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Students Conducting Scientific Research

Date: 1900
Description: Downer College students working in a laboratory in which a human skeleton, a frog, a bat and stuffed birds are displayed.
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Laboratory Experiment

Date: 1928
Description: Professor Hull conducting an experiment at the Psychological laboratory of the University of Wisconsin.
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Smokey Bear with School Children

Date: 1954
Description: A man dressed in a Smokey Bear costume is standing with two Milwaukee school children. A young girl is sitting at a desk, and a boy is standing and holding...
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Chemistry Experiment

Date: 05 25 1951
Description: Chemistry experiment by two men being conducted with steam rising from equipment.
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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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Physics Lab

Date: 1901
Description: Students and teacher in physics lab at Stevens Point Normal School, which would later become the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
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Telescope at Washburn Observatory

Date: 1930
Description: Telescope at Washburn Observatory with man at controls.
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Nutrition Lab

Date: 1931
Description: Two students work in the nutrition lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Women Astronomers

Date: 1880
Description: Maria Mitchell, first woman astronomer in the United States at Vassar College.
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Female Pharmacy Students

Date: 1915
Description: A professor checks the progress of several female students in a pharmaceutical laboratory course.
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Science Project

Date: 02 28 1964
Description: Two young boys work on a science project in a lab room.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Pharmacy Lab

Date: 1890
Description: View of an empty University of Wisconsin-Madison pharmacy laboratory.
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Science Laboratory, Marshall Hall, Edgewood College

Date: 05 16 1942
Description: Seven Edgewood College (Sacred Heart Academy) women sitting at tables in Marshall Hall science laboratory, located at 1000 Edgewood Avenue.
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Student Nurses in Laboratory

Date: 09 30 1932
Description: Three student nurses in a laboratory at Wisconsin General Hospital.
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Dr. Claude Reading

Date: 09 02 1931
Description: Dr. Claude Reading, new director of the state veterinary control laboratory in Agriculture Hall at the University of Wisconsin, at work in his laboratory.
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Meteorologist Reading Wind Instrument

Date: 06 16 1931
Description: Albert Lorenz, assistant U.S. meteorologist, is reading a wind velocity instrument in the laboratory at North Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Potentiometer Thermometer

Date: 07 16 1931
Description: Potentiometer Thermometer being read by Albert Lorenz, assistant meteorologist, U.S. Weather Bureau, North Hall, University of Wisconsin.
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Scales

Date: 07 30 1929
Description: A man reading a scale at the University of Wisconsin engineering building.
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Weight-o-graph

Date: 10 08 1928
Description: Weight-o-graph at the University of Wisconsin Dairy Building. Cream City Scale Company.
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Physics Equipment

Date: 09 12 1928
Description: Miles J. Martin laboratory equipment and Underwood typewriter used for thesis at the Physics building (Sterling Hall?) located on the University of Wiscons...

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