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Diagram of McCormick's Reaper

Date: 1867
Description: A diagram of McCormick's cultivator-reaper, which was patented in 1845. The illustration, titled "The Cultivator" depicts a man using a rake to remove the ...
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Smokey Bear with School Children

Date: 1954
Description: A man dressed in a Smokey Bear costume is standing with two Milwaukee school children. A young girl is sitting at a desk, and a boy is standing and holding...
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High Cholesterol Diet

Date: 03 17 1955
Description: Science fair entry using animals to test a high cholesterol diet against a control diet.
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Teacher and Girls Looking at Chart

Date: 10 12 1935
Description: Teacher and two girls looking at rat growth chart.
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Dr. Claude Reading

Date: 09 02 1931
Description: Dr. Claude Reading, new director of the state veterinary control laboratory in Agriculture Hall at the University of Wisconsin, at work in his laboratory.
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Man Weighing Chickens

Date: 07 30 1929
Description: Man weighing chickens on a Toledo scale at the Southern Wisconsin Produce Company, located at 638-40 West Main Street.
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Weighing Kittens

Date: 07 1905
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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Passenger Pigeon

Date: 1896
Description: A passenger pigeon on a perch. The passenger pigeon is now extinct. Part of a group of pigeons that lived in captivity in the aviary of Professor C.O. Whit...
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Passenger Pigeon: Profile View with Shadow

Date: 1896
Description: Profile view of a passenger pigeon, a species of pigeon now extinct, with its shadow projected on the wall of the cage behind. Part of a group of pigeons t...
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Mastodon

Date: 06 18 1972
Description: A Mastodon Americanus Cuvier on display in the Science and Natural History Museum in Science Hall on Langdon and Park Streets at the University of Wisconsi...
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Carousel Bear on Cub Tractor at Museum of Science and Industry

Date: 1947
Description: The "Carousel Bear" sitting astride a Farmall Cub tractor at the Harvester Farm exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry.
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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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Pheasant Banding

Date: 03 07 1945
Description: Robert McCabe, University of Wisconsin Arboretum biologist, and Jim Hale, his assistant, study the band on one of the pheasants caught in the trap in the b...
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Commercial Building in Milwaukee

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Description: Northeast corner of N. 2nd and W. Michigan streets with the James G. Brazell Printing and C.W. St. John Labor Agency businesses. A man is standing at a fru...
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Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

Date: 01 1948
Description: Two men in a laboratory weighing rats at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
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Reaper Centennial Medallion

Date: 1931
Description: Reverse side of the International Harvester reaper centennial medallion (or coin) showing the reaper in use, and the words: "Centennial of the Reaper, 1891...
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Emerson Elementary School Science Room

Date: 04 13 1948
Description: Fourth grade students at Emerson Elementary School, 2421 East Johnson Street, shown examining stuffed birds in the school's science room. Left to right: Da...
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Weighing Cotton

Date: 1920
Description: Men weigh(?) bales of cotton on a wooden platform, while other men load or unload bales onto a wagon drawn by mules.
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Men with Cotton Bales

Date: 1920
Description: Men lead two mules in hauling a wagon full of cotton bales near what appears to be a weighing station on a wooden platform.
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Cotton Bales on Wagon

Date: 1920
Description: Two men place a bale of cotton on top of a pile on the back of a mule-drawn wagon. They are near what appears to be a weighing station on a wooden platform...

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