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Pharmacist

Date: 1950
Description: A pharmacist working in the lab area of a pharmacy.
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Thomas Alva Edison, Mechanical Genius

Date: 02 17 1913
Description: Portrait of Thomas Alva Edison in his lab where he worked on his "talking moving machine."
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Professor Joseph Hirschfelder

Date: 08 08 1950
Description: Portrait of Professor Joseph Hirschfelder, University of Wisconsin chemist. He also is project director for the U.W. Naval Research Laboratory, member of t...
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Stan Lesar

Date: 02 27 1956
Description: Stan Lesar, laboratory manager at the American Scientific Laboratories and an immigrant from Yugoslavia, looks forward to voting for the first time in the ...
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University of Wisconsin Red Cross Fundraising Drive

Date: 03 12 1956
Description: University of Wisconsin Ph.D. student Peter E. Graf of Syracuse, New York does a laboratory experiment. He is a member of the Red Cross "Two Gallon Blood D...
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Clean Suit

Date: 08 29 1995
Description: Congressman David R. Obey putting on protective clothing for a tour of the Cray Computer facility.
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Young Lumber Mechanics

Date: 1921
Description: Group portrait of timber mechanics outdoors at the Forest Products Laboratory.
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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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Forest Products Lab

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Description: Group of men and women from Forest Products Lab posed with wooden propellers in front of a building.
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Forest Products Lab

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of men from the Forest Products Lab posed along with wooden propellers. They are posed on a hill, with trees in the background.
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Marion Roberts, Developer of Foamalum

Date: 08 05 1964
Description: Marion Roberts, a native of Texas, set up the Foamalum Research Laboratory on Fish Hatchery Road. The product was developed in the Bjorksten Research Cente...
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Biology Teaching Program

Date: 01 12 1965
Description: Charles Sommers, left, biology teacher at Cherokee Heights school is showing other biology teachers an experiment he found useful in his classes. The Madis...
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Biologist at Work

Date: 1938
Description: Superintendent of Biology Edward "Doc" Schneberger, who is wearing a long white coat, is sitting on a stool and looking through a microscope at a small tab...
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Taste Test

Date: 1950
Description: Five men, each with a small dish in front of them, are sitting around a table in the chemistry laboratory of the Robert A. Johnston Company. Several of the...
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Man in Control Room

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Description: A man is standing at a control board in a room with other equipment. There is a Toledo Scale on the left behind the control board. A window in the wall beh...
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George Wiley as a Chemistry Professor

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Description: Activist and science teacher George Wiley wearing a white lab coat and a bow tie while teaching a chemistry class.
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Dr. Oliver P. Watts in Laboratory

Date: 1949
Description: A man stands over a device, which he is inspecting. Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. 1949(?). Prof. Oliver P. Watts, retired distinguished authority on the co...

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