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Experimental 12 ft Combine Self Propelled

Date: 1942
Description: Seven men in overalls and hats are standing on or near an experimental 12 ft self propelled combine in a field.
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Flight Nurses Training in Anoxia Chamber

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Description: Flight nurses wearing leather suits, hoods, and oxygen masks during training in an anoxia chamber.
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Testing Area at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Men inside the McCormick Works standing at machinery doing research and development.
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Open House at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Date: 10 20 1962
Description: A small group of men viewing a satellite photo exhibit displayed at the U.W. Stock Pavilion during the Open House. Suspended from the ceiling above them is...
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Spot-Checking Production Line

Date: 04 1953
Description: Mae Houston inspecting a new supply of Pantry-Dors for the model L-103 refrigerator with a man on a factory floor.
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Group of Men and Boys Harvesting Seed Corn

Date: 10 04 1916
Description: Superintendent K.C. James, Club Leader Walter Cowan, and County Agent, R.A. Chitty, checking upon the ears selected by the boys.
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Ear Test for Ears of Corn

Date: 1916
Description: Group of men working inside a large room with samples of corn. Original caption: "Several hundred bushels were given six kernels every ear test, the averag...
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Taking Oxygen Samples

Date: 02 1977
Description: A man is kneeling on the ice and snow at Potter's Lake. He is running a machine that is testing the oxygen levels in the water, while recording the results...
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Birge and Juday

Date: 1925
Description: Limnologist Dr. Edward Birge (left) and Professor Chauncey Juday posing together outdoors at what is probably the lake research laboratory in Trout Lake.
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Testing Paper Apparatus

Date: 1922
Description: View of an unidentified man sitting on a stool demonstrating delicate paper testing apparatus. A poster on the wall reads: "International Metric System."
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Paper Chemical Laboratory

Date: 1922
Description: Interior view of two unidentified male scientists working with various paper testing apparatus in the corner of a chemical laboratory.
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Kimberly Clark Paper Testing Station

Date: 1922
Description: View of an unidentified male scientist looking into boxed paper apparatus, surrounded by other measuring tools and scales, in the corner of a Kimberly Clar...
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Air Monitoring Laboratory Van

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Description: View across street through chain-link fence towards a van labeled: "Department of Natural Resources Air Monitoring Laboratory." Behind the van and across a...
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Sturgeon

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Description: Two men are helping to hold down a sturgeon on the side of a boat as a third man tags the dorsal fin.
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Northern Pike Spawn Collection

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Description: Two men are collecting northern pike spawn on Fox Lake. One man is standing and holding the pike's head, while the other is sitting in a chair with a conta...
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Collecting Northern Pike Spawn

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Description: Close-up view of two men collecting northern pike spawn on Fox Lake. One man is standing and holding the pike's head, while the other man is sitting in a c...
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Tree Measuring

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Description: Two men wearing jumpsuits and hard hats are measuring a tree. One man is holding up a measuring tape across the width of the tree as the other man writes o...
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Examining PCB Levels in the Sheboygan River

Date: 10 1978
Description: Two men are standing on the rocky shoreline of the Sheboygan River. One man is holding a shovel in his right hand and a glass jar in his left hand. The oth...
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Examining PCB Pollution in Soil

Date: 10 1978
Description: Two men are kneeling on the ground. One man is holding a shovel while the other man is scooping dirt from the shovel into a glass jar. They are measuring P...
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Collecting Helgramites

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Description: A man wearing hip waders is standing in wetlands holding a collecting screen. He is collecting helgramites (a type of insect larva) to be used as bait for ...

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