Date: | 1872 |
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Description: | Lillian Sholes, demonstrating a prototype typewriter invented by her father, Christopher Latham Sholes. |
Date: | 1919 |
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Description: | Inventor, B.L. Boboroff, displays his vote recording device to members of the U.S. House of Representatives. |
Date: | 1901 |
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Description: | Wilbur Wright (standing, second from the right) with Edward C. Huffaker, Octave Chanute, and George Spratt in the workshed. Chanute was a special visitor f... |
Date: | 09 29 1945 |
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Description: | Toddler sitting at child's training desk, with lid closed. |
Date: | 09 29 1945 |
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Description: | Little boy at child's training desk with bench seat. |
Date: | 09 29 1945 |
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Description: | Young girl seated at child's training desk with top open showing blackboard. |
Date: | 11 04 1943 |
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Description: | Closed ladder against trade shelves at Madison-Kipp Corp., 201-231 Waubesa Street. |
Date: | 03 25 1947 |
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Description: | Metal baby high chair capable of disassembling and folding for easy transport. Close-up view of chair disassembled, with parts packed in a suitcase. View d... |
Date: | 03 25 1947 |
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Description: | Metal baby high chair, capable of being disassembled and folded for easy transport. Taken for Halbert M. Wood, WooDick Corporation. |
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Description: | A woman demonstrates the use of a homemade bee catcher on a tree in her yard. |
Date: | 1933 |
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Description: | Map created by International Harvester entitled: "The United States as it appeared in 1831 when Cyrus Hall McCormick invented the Reaper." The map pinpoint... |
Date: | 1928 |
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Description: | Crowd seated on the lawn of Agriculture Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a ceremony honoring S.M. Babcock, inventor of the butter test. |
Date: | 03 14 1949 |
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Description: | Mrs. Edith Trowbridge, 4202 Mandan Cresent, pulls a ring on a string which opens a trap door to a metal-lined slide to a basement trash box under her sink ... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | A man is using a team of two horses to pull a McCormick reaper in a field, while other women and men are raking the cut grain. |
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Description: | Jack Penewell of Madison, originator of the twelve string Hawaiian guitar (or so his business card says), with another musician tentatively identified as T... |
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Description: | Faye Geise, wearing a bikini, is sitting on a lawn and posing with Aqua Form, a local invention. |
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Description: | Faye Geise, wearing a bikini, is standing and posing with the Aqua Form on her head. |
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Description: | Two barefoot men are standing and looking at a dilapidated outhouse, which has a sliding board for a seat extending out of the sides of the outhouse. The b... |
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Description: | A man is standing on the left next to an outhouse which has been connected to machinery. The caption below reads: "This built in service unit increased our... |
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