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| Date: | 08 31 1939 |
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| Description: | Solvit Chemical Co. sign nailed across two doors numbered 107 & 105, sign says: "Keep Out, Badger 4717 — Madison, Wis., 'Poison Gas' Fumigation." |
| Date: | 07 27 1944 |
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| Description: | City of Madison staff demonstrating homemade liquid mosquito sprayer designed by Dr. Bernhard "Dommie" Domogalla, city biochemist. Left to right: LeRoy Joh... |
| Date: | 07 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Glen Lindsey displays the fly traps he invented to trap thousands of flies in the Truax Field area. |
| Date: | 08 22 1946 |
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| Description: | Sherwin Williams Company, 340 State Street, window display of PESTROY-DDT, new brush-on liquid coating for screens, porches, basements, sills, thresholds, ... |
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| Description: | Two men operating a hose to spray DDT into tall grass near water. |
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| Description: | Men pumping DDT from a tank on the back of a truck to be sprayed into a field. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Wil-Kil Pest Control building at 705 Williamson Street. The sign above the entrance features a rat and a cockroach depicted in neon. |
| Date: | 11 01 1958 |
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| Description: | All elm trees in Maple Bluff are sprayed for Dutch elm disease in accordance with the village's compulsory spraying ordinance. Charles Webster, 2740 Milwau... |
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