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Edgewood College Laboratory

Date: 1958
Description: The Mazzuchelli Biological Laboratory at Edgewood College.
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Professor Conrad Elvehjem

Date: 10 03 1947
Description: Biochemist, Professor Conrad Elvehjem in his laboratory. His research led to the discovery of a cure for human pellegra and to knowledge of the nutritional...
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University of Wisconsin Textile Testing

Date: 04 01 1948
Description: Margaret Cooper, Associate Professor of Home Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and director of the textile laboratory, testing the bursting...
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University of Wisconsin Textile Testing

Date: 04 01 1948
Description: Arliss Otto, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from Menominee Falls, testing a sample of fabric for fading at a laboratory fadeometer.
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University of Wisconsin Home Economics Class

Date: 10 28 1948
Description: University of Wisconsin home economics student Mrs. Hazel (Jobelle) Shands, Eagles Heights, researching ways to protect home-rendered lard from going ranci...
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University of Wisconsin Home Economics Class

Date: 10 28 1948
Description: University of Wisconsin home economics student Charlene Bishop, making pancakes in a laboratory.
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American Red Cross Blood Center

Date: 06 07 1950
Description: Dr. Merle Owen Hamel (left), American Red Cross Blood Center physician, shows features of the center laboratory to Mrs. John Brown, volunteer representing ...
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Professor Joseph Hirschfelder

Date: 08 08 1950
Description: Portrait of Professor Joseph Hirschfelder, University of Wisconsin chemist. He also is project director for the U.W. Naval Research Laboratory, member of t...
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 11 1950
Description: Three women employees of Forest Products Laboratory and members of the Madison Business and Professional Women's Club, pose around a microscope. The club i...
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Pharmacy School Open House

Date: 10 26 1950
Description: Senior pharmacy students work in the dispensing laboratory to practice filling prescriptions during the University of Wisconsin pharmacy school open house....
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Wisconsin Civilian Defense Nurses Enrolment Day

Date: 02 20 1951
Description: Al Hammond, a technician at the state crime laboratory, poses with some testing equipment. As a former medical corps man during World War II, he would be a...
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National League of American Pen Women

Date: 07 09 1951
Description: Dr. Eloise Gerry at her desk at the United States Forest Products Laboratory where she is a distinguished wood technologist. Dr. Gerry, whose research arti...
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University of Wisconsin Engineering Expo

Date: 04 10 1953
Description: Jack Botteron, Beloit high school student, touches a small Van de Graaff generator which causes his hair to stand on end while attending the UW Engineering...
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University of Wisconsin School of Home Economics West Wing Interiors

Date: 05 20 1953
Description: Interior view of textile chemical laboratory at the new U.W. School of Home Economics west wing.
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Muscular Dystrophy Research at University of Wisconsin Hospitals

Date: 10 17 1953
Description: Dr. John Harmon, associate professor of pathology at the University of Wisconsin and head of the Muscular Dystrophy project, works with a spectrophotometer...
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Dr. Oliver P. Watts in Laboratory

Date: 1949
Description: A man stands over a device, which he is inspecting. Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. 1949(?). Prof. Oliver P. Watts, retired distinguished authority on the co...

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