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Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association Exhibit

Date: 1925
Description: Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association exhibit advertised in the storefront of a building in New London, Wisconsin. Two women are looking through the wind...
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Bathing Baby in Tub

Date: 1937
Description: Dr. Hunter of the Wisconsin Board of Health bathes a baby in a tub of water.
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Mobile X-Ray Trailer

Date: 1945
Description: Wisconsin State Board of Health Tuberculosis Survey bus with staff posing in front.
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American Cancer Society Meeting

Date: 02 19 1947
Description: Men and women working for control of cancer attend a meeting of the American Cancer Society.
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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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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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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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Photo Enactors from the Dane County Association for Mental Health

Date: 04 16 1957
Description: Staged scenario of a lonely and isolated elderly woman sitting in a rocking chair by a fireplace and spinning wheel. "Aunt Jennie" is portrayed by Margueri...
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Anti-Tuberculosis Association Poster

Date: 1928
Description: Poster produced by the Anti-Tuberculosis Association showing a young man and woman walking together with books under their arms. Includes the text "Tubercu...
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Polio Short Course

Date: 06 29 1948
Description: Wisconsin physicians seated in a classroom while attending the second annual polio short course. The course is co-sponsored by the Wisconsin Medical School...
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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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Weighing and Measuring Campaign, Lincoln School

Date: 1918
Description: Seven women in white uniforms measuring five children, including one infant. Caption reads: "Lincoln School, Madison, Wis. Weighing and Measuring Campaign ...
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Nurse Lucille Graves

Date: 04 16 1947
Description: Lucille Graves, Dane County's supervisor of public health nursing.
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Photo Enactors from the Dane County Association for Mental Health

Date: 04 16 1957
Description: Staged work environment for employees in an industrial setting. In the foreground a man wearing work coveralls is standing at a lathe on a plant floor. Beh...
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Tuberculosis Patients

Date: 10 12 1951
Description: Isa Shower, a tuberculosis patient at Lake View Sanatorium, reads while lying in bed.
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Physical Fitness Week

Date: 05 07 1961
Description: John Coyne takes part in a gymnastics demonstration at Turner Hall as part of Physical Fitness Week.
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Child Receiving Vaccine

Date: 1955
Description: Children in line for vaccine shot. The child in the foreground is being prepared for the injection, most likely the polio vaccine.
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Polio Shot Time

Date: 11 15 1955
Description: All seven siblings in the Marnell family lining up for their polio inoculations.
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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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One of Madison's Prominent Ladies

Date: 05 07 1957
Description: Ida Kittleson in her Spaight Street home. She has been active in several organizations, including the Humane Society, Anti-Tuberculosis Association, Kiddie...

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