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Students Conducting Scientific Research

Date: 1900
Description: Downer College students working in a laboratory in which a human skeleton, a frog, a bat and stuffed birds are displayed.
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Stroboscopic Photography Technique

Date: 04 1950
Description: A girl on a swing is the subject of photographers demonstrating a technique using high speed flash.
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Man with Wings

Date: 1909
Description: An unidentified man demonstrates his unsuccessful bird wing-like mechanism, which was part of an experiment in aviation.
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Circus Performers Gather to View Eclipse

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Description: Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey circus performers gathered in front of a circus tent to view a solar eclipse. Some are wearing protective eyeglasses.
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Smokey Bear with School Children

Date: 1954
Description: A man dressed in a Smokey Bear costume is standing with two Milwaukee school children. A young girl is sitting at a desk, and a boy is standing and holding...
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Atomic Energy

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Description: Students and teacher in classroom demonstrating an experiment with atomic energy.
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Atomic Plant Demonstration

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Description: Elevated view of a demonstration of a nuclear reactor driven energy plant.
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Chemistry Experiment

Date: 05 25 1951
Description: Chemistry experiment by two men being conducted with steam rising from equipment.
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Physics Lab

Date: 1901
Description: Students and teacher in physics lab at Stevens Point Normal School, which would later become the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
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Anatomy Lab

Date: 1900
Description: Cadavers are laid out on gurneys in a sky-lit anatomy lab at Rush Medical College.
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Natural History Exhibit

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Description: A young man poses in front of a Natural History exhibit which includes a glass case of shells, butterflies and moths mounted on the wall. He donated his co...
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Specimen Museum

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Description: A man seated in front of specimen drawers examines several varieties of moths and butterflies. On top of the cases are several taxidermy mounts including o...
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Carhart Automobile

Date: 1873
Description: Automobile made by J. Wesley Carhart, Methodist minister of Racine, later of Oshkosh, Maryland and Texas. The vehicle was dismantled and the engine used to...
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Rhinelander Butcher Shop

Date: 1911
Description: Interior view of a butcher shop, with a male butcher sharpening a knife behind a counter lined with cuts of meat, sausages and a scale. Behind the counter ...
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Boscobel Meat Market

Date: 1905
Description: A man and a woman stand on the customer side of the counters. Phil Hof stands with a large knife behind a tabled covered with meat, while Sam and Herman Ho...
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Poultry Science

Date: 1925
Description: Group of ten people, both men and women, observing a researcher working in a laboratory with young chickens in a wire cage beneath a lamp. The researcher w...
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Dairy Barn Interior

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Description: A barn interior showing a basket on a scale next to a silage feeding schedule on the wall. Shovels lean against the walls.
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Assaying Gold in Alaska

Date: 1901
Description: Dr. A.N. Kittelsen (left) seated at the table, his brother Bernhardt Kittelsen (right) seated on a fur covered bed, both of Stoughton, Wis. and Norman Torr...
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Oscar Mayer Company Laboratory

Date: 1938
Description: Two man and one woman are working in the laboratory of the Oscar Mayer Company plant. In the foreground the woman is writing in a book at a desk with a tel...
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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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