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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Stacks of the Historical Library

Date: 1898
Description: Cluttered work space of the librarian responsible for the Historical Society's newspaper collection during the period when the Society occupied rooms in th...
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Microfilm Users

Date: 05 15 1952
Description: Kenneth Duckett and Alan E. Kent, historians employed by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, using the microfilm reader in the Society's old, first ...
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Shorewood Hills Classroom

Date: 06 1947
Description: Teacher and three students in a classroom at Shorewood Hills School looking at a Weston Photonic Foot-candle Meter that measures light in the room.
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Hankscraft Baby Dish

Date: 11 04 1947
Description: Hankscrafts electric baby food dish, heated for serving.
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Ray-O-Vac Batteries

Date: 02 13 1948
Description: Ray-O-Vac Photoflash batteries in a display box.
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Paul Blaugh and Minirama Underwater Engines

Date: 06 1964
Description: Paul Blaugh posing with the underwater electric engines that pulled boats on model river for Minirama.
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Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show

Date: 04 07 1949
Description: Barbara Lampert, a University of Wisconsin senior, tunes a 1921 model radio next to her new radio-record player at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Sho...
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Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show

Date: 04 07 1949
Description: Mary C. Donahoe inspecting an antique gas range next to new model at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show in the East High School gymnasium.
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Madison Home Appliance and Radion Show

Date: 04 07 1949
Description: Charles M. Mickelson is loading an automatic washer, with the companion dryer at the left, at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show in the East High Sc...
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Electrical Boxes on Wall

Date: 07 19 1949
Description: A panel of Square D electrical boxes installed on a wall by Endres Electric Company.
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UW Summer Reading Clinic

Date: 07 19 1949
Description: University of Wisconsin summer reading clinic. Jack Ackerman, a teacher from Manitowoc, giving a vision screening test using telebinoculars.
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Crowd in Street of Black River Falls

Date: 1908
Description: Tourists look on as a group of Ho-Chunk dressed in traditional regalia are walking down the street during the Homecoming Celebration.
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Ho-Chunk Man and Women in Wagon

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Description: Ho-Chunk man and two Ho-Chunk women in a wagon pulled by a two-horse team. They are probably about to cross the bridge toward the Mission at the intersecti...
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Ho-Chunk Woman and Three Children in Town

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Description: Ho-Chunk woman, and three Ho-Chunk children wearing winter clothes, standing on a board sidewalk in town, probably Black River Falls. Two of the children a...
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Tuberculosis Research in Laboratory

Date: 11 15 1950
Description: University of Wisconsin professor J.W. Williams, and Mrs. Winifred Saunders, research associate, work with an electrophoresis instrument in a laboratory in...
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Hearing Impaired Children

Date: 03 02 1951
Description: Two children with a hearing impairment, each seated in their mother's lap, learn about an instrument designed to help them hear. It will be used in an upco...
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Madison Teachers — Education Week

Date: 11 06 1951
Description: Madison West High School physics teacher Frederick Schuler works with an oscilloscope.
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Shearing Sheep

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Description: Two men shearing sheep indoors. Two coats are hanging on the wall on the left. The shearers electrical system and/or motor that powers the electric razors ...
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Electric Chair, Sing Sing Prison

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Description: View of an electric chair with straps in a room with wooden walls and a concrete floor. Caption reads: "Electric Chair, Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N.Y."
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Two Men Operate Electronic Equipment

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Description: Elevated view of two men operating electronic equipment at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). One of the men is wearing headphones, and there is a lon...

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