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Fisherman Lester Shore

Date: 04 09 1948
Description: Police Officer Lester Shore, holding a "River Shiner" fishing lure, for which he holds a patent. It is a casting plug that has a metal lip and shaft and im...
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McCardle Memorial Laboratory for Cancer Research

Date: 05 04 1948
Description: Dr. Harold P. Rusch, right, director of the McArdle Memorial Laboratory for cancer research, is shown with R.O. McLean, Madison, executive director, Wiscon...
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Emerson Elementary School Science Room

Date: 05 13 1948
Description: Fourth graders at Emerson Elementary School, 2421 East Johnson Street, shown using microscopes in the school's science room. Left to right: David Meng, Tom...
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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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Forest Products Laboratory Workers Honored

Date: 04 24 1948
Description: Forest Products Laboratory workers are honored in a ceremony. They received a silver superior service award in recognition of laboratory employees during W...
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Babcock Ceremony

Date: 1928
Description: Crowd seated on the lawn of Agriculture Hall on the University of Wisconsin-Madison for a ceremony honoring S.M. Babcock, inventor of the butter test.
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Home Economics Lab Class

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Description: Laboratory work in a University of Wisconsin home economics class.
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Home Economics Lab

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Description: Home economics laboratory class at the University of Wisconsin.
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University of Wisconsin Home Economics Class

Date: 10 28 1948
Description: University of Wisconsin home economics student Mrs. Hazel (Jobelle) Shands, Eagles Heights, researching ways to protect home-rendered lard from going ranci...
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University of Wisconsin Home Economics Class

Date: 10 28 1948
Description: University of Wisconsin home economics student Charlene Bishop, making pancakes in a laboratory.
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University of Wisconsin Home Economics Class

Date: 10 28 1948
Description: University of Wisconsin home economics graduate student Louise Page, Payson, Utah, using a meat tenderness machine to test a sample of meat.
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University of Wisconsin Home Economics Class

Date: 10 28 1948
Description: Four University of Wisconsin home economics students taste testing food samples in a home economics laboratory. Left to right: Louise Page, Payson, Utah; M...
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Professor Dorothy Hussemann and Student

Date: 01 14 1949
Description: Dorothy Hussemann, associate professor of home economics at the University of Wisconsin, (left) addressing her class on the technique of weighing meat. At ...
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U.S. Army Students at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Date: 02 18 1949
Description: U.S. Army Major Herbert Crecelius of the army chemical corps studying agricultural bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is in a lab coat...
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Old Science Hall

Date: 1884
Description: View across Park Street of Science Hall building after the fire of December 1, 1884, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The building's exterior...
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Science Hall

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Description: Front view of Science Hall, looking west down Langdon Street on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A horse-drawn laundry vehicle is visible at the...
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Old Science Hall

Date: 1884
Description: View from Bascom Hill towards the west facade of the original Science Hall building (1876-1884) on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus after the fir...
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Trash Disposal

Date: 03 14 1949
Description: Mrs. Edith Trowbridge, 4202 Mandan Cresent, pulls a ring on a string which opens a trap door to a metal-lined slide to a basement trash box under her sink ...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Weigh-In

Date: 07 23 1949
Description: Ted Ryan being weighed with his racing car. Their combined weight was just under the 250-pound limit. Left to right are Weighmaster Frankie Meyers, 1948 Ma...
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Skaters on Lake Mendota

Date: 1890
Description: View in winter from Lake Mendota of skaters near shoreline of the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Science Hall and the Chemical Laboratory building...

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