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James Parkin

Date: 1945
Description: James Parkin, and a woman in eyeglasses, speak with another woman in a paper gown, apparently a patient.
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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: Two women from Illinois at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic. One woman is pushing the other woman who is sitting in a wheelchair.
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Tuberculosis Patient Making Dolls

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Description: Tuberculosis patient sitting in a sanatorium bed making dolls.
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Conditions at Mendota State Hospital

Date: 02 07 1947
Description: Woman patients at the Mendota State Hospital (Mendota Mental Health Institute) sitting in rocking chairs in the sun room. One of a series of photographs ca...
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Girl in Wheelchair

Date: 09 17 1931
Description: Girl in wheelchair with teacher at Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital for Children, University of Wisconsin, 436 North Randall Street.
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Tuberculosis Patient

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Description: Young tuberculosis patient sitting up in bed. The bed is on an outdoor porch.
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Patient in Wisconsin General Hospital Hallway

Date: 02 08 1945
Description: Patient being wheeled past laundry baskets and lockers in overcrowded Wisconsin General Hospital basement hallway.
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Visiting in a Hospital

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Description: Two women in a hospital corridor. The woman on the left is sitting in a wheelchair reading a book, with one of her feet in a "boot." She is wearing a hospi...
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Mental Patients Visit the Zoo

Date: 10 20 1961
Description: Several men and women patients from Mendota State Hospital are watching the bears at the Vilas Park Zoo. A volunteer took them for the outing in her person...
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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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Children at Morningside Sanitorium

Date: 06 01 1935
Description: Group portrait of children with tuberculosis and their attendants, and with a man and woman in Salvation Army uniforms, sitting in a classroom at the Morni...
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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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Conditions at Mendota State Hospital

Date: 02 06 1947
Description: A woman patient at the Mendota State Hospital (Mendota Mental Health Institute) who is restrained in her bed by a camisole, which prevents the use of her a...
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Careers in Mental Health

Date: 04 26 1959
Description: Mrs. Lowell Brownrigg, Psychiatric Aide, is shown in Lorenz Hall at Mendota State Hospital with a patient.
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Portable X-Ray Machine

Date: 03 17 1949
Description: Interior of trailer with portable X-ray machine. Jean Gibbons, X-ray technician, is shown with unidentified woman getting an X-ray.
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Entering the Uranium Tunnel

Date: 1954
Description: Woman on crutches entering the front office of the uranium tunnel to receive a uranium treatment. Several men sitting in front of the storefront on benches...
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Nurses at Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital

Date: 11 06 1947
Description: Two nurses feeding infants at the Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital, 1415 Linden Drive.
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Eddie Paulus

Date: 10 27 1954
Description: Eddie Paulus, outfielder for the Plain, Wisconsin baseball team, lies in a hospital bed at St. Mary's Hospital in Madison after a collision with a catcher ...
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Wisconsin General Hospital X-ray Procedure

Date: 05 26 1947
Description: State of Wisconsin General Hospital, at 1300 University Avenue. View showing chest X-ray equipment with a patient in position for the procedure, and a tech...
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Theta Sigma Phi Alumnae Holiday Book Fair

Date: 11 19 1951
Description: Two people visit with a hospitalized veteran interested in writing who may possibly benefit from the proceeds of the "Holiday Book Sale" sponsored by Theta...

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