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American Inventors

Date: 1900
Description: Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio...
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Frank P. Stanish

Date: 02 01 1947
Description: Druggist Frank Stanish of Hieber's Drugstore measures and compounds a prescription.
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Shooting for the Moon

Date: 05 14 1963
Description: Lunar trajectory paths and computations on a blackboard are discussed by employees of Milwaukee's Astronautics, Inc.
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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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Interior of North St. Market

Date: 04 08 1938
Description: Four employees behind the meat counter in the North St. Meat Market (Jacobson's), 227 North Street.
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Toledo Computogram Scale with Tradesman

Date: 05 20 1931
Description: Interior view of a Toledo Computogram scale on a counter in a Dodgeville store, with the grocer weighing bananas. In the background is a display of merchan...
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Gilson Metal Locator

Date: 03 15 1945
Description: Hulda Gieschen and Dr. Warren E. Gilson, who specializes in electro-physiology and medical electronics at the University of Wisconsin, are looking at a Gil...
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Cotton Picking Machine

Date: 05 17 1916
Description: Men gathered outdoors around a cotton picking machine exhibited at the National Implement and Vehicle Association Meeting.
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Clarence L. Dauberman Farm

Date: 07 31 1941
Description: People gathered around a Farmall Regular tractor on the farm of Clarence L. Dauberman. Original caption reads: "Sydney G. McAllister, chairman, executive c...
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Earl C. Smith Giving a Speech

Date: 07 31 1941
Description: Earl C. Smith, president of the Illinois Agricultural Association, speaks into a microphone at an event to honor Mr. Clarence Dauberman for creating the fi...
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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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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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Walter Scott Weighing DDT Transcript

Date: 09 26 1969
Description: Walter Scott of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources weighs the 4,499-page transcript of Wisconsin's DDT hearings.
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Cerebral Palsy Research Grant Presentation

Date: 02 25 1960
Description: Thomas Hefty, right, treasurer of the United Cerebral Palsy Association Dane County chapter, presents a check to Dr. Lowell E. Hokin, a University of Wisco...
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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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