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Nurse with Native Americans

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Description: A nurse poses on steps with a Native American mother and four children.
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Nurse Weighing Baby

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Description: A nurse weighing a baby in a scale on the floor.
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Elizabeth Hull and Elizabeth Nisbet

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Description: Elizabeth Hull and Elizabeth Nisbet on Madeline Island.
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Exhibit for Pregnant Women

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Description: A nurse is showing expectant mothers an exhibit. including maternity clothes. Posters on health are displayed on the wall behind them.
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Health Class

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Description: A nurse points to charts while teaching maternal and infant health to a small class of mothers who have children on their laps.
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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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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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Nurse with Native American Girl

Date: 10 1936
Description: A nurse poses outdoors holding a Native American girl at the Lac du Flambeau Indian reservation.
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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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Class for Mothers

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Description: A health care worker is instructing two mothers how to select shoes and stockings for their children. On the wall is a poster on clothing and shoes.
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Two Women Posing for Portrait

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Description: Three-quarter length portrait of two women standing and wearing dark dresses and hats. The woman on the left stands sideways, looking at the other woman, a...
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Lydia C. Sawyer

Date: 1837
Description: Hollow-cut silhouette of Lydia C. Sawyer, who died Feb. 11, 1837 at age 22. Portrait faces right (proper left), with hair up, and a fringed collar.
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Man on Ladder Picking Apples

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Description: A man standing high on a ladder is picking apples from trees, and handing them down to a woman standing on the ground. There is a barrel full of applies at...

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