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Collection Summary
Collection: 00080 - Bismarck Tribune Photograph Collection
Series:
Folder: 0049
Item: 02162
Title: A nursing sister at Bismarck's St. Alexius Hospital monitors a young female patient in an oxygen tent
Date: 04/1934
Creator:
Inscription/Marks: On the back: 0080-Box 2-file 23-02 is replaced with 00080-0049-02162, and "Oxygen tent in use", 4-34.
Summary: A nursing sister dressed in white habit stands beside the bed of her young female patient, who is visible through the plastic of the oxygen tent which encloses her torso and head. The tank of oxygen is beside the hospital bed in the old fashioned room of the St. Alexius Hospital in Bismarck, North Dakota. The image seems to be from April 1934. The oxygen tent was invented in 1921, though the use of oxygen in similar devices was begun in 1900.
Red ID: PH_I_145167 Image ID: 106204 Image Notes: 00080-box02-folder23-02

Collection: 00080 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: Bismarck Tribune Photograph Collection
Date: Circa 1930-1980

Summary: Images used in the Bismarck Tribune newspapers from the 1930s-1970s.

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