresa EMTs."
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Christmas is Coming

Date: 11 1976
Description: A city worker putting up holiday decorations on a light pole using a telescopic forklift.

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