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| Description: | Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey circus performers gathered in front of a circus tent to view a solar eclipse. Some are wearing protective eyeglasses. |
| 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 16 1931 |
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| Description: | Albert Lorenz, assistant U.S. meteorologist, is reading a wind velocity instrument in the laboratory at North Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| Date: | 07 16 1931 |
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| Description: | Potentiometer Thermometer being read by Albert Lorenz, assistant meteorologist, U.S. Weather Bureau, North Hall, University of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Trucks mounting a steep grade in the testing track at International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used by Inte... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View of International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used by International Harvester through the 1970's to test... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Five men pose with the first successful four-wheel drive vehicle, which was made in Clintonville in 1909. The inventor, Otto Zachow, is the man seated at t... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson, left, traveling by dogsled with game hunter Uiho Salminen as part of his study of predator control for his master's degree. |
| Date: | 03 30 1933 |
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| Description: | A man in a field holds a very large kite just prior to launching it. On the kite is painted the number 43 and "Property of the U.S. Weather Bureau." He is ... |
| Date: | 02 20 1960 |
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| Description: | Mike Merkle, left, packs away his catch after weighing in at the annual Yahara Fisherman's Club Percharee on Lake Mendota. With Mike are his sister, Marcia... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of timber mechanics outdoors at the Forest Products Laboratory. |
| Date: | 02 1977 |
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| Description: | A man is kneeling on the ice and snow at Potter's Lake. He is running a machine that is testing the oxygen levels in the water, while recording the results... |
| Date: | 11 19 1957 |
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| Description: | Law enforcement officials escorting Ed Gein to the State Crime Lab, 917 University Avenue, for lie detector and other tests. |
| Date: | 02 07 1958 |
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| Description: | Fred Hatch (32), U.S. Weather Bureau technician, will be returning to a small island near the North Pole to conduct experiments on solar energy, insulation... |
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| Description: | A man is looking through a window towards another man in a cold lab testing a truck. Caption reads: "A parka-clad engineer braves thirty below zero tempera... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Biological Laboratory in Antarctica. |
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