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German Scientist with Test Tube

Date: 1880
Description: Illustration of a scientist in his lab gazing at a test tube, with a caption in German that translates to "Eureka! I have found it!".
Photograph

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 ...
Photograph

Madison Dairy Laboratory

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

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Bernice Johnston Death

Date: 11 28 1949
Description: County officers and state crime lab officials searching for clues in the pasture near Fitch Hatchery road, where Bernice Johnston was beaten and abandoned....
Photograph

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...
Poster

Buy War Bonds for Fighting Power Today

Date: 1943
Description: Treasury Design No. 25, "Blue Prints." The poster features two contrasting scenes. On the left is an explosive battle scene in shades of dark blue. On the ...
Photograph

Muir Knoll Dedication Ceremony

Date: 06 18 1918
Description: Dedication ceremony for Muir Knoll on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Judge Milton S. Griswold is speaking at flag-draped podium, and a ...
Photograph

Neda Mine Bat Hibernaculum

Date: 11 1996
Description: "The Neda mine has four miles of corridors over about 22 arches."
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Neda Mine Bat Hibernaculum

Date: 11 1996
Description: "Bill Volkert, Naturalist."
Photograph

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.
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Birge and Juday on the Ice

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Description: Dr. Edward Birge (left) and Chancey Juday (center) do limnology research on the ice with a mud thermometer.
Photograph

Group Portrait

Date: 1934
Description: A group of scientists posing together for a group portrait. E.A. Birge is the first man on the right, and Chancey Juday is in the center of the group, sixt...

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