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Women of the Red Cross

Date: 1918
Description: Women of the Dunn County Chapter of the American Red Cross posed with sewing machines in the Stout Institute Building.
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Rocking Newborns

Date: 1950
Description: Women feed and rock newborn babies in a neonatal hospital unit.
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Children and Nurses in front of Hospital

Date: 1935
Description: Crowd of women, babies, boys, girls, and nurses standing in front of the Hospital, which was also known as the Wilmarth Masion. Some of the women are weari...
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Children and Nurses in front of Hospital

Date: 1935
Description: Crowd of women, babies, boys, girls, and nurses standing in front of the Hospital, which was also known as the Wilmarth Mansion. Some of the women are wear...
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Theta Mead in Wagon

Date: 1922
Description: Theta Mead in a horse-drawn wagon along with another woman and three children.
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First State Conference of Public Health Nurses

Date: 1920
Description: Group portrait taken on the stairs of the Wisconsin State Capitol of men and women attending the State Conference of Public Health Nurses. Most of the wome...
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Nurses

Date: 1900
Description: Eight nurses in uniform posing in front of a building (probably their workplace). Some of the women are holding a bedframe, pail, and a broom, and other it...
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Mobile Testing for Tuberculosis

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Description: Native American women and children wait in line by a bus to be tested for tuberculosis by the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association. A sign points the wa...
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Professional Women in Madison

Date: 01 29 1957
Description: Portrait of Margery MacLachlan, Director of U.W. School of Nursing.
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Participant in Nursing Program for Married Women

Date: 05 11 1965
Description: Donna Osness typing a paper for her husband, Wayne, foreground, who is a University of Wisconsin Ph.D student. One of a series of images about Donna, a mot...
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Graduate of the St. Mary's School of Nursing

Date: 06 26 1948
Description: Group portrait of twenty-one young women who have just received their diplomas, marking their completion of a three-year basic course in nursing at St. Mar...
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Nurse in front of Refrigerator

Date: 04 16 1935
Description: A nurse in uniform standing in front of an open refrigerator, checking vials of medicines at the Wisconsin General Hospital.
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Army Nurse Killed in Action

Date: 1944
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Ellen G. Ainsworth, published in the Milwaukee Sentinel. She was an Army nurse killed in action on February 16th, 194...
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Madison General Hospital School of Nursing Graduation

Date: 09 11 1953
Description: Class portrait of 26 women who graduated from the Madison General Hospital School of Nursing.
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Participant in Nursing Program for Married Women

Date: 05 11 1965
Description: Donna Osness giving medication to Louise Yeazel, a patient at Madison General Hospital. One of a series of images about Donna, a mother of five children, w...
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Baby Clinic and Rest Tent, Dane County Fair

Date: 08 1918
Description: Three women in nurse's uniforms are standing in a tent, where several children and women are seated on chairs. Displays of cribs, cloths (possibly diapers)...
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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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Participants in Nursing Program for Married Women

Date: 05 11 1965
Description: Donna Osness, third from right, listens to a lecture with classmates. Right to left: Helen Nassen, Lois Schneckloth, Lodi; and Nancy Schindler, New Glarus;...
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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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4th Liberty Loan Parade

Date: 09 28 1918
Description: A group of women are marching up a street in a parade. Some are carrying signs, and one woman is carrying an American flag. The signs include: "WOMAN'S COM...

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