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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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Clothing Demonstration

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Description: A nurse demonstrates several articles of clothing to mothers at the Health Center.
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Mother with Special Needs Children

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Description: A mother arriving at the Health Center with her special needs children.
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Native American Mother and Child

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Description: An Indian mother holds her baby in her arms as she arrives at the Health Center.
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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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Baby with Nurse and Mother

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Description: A nurse undresses a baby in preparation for a physical examination as the fashionably-dressed mother looks on.
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Lutefisk Supper

Date: 12
Description: Several women are served lutefisk at a lutefisk supper at the Dane County Home. There are plates of lefse and dinner rolls on the table.
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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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Health Class

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Description: View from behind of group of woman and children sitting in chairs and listening as an instructor points to a chart on the wall. The instructor is teaching ...
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Three Generations of Native Americans

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Description: Two women and an infant represent three generations of an Indian family. They are posing at the steps of the Health Center, where they are to attend Mother...
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Shriners Yule Party

Date: 12 18 1947
Description: A Shrine clown pointing out Santa Claus to a young girl at the Madison Shriners yule party at the Washington Orthopedic School, 545 West Dayton Street.
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Madison Woman's Club

Date: 02 10 1948
Description: Madison Woman's Club members, left to right, Mrs. John C. Sammis, Mrs. George R. Holdhusen, Mrs. Leslie F. Van Hagan, and Mrs. Edward N. Hein are shown giv...
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Wallestad-Stolle Wedding

Date: 01 15 1949
Description: The Wallestad-Stolle wedding party, left to right: Fred Woolsey, best man; Phillip Weston Wallestad, groom; Ursula Stolle, bride; and Mrs. John Wallestad, ...
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Madison Heart Fund Drive

Date: 01 24 1950
Description: Three women who will take part in the Madison Heart Fund Drive visit with Dennis Swanson of Shopiere who is a patient at the Rheumatic Fever Convalescent H...
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Mrs. Anna McFarlane with Nurses on the Newly Remodeled 4th Floor of the Lake View Sanatorium

Date: 10 01 1958
Description: Mrs. Anna McFarlane is surrounded by nurses in her bed on the newly remodeled 4th floor of the Lake View Sanatorium. Mrs. McFarlane is surrounded by attend...
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Lake View Tuberculosis Sanitarium

Date: 04 27 1931
Description: View towards patients in beds, with nurses, on the sun porch at the Lake View Tuberculosis Sanitarium.
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Examination of a Baby

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Description: Parents watch as their baby is given a physical examination by a woman at the Health Center.
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Groundbreaking Ceremony for County Hospital Wing

Date: 04 13 1959
Description: A groundbreaking ceremony is held for the new mental health wing of the Dane County Hospital and Home in Verona. Shown (L-R) are Bert Thompson, county bui...
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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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