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| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Elevated exterior view of Yerkes Observatory. Geneva Lake is in the background, left. Roads and sidewalks cross the sweeping, well tended lawns. The desi... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Downer College students working in a laboratory in which a human skeleton, a frog, a bat and stuffed birds are displayed. |
| Date: | 04 1950 |
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| Description: | A girl on a swing is the subject of photographers demonstrating a technique using high speed flash. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man demonstrates his unsuccessful bird wing-like mechanism, which was part of an experiment in aviation. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Professor Hull conducting an experiment at the Psychological laboratory of the University of Wisconsin. |
| 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: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the blacksmith shop at Walnut Grove farm where Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884) invented and built his first reaper in 1831. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for Mogul tractors featuring an elevated view of a Mogul 8-16, 12-25 and 30-60 tractors on a test track in Chicago, Illinois. Includes t... |
| Date: | 11 04 1940 |
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| Description: | Druggist J.F. Robinson staffs the pharmacy's "Information Desk," ready to take a prescription from a doctor over the telephone. The pharmacy championed t... |
| Date: | 06 08 1947 |
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| Description: | Druggist Joseph O' Donnell jots down some notes in his pharmacy's laboratory. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Dr. Stephen Babcock with an electric centrifuge butterfat tester. |
| Date: | 02 01 1947 |
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| Description: | Many toiletries, medicines, and sundries fill the cabinets on both sides of Hieber's Drugstore. Traditional glass label bottles line the back wall behind t... |
| Date: | 02 01 1947 |
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| Description: | Druggist Frank Stanish of Hieber's Drugstore measures and compounds a prescription. |
| Date: | 01 01 1947 |
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| Description: | Druggist Helen Rosenbaum's dispensary. |
| Date: | 04 21 1942 |
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| Description: | Druggist Stanley Meyers pauses while weighing a prescription on the pharmacy's scale. |
| Date: | 09 26 1946 |
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| Description: | Display in the window of a pharmacy, explaining what happens to uranium as atomic power is produced. |
| Date: | 04 30 1948 |
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| Description: | A trio of pharmacists consult one another about a prescription order. |
| Date: | 04 15 1949 |
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| Description: | Two pharmacists behind the prescription counter check the scale at the Pekin Prescription Shop. Cabinets of "sick room" supplies are on the left. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A group of pharmacists consult each other at one of the counters in the laboratory. Pictured are, from left to right: William Hays, Steve Kostyk, Urban Kor... |
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