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Building No. 4, State Home

Date: 1910
Description: Building No. 4, then known as the Wisconsin House for the Feeble-Minded. Caption reads: "Building No. 4, State Home, Chippewa Falls, Wis."
Photograph

Madison General Hospital Addition

Date: 07 14 1952
Description: View of the new operating room in the Madison General Hospital addition, showing the lights and equipment.
Photograph

Madison General Hospital Operating Room

Date: 05 13 1953
Description: View of a surgical procedure in process at Madison General Hospital. Student nurses are observing from a glassed-in gallery at the rear.
Photograph

Students Tour Hospital Delivery Room

Date: 01 23 1968
Description: Students wearing face masks and sterile gowns visit the delivery room at Doctors Hospital as part of a family living class. The student on the right who is...
Book or Pamphlet

Holy Family Hospital, Operating Room

Date: 1901
Description: View of the brightly lit, tiled floor operating room. Cast-iron furniture includes an operating table, with a slanted central opening for drainage of fluid...
Photograph

Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: The operating room at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic.
Photograph

Typical Day of a Student Nurse

Date: 01 03 1958
Description: Student nurse, Mary Jo Oxem (left) in surgical garb assisting a surgeon in an operating room. As one of the 125 students of St. Mary's School of Nursing, s...
Photograph

Wisconsin State Journal Reporter John Newhouse

Date: 07 31 1958
Description: Wisconsin State Journal reporter John Newhouse is shown in Wisconsin General Hospital operating room garb as he reports on a new drug developed in W...
Photograph

Urea used for Brain Surgery at University Hospital

Date: 07 31 1958
Description: A brain surgery operation is in progress at the University of Wisconsin Hospital. A urea and inert sugar solution developed at the University is used to lo...

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