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Harriet Douglas Whetten

Date: 1860
Description: Harriet Douglas Whetten (b.1822). Whetten was a volunteer nurse during the Civil War. She served on hospital ships out of New York and Philadelphia from 18...
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Sterile Solution Room

Date: 01 28 1947
Description: Pharmacist C. Jeffers and Nurse Juanita Holyle prepare sterile solution in bottles at Scott & Smith Hospital.
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Operating Room

Date: 1911
Description: Doctors and nurses surround a patient on a gurney in an operating room at Stobhill General Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland.
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Dr. Joseph Schneider, Famous Eye Surgeon

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Description: Dr. Joseph Schneider performs surgery on the eye of a man laying on a gurney, with assistance from a nun nurse and another man.
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Pima Agency Building

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Description: Nurses on the front porch of a Pima Agency building, possibly a hospital.
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School Hospital

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Description: A school hospital at the Warm Springs Agency in Oregon, with Mrs. Smith, the nurse, standing in front.
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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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Public Health Physicians, Nurse, and Four Children

Date: 1926
Description: Four siblings await their physical examination. Three of the children are triplets. In the background are the public health nurse and examining physician.
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Nurse Instructs Mothers about Shoes

Date: 1937
Description: A nurse instructs two mothers about baby shoes.
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Nurse and Seated Mothers with Infants

Date: 1937
Description: Nurse talking to two seated mothers; each with infant in their lap.
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Nurse and Two Pregnant Mothers

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Description: A nurse is talking to two pregnant mothers.
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Two Nurses Outside Colby Health Center

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Description: Two nurses stand outside the Colby Health Center, a former dental office. This was the first county health center, in a village of 700 population.
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Sabin Oral Vaccine

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Description: A nurse gives children the sabin oral vaccine.
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Rosa Katz in her Nurse's Uniform

Date: 1980
Description: Portrait of Rosa Katz in her nurse's uniform at Mercy Medical Center.
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Feeding Children Cod Liver Oil

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Description: A woman giving Highlander nursery school children cod liver oil.
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Methodist Hospital Sun Roof

Date: 1930
Description: Sunroof of the Methodist Hospital, showing patients, nurses, and a view of Lake Monona in the background.
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Hospital Room

Date: 1930
Description: Posed view of a patient room in the recently constructed Methodist Hospital, showing a nurse on the telephone near a bed, and a doctor and elderly patient ...
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Nurses' Station

Date: 1930
Description: Posed view of a nurses' station in the recently-constructed Methodist Hospital
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North Vietnamese Children

Date: 12 12 1965
Description: Nurse caring for two North Vietnamese children who were wounded by U.S. bombing. This official North Vietnamese photograph was released about June 1, 1966,...
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Nurses' Dormitory

Date: 1940
Description: View across street of dormitory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

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