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Dr. Babcock with Butterfat Tester

Date: 1926
Description: Dr. Stephen Babcock with an electric centrifuge butterfat tester.
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Taste Test at Oscar Mayer

Date: 10 16 1945
Description: Slightly elevated view of men and women sitting around a table, sampling slices of Oscar Mayer meat products in the Oscar Mayer laboratory. A women in a lo...
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George Trayer with Plywood Panel

Date: 06 23 1933
Description: U.S. Forest Products engineer, George W. Trayer, in the laboratory with a plywood panel, newly developed to provide strength and durability in construction...
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Oscar Mayer Laboratory

Date: 09 09 1931
Description: Lab worker conducting a test at the Oscar Mayer laboratory.
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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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Toledo Scale

Date: 07 30 1929
Description: A man reads a Toledo scale at the University of Wisconsin engineering building.
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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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B.B. Stoller Tending Mushroom Garden

Date: 09 19 1944
Description: B.B. Stoller tending the University of Wisconsin mushroom garden in the "hole in the ground" which is a bricked and vaulted recess located in the hillside ...
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Dorothy Johansson in University of Wisconsin Laboratory

Date: 02 23 1945
Description: Dorothy Johansson, research assistant in zoology at the University of Wisconsin, performing an experiment using white rats to check techniques being develo...
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Professor Conrad Elvehjem

Date: 10 03 1947
Description: Biochemist, Professor Conrad Elvehjem in his laboratory. His research led to the discovery of a cure for human pellegra and to knowledge of the nutritional...
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Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

Date: 01 1948
Description: Two men in a laboratory weighing rats at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
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McCardle Memorial Laboratory for Cancer Research

Date: 05 04 1948
Description: Dr. Harold P. Rusch, right, director of the McArdle Memorial Laboratory for cancer research, is shown with R.O. McLean, Madison, executive director, Wiscon...
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Damon Runyon Memorial Fund for Cancer Research

Date: 07 06 1950
Description: Rex Karney (left), associate editor of the Wisconsin State Journal (left), presents a check for $10,000 to Dr. W.D. Middleton for cancer research at...
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Muscular Dystrophy Research at University of Wisconsin Hospitals

Date: 10 17 1953
Description: Dr. John Harmon, associate professor of pathology at the University of Wisconsin and head of the Muscular Dystrophy project, works with a spectrophotometer...
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Muscular Dystrophy Research at University of Wisconsin Hospitals

Date: 08 15 1953
Description: International scientists work alongside two American researchers on the University of Wisconsin Hospitals muscular dystrophy research project. Pictured lef...
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Poultry Science

Date: 1925
Description: Group of ten people, both men and women, observing a researcher working in a laboratory with young chickens in a wire cage beneath a lamp. The researcher w...
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Air Monitoring Laboratory Van

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Description: View across street through chain-link fence towards a van labeled: "Department of Natural Resources Air Monitoring Laboratory." Behind the van and across a...
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Chemistry Lab at Oscar Mayer

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Description: Elevated view of two men in a chemistry lab with glass block walls. The men are standing in front of two different wet bench lab tables, and are working on...
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University of WisconsinHydrobiology Laboratory Research

Date: 05 29 1957
Description: Dr. Theodore Schreiner, a research assistant from Tuebingen, West Germany (right), holds a cage while Laboratory Director Professor Arthur D. Hasler record...

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