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| Date: | 04 1950 |
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| Description: | A girl on a swing is the subject of photographers demonstrating a technique using high speed flash. |
| Date: | 11 26 1940 |
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| Description: | A trio of druggists busy themselves in the laboratory with compounding materials for patient prescriptions. The pharmacists were employed with "The Pharmac... |
| Date: | 02 22 1957 |
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| Description: | Girls being weighed to determine their donations of a penny a pound to the YWCA camp. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 20 1956 |
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| Description: | Katharine Mather of the Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station checks a computer analysis of the composition of cement. |
| Date: | 01 10 1966 |
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| Description: | Gail Lukas' hair stands on end when she places her hand on a Van de Graalf generator in a demonstration by the Atomic Energy Commission for junior high sch... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Marquette University, School of Pharmacy, Class of 1912. Rial Herreman is identified as the third from the left in the back row. |
| Date: | 05 14 1963 |
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| Description: | Lunar trajectory paths and computations on a blackboard are discussed by employees of Milwaukee's Astronautics, Inc. |
| Date: | 02 28 1964 |
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| Description: | Two young boys work on a science project in a lab room. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Dr. A. Rudolph Silverston's vacu-aerial flying machine, as seen from the rear. Handwritten at top: "Rear View." Caption at bottom reads: "Silverston's Milw... |
| Date: | 02 27 1989 |
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| Description: | Student demonstrates his science project that tests the effectiveness of aspirin. |
| Date: | 07 31 1944 |
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| Description: | Kolmar Laboratories and surrounding commercial area on the east side of N. Broadway between E. Chicago and E. Buffalo Streets. There are parked automobiles... |
| Date: | 06 27 1937 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Works factory employee using a microscope to inspect diesel engine pump parts. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior of A.O. Smith Laboratories. Architects were Holabird and Root. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 10 1937 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Dr. Edgar End, Max Gene Nohl and John Craig (the "human guinea pigs") are shown inside the decompression chamber located at the Milwaukee County Emergency ... |
| Date: | 11 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Emil Andel of the American Bowling Congress demonstrates an automatic foul detector in a bowling alley. |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | Two men applying systemic fungicide to an American Elm on a residential street through a gravity-feed. |
| Date: | 07 21 1985 |
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| Description: | View of a man and a woman looking over a railing, with binoculars and a telescopic lens at hand. Caption reads: "Light keeper John Foote and researcher Lau... |
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