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Home Made Rocket

Date: 03 14 1958
Description: Overhead view of Bill Putnam (left) and Bill Diehl, juniors at Edgewood High School, with the two-stage rocket they made. They are awaiting permission to l...
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Madison Youth with Telescopic Equipment

Date: 04 10 1958
Description: A group of Madison youth inspecting and setting up their telescopic equipment for gazing at the skies. This photograph accompanied an article about the gro...
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Antarctic Explorers Dr. Edward Thiel and John Behrendt

Date: 06 12 1958
Description: Antarctic explorers Dr. Edward Thiel (left) and John Behrendt (right) recently returned from a year long stay in Antarctica. Dr. Thiel was the co-leader of...
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National Forest Products Research Society Conference

Date: 06 24 1958
Description: Three attendees at the National Forest Products Research Society conference are Richard Haussman, U.S. Forest Service; John Lutz, Forest Products Laborator...
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U.W. Co-Ed Engineering Student Lynn Stodola

Date: 09 30 1958
Description: Lynn Stodola (L), Black River Falls, one of the few female students studying at the U.W. College of Engineering at the time, and Kenneth Joslin (R), Racine...
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Keeping Animals Healthy at the Henry Vilas Zoo

Date: 12 10 1958
Description: Harold Hayes, zoo director, and veterinarian Dr. A.M. McDonald discuss findings shown under the microscope at the Henry Vilas Zoo.
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Air Quality Monitoring

Date: 01 15 1959
Description: A man is putting an 8 x 10 filter into an envelope to be sent to "a U.S. Public Health Service laboratory in Cincinnati for analysis". The filter changed f...
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Air Quality Monitoring

Date: 01 15 1959
Description: Robert Butler, a public health technologist with the city health department, is examining a used filter. He is atop the second floor of the City-County bui...
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Math Research Center Dedication

Date: 04 23 1959
Description: Three men who figured prominently in the dedication of the Mathematics Research Center are shown talking before the ceremonies. Left to right: Wilbur Renk...
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 25 1959
Description: Working with two West High students in a chemical research laboratory of the U. W. Medical School, is Dr. Anna Maria Williams, center. At left, Mary Sedgwi...
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 25 1959
Description: Demonstrating a research procedure to high school female students at a U.W. chemistry research laboratory is Dr. Carolyn Abrahams, left. Barbara Swanson, ...
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 25 1959
Description: Working with a high school student in a U.W. Department of Medical Biology chemical research laboratory is Dr. Billie Padgett, left. At right Lucy helps to...
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 31 1959
Description: Demonstrating the Navy Research laboratory's electronic computer to a high school student is, seated, experimental physicist, Dr. Anneke Levelt. Dr. Levelt...
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Satellite Flashing Across Madison Sky

Date: 08 15 1960
Description: The diagonal streak of Echo, a communications satellite, as it passed over Madison shortly after eleven PM. The image was made with the 35mm camera shutter...

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