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| Date: | 03 02 1934 |
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| Description: | A man exposing a negative onto a zinc plate, in preparation for making a zinc etching at Wisconsin Engraving Co., 109 S. Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 03 02 1934 |
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| Description: | A man in the camera room at the Wisconsin Engraving Company plant, 109 S. Carroll Street, is coating the wet plate negative with rubber and collodion to ma... |
| Date: | 10 19 1931 |
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| Description: | Edison kinetascope, patented in 1897, one of the first motion picture projectors invented by Thomas A. Edison. It is hand cranked and chain driven. |
| Date: | 01 31 1931 |
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| Description: | Toledo scale outside Strand Theatre, 16 E. Mifflin Street. "Your weight free" advertising the movie "Reducing." On the right is a poster for the movie "Pai... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View towards southwest of exterior of building on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Music Hall can be seen on the left on the opposite side of Ba... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across Park Street of Science Hall. University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Part of the Chemical Laboratory building is on the right, and Mus... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Science Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. View from across Park Street taken shortly after completion of new building after f... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Engraving of the first Science Hall at University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| Date: | 03 05 1952 |
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| Description: | Making plans for Cancer Education Week, members of the Wisconsin High School science club are shown with "Careless Charlie,' inspecting posters. From left ... |
| Date: | 07 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Marjorie Rapaport (Mrs. Ionel Rapaport), painter and authority on prehistoric cave art of France. She is wearing a prehistoric lion's tooth pen... |
| Date: | 07 24 1956 |
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| Description: | Arthur Roberts, Professor of Physics at Rochester University, demonstrates his other passion in life while seated at a piano. He is in Madison working on a... |
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| Description: | Non-functioning clock on the wall of Sid's kitchen. The clock consists 12 ceramic plates denoting each hour in Romain numerals and decorated with neoclassi... |
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| Description: | Buddha head, titled "Monumental Oriental Head," surrounded by trees and shrubs in Sid's background. With dimensions of 110 x 45 x 78 inches, it sits on a t... |
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| Description: | Sid's backyard with Asian-themed, concrete-cast sculptures titled "Monumental Oriental Head" of a Buddha (with dimensions of 110" x 45" x 78"), "Multi-Tier... |
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| Description: | Large Cambodian-styled, cast concrete "Monumental Oriental Head" of a Buddha painted red in Sid's backyard with heavily textured light-colored hair and top... |
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| Description: | Slightly angled front view of a large, concrete-cast "Monumental Oriental Head" of the Buddha painted red with heavily textured light-colored hair and topk... |
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| Description: | View of a large, faded concrete-cast "Monumental Oriental Head" of the Buddha with heavily textured light-colored hair and topknot. With dimensions of 110"... |
| Date: | 05 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Rolland H. Fellers, superintendent of the engraving department, checks over the new Robertson half-tone color camera at Madison Newspapers new photoengravi... |
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