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Chadbourne Hall 75th Anniversary Celebration

Date: 10 18 1956
Description: Five University of Wisconsin coeds dressed in 1871 period costumes with Professor Harry F. Harlow in his classroom. Pictured left to right: Marilyn Moevs, ...
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Charles Whittlesey, Geologist

Date: 1858
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Charles Whittlesey (1808-1886), American Geologist. Fought in the Black Hawk War. Opened a law office and newspaper in Clevelan...
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Professor Ezra S. Carr, Geologist

Date: 1866
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Ezra S. Carr, geologist and California State Superintendent. He held chemistry professorships at various institution...
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Professor Pierre Jean Édouard Desor, Geologist

Date: 1865
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Édouard Desor (1811-1882), Swiss geologist and professor at Neuchâtel academy. He chiefly studied the structure of glaciers an...
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Gustav Bohstedt

Date: 03 07 1947
Description: Prof. Gustav Bohstedt, University of Wisconsin Animal Husbandry professor, seated in his automobile. He was chosen as a courteous driver in the AAA campai...
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Spencer Fullerton Baird, Ornithologist and Ichthylogist

Date: 1867
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823-1887), American ornithologist and ichthylogist. In 1838, Baird met John James Audubon, after whic...
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Dr. Jared Potter Kirtland, Geologist and Physician

Date: 1866
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite of Dr. Jared Potter Kirtland (1793-1877), American scientist. Kirtland, among many other exploits, worked on the 1837 Ohio geolog...
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Alexander Dallas Bache, Scientist

Date: 1867
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Alexander Dallas Bache (1806-1867). Worked as Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry at University of Pennsylv...
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Professor Laurits Esmark, Zoologist

Date: 1858
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Laurits Esmark (1806-1884), Norwegian Zoologist. Esmark served as a professor of Zoology at Christiania University in...
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Professor Alexander Kerr, Classicist

Date: 1865
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Alexander Kerr (1828-1919), Scottish-born Professor of Greek at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Appointed to his...
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Professor Alexander Winchell, Geologist

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Description: Quarter-length carte-de-visite of Alexander Winchell (1824-1891), State Geologist of Michigan and Professor of Geology and Paleontology at the University o...
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University of Wisconsin Commencement

Date: 05 25 1947
Description: University of Wisconsin Commencement honorary degree recipients with Governor Oscar Rennebohm and, left to right, President E.B. Fred, John Van Vleck, form...
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Professor William B. Sarles

Date: 05 25 1947
Description: Portrait of Professor William B. Sarles, agricultural bacteriologist, and newly appointed chairman of the athletic board.
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Dr. John Lang Cassells, Chemist

Date: 1866
Description: Reproduction of a carte-de-visite portrait of Johnathan Lang Cassells (1808-1866), Scottish-born chemist. Worked as a physician and a Professor of chemistr...
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Professor Henry Ewbank

Date: 08 13 1947
Description: Portrait of Professor Henry Ewbank, the first director of Wisconsin Public Radio-WHA, and internationally known as a pioneer in radio education and the tea...
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Professor Helen C. White

Date: 09 20 1947
Description: Professor Helen C. White, former national president of the American Association of University Women, and English professor at the University of Wisconsin, ...
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Kansas State Agricultural College Students Working

Date: 01 1921
Description: Three groups of male students working on three different tractors outdoors, including a Titan 10-20, while two men (professors?) look on at the Kansas Stat...
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Kansas State Agricultural College Traction Engine Laboratory

Date: 01 1921
Description: Students working on tractors outdoors, including the Titan 10-20, while two men (professors?) look on at the Kansas State Agricultural College Traction Eng...
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Community Chest Style Show

Date: 11 05 1947
Description: University of Wisconsin faculty and student style show for the benefit of Campus Community Chest. Modeling are Aileen Courteen, Dean Paul Trump, and Lou Am...
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WHA Radio Station Program

Date: 01 1948
Description: Dr. Robert West, director of the University of Wisconsin speech clinic, and Martha Heffernen, psychologist, broadcast the WHA radio station "Our Children" ...

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