Date: | 08 31 1939 |
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Description: | Solvit Chemical Co. sign nailed across two doors numbered 107 & 105, sign says: "Keep Out, Badger 4717 — Madison, Wis., 'Poison Gas' Fumigation." |
Date: | 08 06 1951 |
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Description: | "Kelly's Rat Cafeteria," cross section view of the interior and also the front view, taken for Solvit Chemical Company. |
Date: | 07 1938 |
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Description: | Loading a truck with bait at the county mixing station at Balsam Lake during the grasshopper outbreak in northwestern Wisconsin. |
Date: | 07 1938 |
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Description: | Grasshopper bait mixing station at Ellsworth. |
Date: | 08 22 1946 |
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Description: | Sherwin Williams Company, 340 State Street, window display of PESTROY-DDT, new brush-on liquid coating for screens, porches, basements, sills, thresholds, ... |
Date: | 07 30 1948 |
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Description: | Blaney Farms 4-H booth with display: "Fight Weed Thieves." Three young women and one young man are shown with a display of farm products. They are all hold... |
Date: | 10 31 1951 |
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Description: | A masked negative showing a rat trap, Kelly's "JUNIOR" RAT CAFETERIA, by the Solvit Chemical Company of Madison. |
Date: | 1946 |
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Description: | Cover of United States Department of the Interior Circular 11 entitled DDT: Its Effect on Fish and Wildlife by Clarence Cottam and Elmer Higgins. Th... |
Date: | 07 21 1957 |
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Description: | Letter from Harold Kruse, President of Citizens Natural Resources Association of Wisconsin, to L.P. Voigt of the Wisconsin Conservation Department regardin... |
Date: | |
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Description: | Container of Acme 5% DDT Dust for vegetables, fruit, flowers and household. |
Date: | |
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Description: | Can of Standard Insect Spray with DDT. The package features the Standard Oil logo. |
Date: | |
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Description: | Package of Blitz Fog Mosquito Control, which depicts a woman dispensing the product with a power fogger. |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | A group of students and a teacher are sitting at desks in a classroom while listening to a lesson on the dangers of house flies. Agricultural lecture chart... |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | A student is using a pointer to direct the attention of seated students toward a poster labeled "Life Cycle of a Fly" during a lesson on the dangers of hou... |
Date: | 01 17 1945 |
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Description: | Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. The red, green and black label features a drawing of a dead rat, with skull and cross... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | An International Harvester "sprayer" mounted on a wagon, possibly intended for pesticide application (or in this context, window washing?). The wagon is pa... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Two men are standing on top of what appears to be a sprayer, probably for use in orchards (though the urban setting suggests the possibility of other appli... |
Date: | 1955 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the Wil-Kil Pest Control building at 705 Williamson Street. The sign above the entrance features a rat and a cockroach depicted in neon. |
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Description: | Bumper sticker featuring a skull and crossbones supporting a ban on DDT. |
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Description: | Bumper sticker promoting the banning of DDT. |
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