Title: Wisconsin. Public Health Nursing Section: Indian Records
Inclusive Dates: 1926-1962 (bulk 1926-1940)

Creator:

• Wisconsin. Public Health Nursing Section

Call Number: Series 2207; PH 3947

Quantity: 0.6 cubic feet (2 archives boxes), 78 photographs, 25 negatives, and 1 transparency

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records, mainly 1926-1940, including correspondence with the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs, state Board of Health personnel, county health committees, and public health nurses working among American Indians in Wisconsin. Included are evaluations of nursing services as well as reports concerning health services, diseases and nutritional problems, and social and living conditions among American Indians. There is a small amount of material on the use of the drug peyote. The photographs show the activities of the section, including images of patients, doctors, and nurses.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ser02207

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Chapter 354, Laws of Wisconsin (1925), allocated state funds for public health work among the American Indian population. This action was taken in recognition of the fact that medical and nursing facilities available through the federal government could not provide American Indians with adequate care due to the high incidence of tuberculosis, trachoma, and other diseases. Federal statutes and regulations give the the state the authority to extend jurisdiction into reservations for the purpose of making inspection of health and educational conditions and enforcing sanitation and quarantine regulations. This is one of the few instances in which the state government has jurisdiction in American Indian territory.

Series 2207 Box   1 Folder   1	Annual reports, 1926-1944
Box   1 Folder   2	Ashland and Bayfield Counties, 1933-1961
Box   1 Folder   3	Clippings, 1932-1951
Box   1 Folder   4	Conference materials, 1929-1962
Box   1 Folder   5	Forest and Vilas Counties, 1931-1960
Box   1 Folder   6	Great Lakes Indian Agency, 1933-1952
Box   1 Folder   7	Maps: Territories of Indian Service nurses, 1926-1948
Box   1 Folder   8	Menominee and Shawano, Reservation and County, 1942-1962
Box   1 Folder   9	Personnel evaluations of Indian Service nurses, 1932-1948
Box   1 Folder   10	Peyote, 1934-1940
PH 3947	Photographs, negatives, and transparency Note: The following photographers and subjects are cited in PH 3947: Photographer/Subject Location Indian Communities Elma Backstrom Ashland, 1937-circa 1948 Chippewa (Ojibwe) Sadie Engesether Hayward, 1938-circa 1942 Chippewa (Ojibwe) Nellie McLaughlin Ashland, 1935-1937 Tomah, 1938-1942 Chippewa (Ojibwe) Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) and Oneida Helen Reinbach Black River Falls, 1935-1937 Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Dr. A.E. Winter Tomah Agency, circa 1936-1942 Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) and Oneida
Folder   1a-c	Odanah Women's Club, 1933
Folder   2	Mr. And Mrs. Charles Shogay boiling maple sugar
Folder   3	Baby Nathaniel Dick and mother
Folder   4	Sammy and Junior Shegonee
Folder   5	Viena and Marlene Smith
Folder   6	Physicians, Drs. Adams and Middleton, nurses, Mrs. Brink and Mrs. Williams
Folder   7	Betty Playhouse, age 94, Holyah, Minnesota, 1936 January
Folder   8	Doctor paying a visit at reservation home
Folder   9a-c	Indian women canning class, 1933 July
Folder   10	Menominee Agency meeting, circa 1942
Folder   11a-b	Scenery near Neilsville, Wisconsin
Folder   12	Taking patient to Pine An, last stages, Red Cliff
Folder   13	Mrs. Wabshagaw in wheelchair
Folder   14a-b	Children from Odana parochial school, having eye correction at Dodd Clinic, Ashland, Wisconsin
Folder   15a-i	Vaccination and immunization clinics
Folder   16a-b	Dr. Weisber and children at Dells Dane Clinic
Folder   17a-h	Winnebago [Ho-Chunk] family, agency doctor
Folder   18a-m	Doctor, nurses, staff and family members
Folder   19a-c	Nurses, group photographs
Folder   20a-b	Dominican, priest and friends
Folder   21a-d	Life and work on the reservation
Folder   22a-c	Patients at Clinics in Wisconsin
Folder   23a-d	Oneida?, unidentified
Folder   24a-e	Nuns
Folder   25	Garden
Folder   26a-d	Outdoor group activities
Series 2207 Box   1 Folder   11	Policies for Indian nursing services, 1957
Box   1 Folder   12	Rhinelander, District 8 Advisory Nurse, 1955-1959
Box   1 Folder   13	Sawyer County, 1951-1961
Box   1 Folder   14	Staffing, 1919-1942
Box   1 Folder   15	Statistical reports on birth, death, disease, 1932-1941
Box   1 Folder   16	Surveys: Preliminary plans for nursing work, 1930-1940
Box   2 Folder   1	Tomah Indian agency, 1932-1948
Box   2 Folder   2	Tuberculosis studies, 1926-1944
	U.S. Department of Interior
Box   2 Folder   3	Chicago and Washington, D.C., 1932-1945
Box   2 Folder   4	Minneapolis, 1932-1945
Box   2 Folder   5	Women's groups, 1932-1939