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Scene from "Time for Tomorrow"

Date: 1955
Description: Women, as well as men, can find a rewarding career in hospital pharmacy, as depicted here in a shot from "Time for Tomorrow", a film produced by the Americ...
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Gemini Interview

Date: 08 17 1965
Description: NBC News broadcaster Merrill Mueller interviewing Lockheed engineer Bud Zeller about the Gemini Agena Target Vehicle. The interview was part of a public re...
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Stripping and Printing a Negative

Date: 03 02 1934
Description: A man exposing a negative onto a zinc plate, in preparation for making a zinc etching at Wisconsin Engraving Co., 109 S. Carroll Street.
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Preparing a Negative for Stripping

Date: 03 02 1934
Description: A man in the camera room at the Wisconsin Engraving Company plant, 109 S. Carroll Street, is coating the wet plate negative with rubber and collodion to ma...
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Edison Movie Projector

Date: 10 19 1931
Description: Edison kinetascope, patented in 1897, one of the first motion picture projectors invented by Thomas A. Edison. It is hand cranked and chain driven.
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Charles W. Short, Botanist

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Description: Engraved portrait of Charles W. Short (1794-1863), Kentucky botanist. Worked at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, 1825-38. The plant genus ...
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"Romance of the Reaper" Film Still

Date: 1929
Description: Scene from the film "Romance of the Reaper" showing the building of the first practical reaper on the McCormick farm in Virginia. Actors playing the parts ...
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John Muir Clock

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Description: Detail of clock design by John Muir.
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Senator Wiley with Apollo Model

Date: 09 14 1962
Description: Senator Alexander Wiley posing with a cutaway model of an Apollo rocket. Behind him on a wall are portraits of Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy.
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Wisconsin High School Science Club Cancer Education

Date: 03 05 1952
Description: Making plans for Cancer Education Week, members of the Wisconsin High School science club are shown with "Careless Charlie,' inspecting posters. From left ...
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Biology Laboratory at College Misericordia

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Description: View of a biology laboratory at College Misericordia, established by the Sisters of Mercy on August 15, 1924. There are two rows of tables with lamps, and ...
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Our Lady of Wisdom Academy

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a science classroom at Putnam Catholic Academy. Two chalkboards line the walls and stools stand at laboratory tables throughout t...
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Putnam Catholic Academy

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a science room at Putnam Catholic Academy, looking out over the desks toward the back of the classroom. In the back is a large gl...
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Steel Guitar Ace

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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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Marjorie O'Brien Rapaport

Date: 07 12 1954
Description: Portrait of Marjorie Rapaport (Mrs. Ionel Rapaport), painter and authority on prehistoric cave art of France. She is wearing a prehistoric lion's tooth pen...
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Professor Arthur Roberts

Date: 07 24 1956
Description: Arthur Roberts, Professor of Physics at Rochester University, demonstrates his other passion in life while seated at a piano. He is in Madison working on a...
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Men Into Space

Date: 1959
Description: Four actors, dressed as astronauts, are seen on the set of the television show Men Into Space. The set depicts the lunar landscape and the men are n...
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Men Into Space Toys

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Description: Display of toys. On the left is the Colonel McCauley Space Unit, which includes a clear plastic container shaped like a rocket holding action figures. Ther...
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Men Into Space Col. McCauley Helmet

Date: 1960
Description: A young man models the Colonel McCauley space helmet based on the television show Men Into Space.
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William Lundigan and John Howard

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Description: William Lundigan, as Colonel Ed McCauley, and John Howard as Dr. Rowland Kennedy, both dressed in space suits, stand next to each other in what appears to ...

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