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Child Health Poster
Poster titled "Ignorance Kills - Knowledge Saves" encouraging expectant parents to learn about infant health. Poster includes six images: little mothers class, group of mothers and babies, house-ke...
No Substitute Equals Mother's Milk
1915
Copy print of a poster promoting breast feeding for infant health. At the center is an image of a painting depicting a woman nursing a baby by Heckman & Zimmerman of Milwaukee (dated 1914).
Breast Feeding vs. Bottle Feeding
1915
Poster promoting breast feeding for infant health. The poster shows a bar graph comparing monthly infant deaths for breast fed and bottle fed babies. There is also a painting of a mother kissing he...
Baby Clinic
1921
A mother and infant in a baby carriage pose at the end of a row of wicker baby carriages in front of what is probably the Neighborhood House.
University of Wisconsin Women's Carpentry Class
1900
Women working with tools, including a saw, in the University of Wisconsin Agricultural Extension women's carpentry class.
Mother and Infant
January 1, 1952
A mother, with a mask over her mouth and nose, lying in a bed holding an infant. This is probably the first baby born in Madison in 1952, just 5 seconds after midnight to Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Temkin.
