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Iowa's First Flyer

Date: 1906
Description: The monoplane glider built and flown by Carl S. Bates of Clear Lake, Iowa. During the previous year Bates had built a bi-plane glider.
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Weighing a Turkey

Date: 11 1947
Description: A worker at Frank Lyons Turkey Farm, Verona, is weighing a turkey as two girls are looking on.
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Dr. John H. Gieselman

Date: 01 27 1947
Description: Dr. John H. Gieselman, osteopathic physician, shown at a microscope. Dr. Gieselman often designed his own diagnostic equipment. He invented a new mechani...
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Malcolm W. Jensen

Date: 02 19 1947
Description: Malcolm W. Jensen, age 30, City of Madison Sealer of Weights and Measures, is pictured at his desk in the Madison City Market Building. The objects on his...
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Photographic Remote Flash

Date: 03 13 1947
Description: Sheldon Wengel and Howard La Court demonstrating a photographer's remote flash with a woman model.
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Madison Sandblast and Body Shop

Date: 04 16 1947
Description: Exterior view of Madison Sandblast and Body Shop, 113 South Dickinson Street, located in back of the Gisholt Machine Company.
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Washburn Observatory

Date: 06 17 1947
Description: Exterior of Washburn Observatory on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Madison Soap Box Derby Weigh-In

Date: 07 26 1947
Description: Weigh-in for Soap Box Derby entrants. Pierre Slightam, in striped shirt, has his car the Doodlebug weighed. The floor of the car was made from an old iro...
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Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene

Date: 08 07 1947
Description: Dr. Ann Laird, resident in pathology at Wisconsin General Hospital, adjusts the technocon which speeds cancer diagnosis, in the laboratory at the Wisconsin...
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Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 09 11 1947
Description: Visiting Nurse Service, sponsored by Attic Angels, at a child health center at Emerson School. This center is one of five child health centers sponsored by...
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Chemistry Department Open House

Date: 11 05 1947
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison Chemistry Department open house. Three men are looking at equipment on laboratory table.
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Dairy Laboratory Truck

Date: 1947
Description: Two men standing at the rear of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture dairy laboratory truck, which has wooden steps leading up to the open rear doors.
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Woman Working in Laboratory

Date: 01 10 1948
Description: A woman in a laboratory coat working in a laboratory. (Possibily Jane Fred?).
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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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Berg Boat Wheels

Date: 02 11 1948
Description: A Thompson boat with detachable Berg boat wheels on the stern and an Evinrude outboard motor. Taken for the Kulzick Advertizing Agency. A man is standing i...
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McCardle Memorial Laboratory for Cancer Research

Date: 05 04 1948
Description: Dr. Harold P. Rusch, right, director of the McArdle Memorial Laboratory for cancer research, is shown with R.O. McLean, Madison, executive director, Wiscon...
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Emerson Elementary School Science Room

Date: 05 13 1948
Description: Fourth graders at Emerson Elementary School, 2421 East Johnson Street, shown using microscopes in the school's science room. Left to right: David Meng, Tom...
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Emerson Elementary School Science Room

Date: 04 13 1948
Description: Fourth grade students at Emerson Elementary School, 2421 East Johnson Street, shown examining stuffed birds in the school's science room. Left to right: Da...
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Forest Products Laboratory Workers Honored

Date: 04 24 1948
Description: Forest Products Laboratory workers are honored in a ceremony. They received a silver superior service award in recognition of laboratory employees during W...
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Group of Seven Passenger Pigeons

Date: 1896
Description: Seven passenger pigeons (possibly other types of pigeon as well?), a species of pigeon now extinct. Part of a group of pigeons that lived in captivity in t...

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