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| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Stereograph portrait of Increase Allen Lapham (1811-1875) examining the sixth fragment of a 33 lb. meteorite found in Trenton, Washington County, Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders oval framed portrait of John Muir (1838-1914). |
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| Description: | Aldo Leopold, UW Professor of Wildlife Management, posing with binoculars around his neck. He is about to embark on an inspection and bird-watching tour of... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of naturalist, conservationist, and writer John Muir. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Lillian Sholes, demonstrating a prototype typewriter invented by her father, Christopher Latham Sholes. |
| Date: | 02 01 1947 |
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| Description: | Druggist Frank Stanish of Hieber's Drugstore measures and compounds a prescription. |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of a young Thomas Alva Edison. |
| Date: | 02 17 1913 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Thomas Alva Edison in his lab where he worked on his "talking moving machine." |
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| Description: | Portrait of Arthur Pratt Warner of Beloit, Wisconsin, about 1950, with a model of his first speedometer. Even today, most automobiles are equipped with sp... |
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| Description: | Astronaut Donald K. Slayton of Sparta, Wisconsin. Slayton enlisted in the Army Air Corps in 1942 at age 18 and flew 56 combat missions in B-25s during Worl... |
| Date: | 01 30 1931 |
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| Description: | Lillian Rice (aka Loretta La Boze), 18 of Janesville, in man's clothing with police matron, Pearl Shaughnessy, at the Police Station. Lillian was arrested ... |
| Date: | 07 1905 |
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| Description: | Edgar and Jennie Krueger outdoors in the yard. Edgar is sitting on a concrete planter holding a kitten in his lap. Jennie is kneeling in the grass weighing... |
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| Description: | "Doc" Edgerton adjusts equipment in the lab. Known for his pioneering work in the development of the electronic flash, his photograph of a splashing milk-d... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of inventor Obed Hussey (1782?-1860) as it appeared in W.T. Hutchinson's biography of Cyrus Hall McCormick. He is wearing an eye pa... |
| Date: | 02 23 1945 |
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| Description: | Dorothy Johansson, research assistant in zoology at the University of Wisconsin, performing an experiment using white rats to check techniques being develo... |
| Date: | 02 19 1947 |
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| Description: | Malcolm W. Jensen, age 30, City of Madison Sealer of Weights and Measures, is pictured at his desk in the Madison City Market Building. The objects on his... |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of Charles W. Short (1794-1863), Kentucky botanist. Worked at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, 1825-38. The plant genus ... |
| Date: | 05 24 1947 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Dr. Leon Cole with an open book, pioneer geneticist at the University of Wisconsin. Cole worked with animal and crop sciences prior to his rece... |
| Date: | 04 09 1948 |
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| Description: | Police Officer Lester Shore, holding a "River Shiner" fishing lure, for which he holds a patent. It is a casting plug that has a metal lip and shaft and im... |
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