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Hearing Screening Tests at Lincoln School

Date: 02 04 1961
Description: Seven-year-old Billy Roughton, wearing earphones, having his hearing tested by Barbara Dahle, left, a public health nurse with the Madison Health Departmen...
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University of Wisconsin Medical School Student's Life

Date: 04 17 1958
Description: David Ottenson, a third-year medical student from Superior, performing a physical exam on a patient.
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Lincoln School, Vision Examinations

Date: 11 04 1931
Description: School children involved in vision tests at Lincoln School.
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Emerson School Eye Testing

Date: 02 11 1935
Description: Woman pointing at chart and one child showing which way the E is pointing for Emerson School eye examinations. A piano is in the background.
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Emerson School Eye Testing

Date: 02 11 1935
Description: Children are sitting in chairs with a patch over one eye writing down what they see at Emerson School eye testing.
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Public Health Clinic, Town of Lake

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Description: Two men are checking children with stethoscopes, another man is looking into a girl's mouth, and two women are writing in notepads. Other women and many ch...
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First Year of School for a Cambridge Farm Girl

Date: 08 16 1957
Description: Stoughton physician Dr. Rodney K. Peterson checking the ear of Barbara Notstad during a pre-school medical examination while her mother is looking on. Barb...
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Central High School Football Weigh-In and Physical Examinations

Date: 08 1955
Description: Coach Harold (Gus) Pollock (left) adjusting the counter weights on the scale being used by Ron Morrick. Other returning veteran players shown are Steve Sch...
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East High School Football Medical Examinations

Date: 08 25 1955
Description: Dr. Donald Simley examines the teeth and tongue of Jon Rockstad as three other returning lettermen look on. In the back row are John Davidson, John Hill an...
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West High School Football Physicals

Date: 08 1955
Description: Madison West High School football player, Dave Koepcke (seated), is getting his blood pressure checked by Dr. William Walter, who is using a stethoscope du...
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Dr. Issaris Examining Children in India

Date: 1962
Description: Dr. P.C. Issaris of Greece examines the spleen of a child in India. Men and other children stand around them watching.
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Examination of a Baby

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Description: Parents watch as their baby is given a physical examination by a woman at the Health Center.
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Waiting for Examination

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Description: Mothers sit with their babies in their arms as they wait for nurses to examine the infants. Infant clothing is hanging on a clothesline strung along the ba...
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Baby with Nurse and Mother

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Description: A nurse undresses a baby in preparation for a physical examination as the fashionably-dressed mother looks on.
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Physical Examination

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Description: A nurse or doctor gives an infant a physical examination at the Health Center as the baby's mother looks on.
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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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Vision Testing

Date: 06 25 1950
Description: Doug Onsager, left, and Nancy Letlebo examine the vision tester used in the drivers' education course for Madison high school students.
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Blind Ph.D. Candidate with Hearing Test Equipment

Date: 05 09 1952
Description: "With her roommate Helen Blohm (right) playing the role of the subject, Mary Louise Lane (left) checks her hearing with an audiometer. Miss Lane, blind co-...
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"Well Baby" Clinic

Date: 06 01 1950
Description: Dr. Ruth Foster, left, is shown examaning baby Janet Lee Sommerville while assisted by Nurse H. Anita Anderson as the mother, Mrs. Robert Somerville, is lo...
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Chest X-Ray

Date: 09 10 1946
Description: A woman, bare from the waist up, standing at the x-ray machine as she is receiving a chest x-ray taken by an attendant at the controls at the Wisconsin Gen...

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