Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections

Searching for

Refine by

Results 1-15 of 15

Photograph

Ed Gein at State Crime Lab

Date: 11 19 1957
Description: Ed Gein (1906-1984) signing paperwork at the state crime lab where he was brought for lie detector and other tests or at the city jail where he was held ov...
Photograph

Donald C. Slichter, President Of Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company

Date: 06 03 1961
Description: Donald C. Slichter, president of the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company, received the "Alumnus of the Year" award of the Wisconsin Alumni Associati...
Photograph

United Community Chest Group Tours McArdle Laboratory at U.W. Hospitals

Date: 04 29 1964
Description: One of four United Community Chest (United Way) panel groups tours the McArdle Laboratory at the U.W. Hospitals to see how United Givers funds are used by ...
Photograph

Marion Roberts, Developer of Foamalum

Date: 08 05 1964
Description: Marion Roberts, a native of Texas, set up the Foamalum Research Laboratory on Fish Hatchery Road. The product was developed in the Bjorksten Research Cente...
Photograph

New Buildings on the University of Wisconsin Campus

Date: 09 03 1964
Description: One of the new buildings is the $4.3 million Russell Laboratories on Linden Drive. It houses the departments of entomology, plant pathology, forestry and w...
Photograph

Biology Teaching Program

Date: 01 12 1965
Description: Charles Sommers, left, biology teacher at Cherokee Heights school is showing other biology teachers an experiment he found useful in his classes. The Madis...
Photograph

Madison Newspapers New Photoengraving Lab

Date: 05 21 1957
Description: Rolland H. Fellers, superintendent of the engraving department, checks over the new Robertson half-tone color camera at Madison Newspapers new photoengravi...
Photograph

University of WisconsinHydrobiology Laboratory Research

Date: 05 29 1957
Description: Dr. Theodore Schreiner, a research assistant from Tuebingen, West Germany (right), holds a cage while Laboratory Director Professor Arthur D. Hasler record...
Photograph

U.W. Hydrobiology Laboratory Research

Date: 05 29 1957
Description: Student John Hunter demonstrates a fish training gadget developed by Dr. Wisby at the U.W. Hydrobiology Laboratory on Lake Mendota.
Photograph

U.W. Hydrobiology Laboratory Research

Date: 05 29 1957
Description: Carp are in a net during an experiment to develop a more efficient seine at the U.W. Hydrobiology Laboratory on Lake Mendota.
Photograph

U.W. Hydrobiology Laboratory Research

Date: 05 29 1957
Description: Bill Heim inspects a water bottle before heading out on the lake to take water samples at various depths as Richard Pierce, an electrical engineer doing re...
Photograph

U.W. Madison Earth Satellite Project

Date: 12 04 1957
Description: Professor Verner Suomi of the University of Wisconsin meteorology department and leader of a university team building one of the U.S. satellites, is shown ...
Photograph

Ed Gein Arriving at State Crime Lab

Date: 11 19 1957
Description: Law enforcement officials escorting Ed Gein to the State Crime Lab, 917 University Avenue, for lie detector and other tests.
Photograph

U.W. Madison Earth Satellite Project

Date: 12 06 1957
Description: The small black sensor on the end of the antenna of a model Vanguard satellite, will detect differences in radiation as the satellite passes over the earth...
Photograph

National Forest Products Research Society Conference

Date: 06 24 1958
Description: Three attendees at the National Forest Products Research Society conference are Richard Haussman, U.S. Forest Service; John Lutz, Forest Products Laborator...

Have Questions?

If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.

Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: