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Dorothy Johansson in University of Wisconsin Laboratory

Date: 02 23 1945
Description: Dorothy Johansson, research assistant in zoology at the University of Wisconsin, performing an experiment using white rats to check techniques being develo...
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University of Wisconsin Textile Testing

Date: 04 01 1948
Description: Margaret Cooper, Associate Professor of Home Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and director of the textile laboratory, testing the bursting...
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Divers Testing New Breathing Mixture in a Revolutionary Dive Suit

Date: 1937
Description: John Craig, Max Gene Nohl (seated in the dive suit), Dr. Edgar End and a fourth unknown person looking in. The location is the Milwaukee County Emergency H...
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Lowering Diver Max Nohl into Lake Michigan in Preparation for a Record Deep Dive

Date: 04 10 1937
Description: On April 10th, 1937, Max Nohl (shown in the dive suit) along with John Craig made a dive on the shipwreck Norland in order to perform another early ...
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Testing the Experimental International HT-340 Tractor

Date: 1961
Description: An experimental International HT 340 tractor is being tested by a man wearing a helmet in an outdoor environment. Other men are standing in the background.
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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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Cray Tour

Date: 08 29 1995
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey touring the new Cray Computer facility. Obey had been involved in securing federal funding for the company.
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Technician Testing Dyes for Nylon Carpet

Date: 1970
Description: A female technician is at a workbench testing dyes for nylon carpet. The woman is wearing a white lab coat and apron, and has a beehive or bouffant hairsty...
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Medical Students and Cadaver

Date: 1896
Description: Group of medical students (?) and instructor (?) posed around a cadaver. Presented by Dr. John G. Meachem III of Racine, Wis. Probably a dissection class a...
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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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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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Two Women Catching Fish

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Description: Two young women wearing waders are standing in a creek or small river. One of the women is holding a net just above the water, while the other women is exa...
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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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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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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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Ice-Covered Truck in Cold Lab

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Description: A man is looking through a window towards another man in a cold lab testing a truck. Caption reads: "A parka-clad engineer braves thirty below zero tempera...

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