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Chemist Testing Paint

Date: 06 24 1944
Description: Female chemist using C.M. Ambrose Company paint mixer for testing paint, with a man looking on at the Mautz Paint and Varnish Company, 939 East Washington ...
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Madison Dairy Laboratory

Date: 01 09 1946
Description: Two men performing a test in a laboratory at the Madison Dairy, 1018 East Washington Avenue.
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James Dwight Dana, Geologist

Date: 1865
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of James Dwight Dana (1813-1895), American minerologist, geologist, and zoologist. He is best known for his discoveries of mountai...
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Fielding B. Meek, Paleontologist

Date: 1868
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Fielding B. Meek (1817-1876), American paleontologist. Meek became the Smithsonian Institution's first full-time paleontologist...
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Charles Christopher Parry, Botanist

Date: 1865
Description: Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Charles C. Parry (1823-1890), American Botanist. Parry is most famous for his botanical research in the southern Ro...
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Robert Kennicott, Naturalist

Date: 1862
Description: Full-length carte-de-visite of Robert Kennicott (1835-1866), American Naturalist. After 1853 he worked for Spencer Fullerton Baird at the Smithsonian Insti...
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Alice Evans and Gen. Omar Bradley

Date: 06 19 1948
Description: Alice Evans, internationally known bacteriologist, chatted before the graduation with General Omar Bradley, army chief of staff.
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J.M. Smucker Company Quality Control Department

Date: 1970
Description: Two women in paper "Smucker's" hats are watching a man at work in a laboratory beyond a set of windows, presumably at J.M. Smucker Company's Quality Contro...
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Stream Gauging Station at Yahara River

Date: 03 1965
Description: Keith Brigham is shown checking the U.S. Geological Survey stream gauging station located at the Yahara river locks on Lake Waubesa near McFarland.
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Oscar Mayer Meat Scientist

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Description: A male employee wearing a lab coat and hat is standing in front of an open oven, checking the temperature of a meatloaf with a thermometer.

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