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| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Cover of United States Department of the Interior Circular 11 entitled DDT: Its Effect on Fish and Wildlife by Clarence Cottam and Elmer Higgins. Th... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Pages one and Two of Senate Bill 458 regarding the depositing of toxic insecticides. |
| Date: | 07 1957 |
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| Description: | Letter from Mrs. F.L. "Dixie" Larkin of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to The Wisconsin Conservation Department regarding the use of DDT to control Dutch Elm Diseas... |
| Date: | 06 30 1957 |
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| Description: | Letter from Marie Thompson of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, President of the Animal Protective League to John Beale, Chief Forester at the Wisconsin Conservation D... |
| Date: | 07 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Letter from Harold Kruse, President of Citizens Natural Resources Association of Wisconsin, to L.P. Voigt of the Wisconsin Conservation Department regardin... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of a barn, shed, and fence, used to illustrate places where mites and lice might breed. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Bulletin urging farmers to kill grasshoppers with poisoned bran bait, featuring an illustration of a hand spreading bait for grasshoppers to eat. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Illustration made for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to demonstrate the danger of pests, including diseases carried by insects... |
| Date: | 07 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Dr. Karl Paul Link, professor of biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, right, is pictured with Dr. Mohan Singh, director of food preservations for t... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of students and a teacher are sitting at desks in a classroom while listening to a lesson on the dangers of house flies. Agricultural lecture chart... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A student is using a pointer to direct the attention of seated students toward a poster labeled "Life Cycle of a Fly" during a lesson on the dangers of hou... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A wooden fly trap standing at the back entrance to the farmhouse of Professor Perry Holden. |
| Date: | 09 20 1924 |
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| Description: | A man stands on a platform made of wood while using a sprayer to apply pesticide to a grove of fruit trees. Another man stands on the back, and another man... |
| Date: | 06 1939 |
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| Description: | Two men use a 150-gallon sprayer attached to the back of a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor to apply pesticide to trees in an orchard. The photograph was t... |
| Date: | 06 29 1939 |
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| Description: | Four men use a 150 gallon sprayer and a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor to apply pesticide to an orchard. The photograph was taken in Markham, Ontario, Can... |
| Date: | 07 15 1929 |
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| Description: | A man drives a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?) tractor through an orchard as another man stands on an orchard sprayer while applying what is probably pesticide ... |
| Date: | 05 17 1929 |
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| Description: | A man drives an International tractor through an orchard while another man uses an orchard sprayer to apply what is probably pesticide to the trees. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Two men use a McCormick-Deering tractor and an orchard sprayer to apply pesticide to trees at night. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | German Prisoner of War stationed in Wisconsin Rapids working on the A.E. Bennett and Sons Cranberry Marsh. He is spraying the cranberry crop with either an... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Irving R. Bennett, of the A.E. Bennett & Son Cranberry Marsh, spraying cranberry marshes for pest and weed control. The hose was attached to a rig that cou... |
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