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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Edward A. Birge and Chancey Juday with plankton trap in Lake Mendota. From album of photographs relating to the research in limnology conducted at Trout La... |
| 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: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Inventor, B.L. Boboroff, displays his vote recording device to members of the U.S. House of Representatives. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A professor checks the progress of several female students in a pharmaceutical laboratory course. |
| Date: | 02 17 1913 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Thomas Alva Edison in his lab where he worked on his "talking moving machine." |
| 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: | 06 1914 |
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| Description: | The Aerodome, invented by Samuel Langley, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, as reconstructed by Glenn Curtiss at Hammondsport. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Girl selling vegetables to a customer at vegetable stand along Milwaukee pike. Original caption reads: "The little girl in charge sold over $800 worth of v... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The Curtiss Pusher owned by Arthur Pratt Warner of Beloit, the first man to fly in Wisconsin and the first person to purchase an airplane. Slightly below ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Dr. E.A. Birge in his element, reading an anemometer of the weather data station on Green Lake. |
| Date: | 06 12 1917 |
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| Description: | Engineering photograph of a man field testing a limited production motor cultivator. Original caption reads: "... the 1916 motor cultivator with the additi... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Man operating an experimental McCormick motor-driven grain binder in a field. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison Home Economics Department Class. The women are using chemistry equipment and microscopes. On the blackboard is a formula fo... |
| Date: | 05 17 1916 |
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| Description: | Men gathered outdoors around a cotton picking machine exhibited at the National Implement and Vehicle Association Meeting. |
| Date: | 11 05 1911 |
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| Description: | A diver and team working to inspect the coffer dam for underwater damage caused by flooding. |
| Date: | 04 12 1912 |
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| Description: | A diver posing with other workmen at the power dam construction site prior to assessing underwater damage. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Men baling hay with a hay press inside the open door of a barn. One man is weighing a bale in the foreground. Another well-dressed man appears to be a visi... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A boy at Mount Prospect High School testing corn as part of the Cook County School Home Project. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A group of children from Mount Prospect High School standing around a table in a classroom to conduct corn testing while their instructor is looking on fro... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Men work at tables in the Corn Testing Station conducted by Black Hawk County Crop Improvement Association. Corn cobs are held in wire storage racks along ... |
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