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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Edward A. Birge and Chancey Juday with plankton trap in Lake Mendota. From album of photographs relating to the research in limnology conducted at Trout La... |
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| Description: | Dr. Edward Ashael Birge paddling on a raft in Trout Lake. In 1875 Dr. Birge first came to teach natural history at the University of Wisconsin, and remaine... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Dr. E.A. Birge in his element, reading an anemometer of the weather data station on Green Lake. |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Map showing the location of meteorological stations and effects that Lake Michigan has had on Wisconsin temperatures in January and July. The map shows cou... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Aerial view over University Avenue of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus, including University farm in the upper middle. The shoreline of Lake Mend... |
| Date: | 08 1960 |
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| Description: | This map shows a detailed account of southwestern Wisconsin. Individual settlers, the type of trees that grow in given areas, the quality of the soil (labe... |
| Date: | 02 1977 |
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| Description: | A man is kneeling on the ice and snow at Potter's Lake. He is running a machine that is testing the oxygen levels in the water, while recording the results... |
| Date: | 01 13 1937 |
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| Description: | Sketch map of Township 7 North, Range 9 East, created for the Land Economic Inventory (Bordner Survey). The map shows Picnic Point and the Lake Mendota sho... |
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| Description: | Two men are collecting northern pike spawn on Fox Lake. One man is standing and holding the pike's head, while the other is sitting in a chair with a conta... |
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| Description: | Close-up view of two men collecting northern pike spawn on Fox Lake. One man is standing and holding the pike's head, while the other man is sitting in a c... |
| Date: | 05 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Dr. Theodore Schreiner, a research assistant from Tuebingen, West Germany (right), holds a cage while Laboratory Director Professor Arthur D. Hasler record... |
| Date: | 05 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Carp are in a net during an experiment to develop a more efficient seine at the U.W. Hydrobiology Laboratory on Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 05 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Bill Heim inspects a water bottle before heading out on the lake to take water samples at various depths as Richard Pierce, an electrical engineer doing re... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View looking down slope towards the Bacteriology Laboratory on the shore of Trout Lake. Trees are around the small, wood sided building, and the lake is in... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Dr. Birge sitting in a boat, probably at Trout Lake. The outboard motor on the boat has been tilted out of the water. A wooded shoreline is in the distance... |
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