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| Description: | Dr. Edward Ashael Birge reading a sun machine inside a car. In 1875 Dr. Birge first came to teach natural history at the University of Wisconsin, and remai... |
| 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: | 03 05 1929 |
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| Description: | Tank moving up the ramp at Hydraulics Laboratory, 660 N. Park Street, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| Date: | 03 03 1929 |
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| Description: | Tank at Hydraulics Laboratory, 660 N. Park Street, moving half way up the ramp, taken from below showing end of tank, at the University of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 03 05 1929 |
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| Description: | Tank at Hydraulics Laboratory, 660 N. Park Street, before moving up the ramp. Taken from hill looking toward Lake Mendota, at the University of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 03 05 1929 |
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| Description: | Tank at Hydraulics Laboratory, 660 N. Park Street, before moving up the ramp. Taken from below showing end of tank, at the University of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 03 05 1929 |
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| Description: | New tank in place at Hydraulics Laboratory, 660 N. Park Street. Taken from below, at the University of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man sets up a cone-shaped instrument designed to distill fresh water from salt water as he leans out of a small motor boat on the water. |
| 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Observatory building on hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Lake Mendota and Picnic Point are in the background. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of Science Hall and the Chemical Laboratory building, looking southwest from Lake Mendota on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. On the shorel... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of campus looking southwest from Lake Mendota on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The Chemical Laboratory is in the center and Sc... |
| 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: | 1967 |
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| Description: | NASA towboat, the "Clermont", pulling a liquid oxygen tank in the canal system of the Mississippi Test Support Department. Original caption reads (in part)... |
| Date: | 07 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Three teen boys work together to build up the side of the creek to stop the flowing water from washing the soil away on an edge of Black Earth Creek west o... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View from rocky shoreline of the launching of the "Monona-Mobile" (pontoon car) onto Lake Monona. The boat launch is on the left. "11248" is painted on the... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the "Monona-Mobile" (pontoon car) on Lake Monona, close to a pier on the left where a man is standing and watching. Buildings on ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A group of men are standing on the pontoons of the "Monona-Mobile" (pontoon car) which is near a pier on the left. The Wisconsin State Capitol is in the fa... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Unidentified man wearing a suit and a bow tie is standing on a pontoon of the "Monona-Mobile" (pontoon car) and holding the tow rope. Across the lake is th... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View across water of three men relaxing on the pontoons of the "Monona-Mobile." Two men are sitting in the front seat of the car. John "Commodore" Heggesta... |
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