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| Date: | 10 19 1931 |
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| Description: | Edison kinetascope, patented in 1897, one of the first motion picture projectors invented by Thomas A. Edison. It is hand cranked and chain driven. |
| Date: | 09 09 1931 |
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| Description: | Lab worker conducting a test at the Oscar Mayer laboratory. |
| Date: | 09 02 1931 |
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| Description: | Dr. Claude Reading, new director of the state veterinary control laboratory in Agriculture Hall at the University of Wisconsin, at work in his laboratory. |
| Date: | 08 19 1931 |
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| Description: | A large Grifola frondosus or cabbage mushroom, 10" high and 14" by 28" thick, weighing 36 pounds, being weighed on a Toledo scale, was found growing betwee... |
| 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: | 05 20 1931 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a Toledo Computogram scale on a counter in a Dodgeville store, with the grocer weighing bananas. In the background is a display of merchan... |
| Date: | 05 20 1931 |
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| Description: | View of Anglidle scale in Dodgeville store showing grocer weighing bananas. Merchandise is on display on the counter and on shelves in the background. |
| Date: | 04 23 1931 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Avenue Food Shop, located at 2427 University Avenue, with stacks of canned goods and a woman employee using a Toledo scale. |
| Date: | 04 23 1931 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Avenue Food Shop, 2427 University Avenue, with a woman weighing items on an old balance beam scale. |
| Date: | 04 06 1931 |
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| Description: | A group of four women medical students wearing laboratory coats at Wisconsin General hospital. Left to right, Mrs. A.F. Kyhos is sitting at a microscope w... |
| Date: | 03 07 1931 |
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| Description: | Four laboratory workers in the Madison General Hospital laboratory. Three women are working at a counter near microscopes. A man is leaning against a coun... |
| Date: | 01 31 1931 |
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| Description: | Toledo scale outside Strand Theatre, 16 E. Mifflin Street. "Your weight free" advertising the movie "Reducing." On the right is a poster for the movie "Pai... |
| Date: | 01 30 1931 |
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| Description: | Lillian Rice (aka Loretta La Boze), 18 of Janesville, in man's clothing with police matron, Pearl Shaughnessy, at the Police Station. Lillian was arrested ... |
| Date: | 11 15 1929 |
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| Description: | A worker weighing a wheel of cheese on a balance scale for the National Cheese Products Federation. |
| Date: | 11 15 1929 |
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| Description: | A worker weighs a wheel of cheese on a Toledo scale for the National Cheese Products Federation. |
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