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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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Dane County Asylum for the Criminally Insane

Date: 1895
Description: Dane County Asylum for the Criminally Insane. In 1880 it became a part of the county hospital system, which was set up to provide longer term care to peopl...
Photograph

Edwin Sumner

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Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Edwin Sumner, seated, a leading Madison pharmacist who was in partnership with his father-in-law, Philo Dunning.
Photograph

Dr. Joseph Hobbins

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Description: Portrait of Dr. Joseph Hobbins, Jr. (1816-1894), of Madison, Wisconsin, copied from a lost daguerreotype. Dr. Hobbins was an English-born and educated phy...
Postcard

Surgical Hospital, Stoughton, Wisconsin

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view of the hospital, with several people standing on and around the front porch. Caption reads: "Stoughton Surgical Hospital, Stoughton, Wis."
Postcard

Stoughton Hospital and Park

Date: 1910
Description: Park view featuring two children and their nurse or nanny in the foreground and an inset of the hospital in the upper left corner. Caption reads: "Stoughto...
Postcard

Stoughton Hospital

Date: 1910
Description: View of the outdoor landscape as seen from a window in the Stoughton Hospital, along with an inset of the building in the upper left corner. Caption reads:...
Painting

Sturgeon Bay Hospital

Date: 1910
Description: The Sturgeon Bay Hospital.
Photograph

Chandler B. Chapman

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Description: Ninth plate daguerreotype portrait of Dr. Chandler B. Chapman of Madison, quarter length facing front with torso facing right. Dr. Chapman served as a reg...
Book or Pamphlet

Chapman's Medical School Brochure

Date: 1852
Description: Circular and catalogue advertising Dr. Chandler B. Chapman's "Practical School for Anatomy and Surgery." Madison, 1852.
Book or Pamphlet

Madison Water Cure Advertisement

Date: 1858
Description: Advertisement for the Madison Water Cure and Electro-Hydrogienic Institute, formerly the Lakeside Water-Cure.
Postcard

Marinette County Insane Asylum

Date: 1917
Description: View down unpaved road toward the front of the asylum. Caption reads: "Marinette County Insane Asylum, Marinette, Wis."
Photograph

Lakeside Station

Date: 1890
Description: Lakeside station near "Water Cure." The Lakeside Water Cure, in today's Olin Park on the south side of Lake Monona, was completed in August 1855. Patient...
Postcard

River Pines Sanatorium

Date: 1908
Description: Exterior view of the clubhouse at River Pines Sanatorium. Two people are posing on the porch. Caption reads: "Club House, River Pines Sanatorium, Stevens P...
Postcard

River Pines Sanatorium

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Description: Exterior view of River Pines Sanatorium.
Postcard

St. Joseph's Hospital

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Description: View across lawn towards St. Joseph's Hospital. Caption reads: "St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield, Wis."
Postcard

St. Joseph's Hospital

Date: 1910
Description: St. Joseph's Hospital. Caption reads: "St. Joseph's Hospital Marshfield, Wis."
Postcard

St. Joseph's Hospital

Date: 1915
Description: View across lawn towards the hospital. Caption reads: "St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield, Wis."
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Wood County Asylum

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Description: The Wood County Asylum.

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