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James L. Clark, City Health Inspector

Date: 09 20 1947
Description: James L. Clark, Madison city health inspector, shown pointing to a map of Madison marked with X's signifying places with rat infestation.
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Rat Extermination

Date: 09 30 1947
Description: James Capacio and John H. Endres, assistant to L.B. Kelly of the Solvit Chemical Company, distributing poison bread at the Shorewood dump in a rat extermin...
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Rat Extermination

Date: 09 30 1947
Description: James L. Clarke, city health inspector, placing a warning sign on a fence at the Shorewood dump after workers distributed poison bread bait in the dump.
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Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

Date: 01 1948
Description: Two men in a laboratory weighing rats at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
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Spreading Rat Poison in Dump

Date: 08 12 1948
Description: James L. Clarke (left) city health inspector, and Lewis B. Kelly (right) president of the Solvit Chemical Corp., are shown as they prepare to scatter the b...
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Scattering Rat Poison in City Dump

Date: 08 12 1948
Description: Two men are scattering barium carbonate rat poison in a city dump located at the end of Fern Drive off Highbury Road near University Avenue. The land was o...
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Wil-Kil Pest Control

Date: 1955
Description: Exterior view of the Wil-Kil Pest Control building at 705 Williamson Street. The sign above the entrance features a rat and a cockroach depicted in neon.

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