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National Business Women's Week
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Nellie A. Brown, night supervisor of nurses, represents a modern nurse as she is pushing a patient in a wheelchair. Posing as the patient is Geneva F. McKay. The enactment is an activity during National Business Women's Week which is being observed with special features in the press, radio, and television stations to show the progress which women have made through the years. The project is sponsored by the Madison Business Women's and Professional Women's organizations.
October 6, 1953
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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