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Increase Lapham Examining a Meteorite

Date: 1871
Description: Stereograph portrait of Increase Allen Lapham (1811-1875) examining the sixth fragment of a 33 lb. meteorite found in Trenton, Washington County, Wisconsin...
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Vote Recording Machine

Date: 1919
Description: Inventor, B.L. Boboroff, displays his vote recording device to members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Taste Test at Oscar Mayer

Date: 10 16 1945
Description: Slightly elevated view of men and women sitting around a table, sampling slices of Oscar Mayer meat products in the Oscar Mayer laboratory. A women in a lo...
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Anatomy Lab

Date: 1900
Description: Cadavers are laid out on gurneys in a sky-lit anatomy lab at Rush Medical College.
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Professor Philip G. Fox and Slot Machine

Date: 03 03 1945
Description: Philip G. Fox, 513 Virginia Terrace, professor of business administration at the University of Wisconsin, with a slot machine. Professor Fox is a well-kno...
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Microscopic Inspection of Diesel Pump Parts

Date: 06 27 1937
Description: Milwaukee Works factory employee using a microscope to inspect diesel engine pump parts.
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Senator Wiley and Missile Model

Date: 10 23 1962
Description: Senator Alexander Wiley posing with a model of a missile. Near him on the desk are an American Flag and a globe.
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Senator Wiley With Missile Model And Map Of Cuba

Date: 10 24 1962
Description: Senator Alexander Wiley posing with a model of a missile pointed at a map of Cuba.
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Dissection Class

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Description: Panoramic view of Roy Van Schaick's dissection class, probably at Marquette University. Only one woman is present. The other thirteen people are men. Five ...
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Medical Student in Laboratory

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Description: A view of a male medical student sitting on a chair facing toward the left. Behind him is a desk, and shelves full of instruments and bottles. A microscope...
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Steel Guitar Ace

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Description: Jack Penewell of Madison, originator of the twelve string Hawaiian guitar (or so his business card says), with another musician tentatively identified as T...
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Dr. Johan Augustus Bjorksten

Date: 04 21 1955
Description: Portrait of Dr. Johan Bjorksten, President-Treasurer of Bjorksten Research Laboratories for Industry Inc. The headline for the article on the front page of...
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Examining the Wisconsin Meteorite

Date: 1868
Description: Stereograph of Increase Lapham examining a fragment of a meteorite.
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Poultry Science

Date: 1925
Description: Group of ten people, both men and women, observing a researcher working in a laboratory with young chickens in a wire cage beneath a lamp. The researcher w...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

The American Spiritualist Masthead

Date: 1872
Description: Engraved masthead for The American Spiritualist depicting a seance over the word "phenomenal," a globe over the word "scientific," and a man at a de...
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University of Wisconsin Histological Laboratory

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view of a histological laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A group of students, men and women, are sitting around two tables in fro...
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Assaying Gold in Alaska

Date: 1901
Description: Dr. A.N. Kittelsen (left) seated at the table, his brother Bernhardt Kittelsen (right) seated on a fur covered bed, both of Stoughton, Wis. and Norman Torr...
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Gisholt Tech

Date: 12 15 1978
Description: NEW: View of a man sitting on a stool at a work table with a piece of machinery, probably at the Gisholt factory. He is wearing eyeglasses and is smoking ...
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Ear Test for Ears of Corn

Date: 1916
Description: Group of men working inside a large room with samples of corn. Original caption: "Several hundred bushels were given six kernels every ear test, the averag...
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Yellow Band Wiener Taste Testing

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Description: Slightly elevated view of men and women sitting around a table, sampling slices of Oscar Mayer meat products in the Oscar Mayer laboratory. A women in a lo...

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