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Superintendents of State Welfare Institutions
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Group portrait of 13 superintendents of state welfare institutions with A.W. Bayley (extreme right, standing), director of the Wisconsin Deptartment of Public Welfare. Sitting, left to right: Dr. M.K. Green, head of Mendota State Hospital; B.P. Kraemer, Green Bay State Reformatory; T.R. Uthus, Waukesha Industrial School for Boys; Ethel Brubaker, Oregon Industrial School for Girls; Mrs. Marcia Simpson, Taycheedah Prison and Industrial Home for Women; standing, left to right: Dr. A.R. Remley, Waupun Central State Hospital; Dr. H.R. Hunter, Chippewa Falls Northern Colony and Training School; Dr. C.C. Atherton, Union Grove Southern Colony and Training School; Dr. Byron J. Hughes, Winnebago State Hospital; Warden Luke F. Murphy, Waupun State Prison; C.D. Lehman, Sparta State Public School; E.F. Costigan, Milwaukee Workshop for the Blind; Clarence T. Graham, Hayward State Transient Camp.
October 23, 1944
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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University of Wisconsin Medical School Program
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STATE HIGHWAY 49, WAUPUN STATE FARM
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Located in Chester, Dodge County
Wisconsin Diagnostic Center
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Dedication of the Wisconsin Diagnostic Center for the intensive study of mentally and emotionally disturbed young people, referred to it by the state Dept. of Public Welfare. The building was locat...
Dr. Walter J. Urben
January 28, 1948
Portrait of Dr. Walter J. Urben, newly appointed superintendent of Mendota State hospital, who started work on Sunday Feb. 1st 1948. He was previously director of the division of mental hygiene of ...
