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Deering Works Electricity Lecture

Date: 1905
Description: A group of men sit at desks and listen to J. Newman from Deering Works give a lecture on electricity.
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Sir William Jackson Hooker, Botanist

Date: 1864
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), English botanist. Preceded his son, Joseph Dalton Hooker, as director of Kew Gardens. ...
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Hudson Auto Co. "Motor School"

Date: 02 19 1947
Description: Hudson Auto Co., 1134 E. Washington Avenue, holding a "motor school" to teach the use of Sun diagnostic equipment. Group of men in background, and front e...
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Thomas Meehan, Botanist

Date: 1869
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Thomas Meehan (1826-1902), American botanist. Meehan emigrated from England to Philadelphia in 1848. Served as editor...
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Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries

Date: 04 23 1947
Description: Director, Earl W. Barnhart, at his desk at the Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries, 502 State Street.
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Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries

Date: 04 23 1947
Description: Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries, 502 State Street. Students at tables, mostly men, with notebooks and calculators. A woman stands near the window wh...
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Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries

Date: 04 23 1947
Description: Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries, 502 State Street. Students are sitting in rows of desks and taking notes.
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Daniel Cady Eaton, Botanist

Date: 1864
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Daniel C. Eaton (1834-1895), American Botanist. In 1864 (the year of this photograph), Eaton became a professor of bo...
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Edward Tuckerman, Botanist and Artist

Date: 03 1870
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Professor Edward Tuckerman (1817-1886), American botanist and artist. Appointed professor of botany at Amherst Colleg...
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Peter Engelmann, Naturalist

Date: 1867
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Peter Engelmann (1823-1874), Wisconsin educator and naturalist. Engelman founded the German-English Academy in Milwau...
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Portrait of Agassiz and Agassiz

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Description: Carte-de-visite photomontage double portrait of the geologist and zoologist, Jean Louis Rudolphe Agassiz (1807-1873). Founded the Museum of Comparative Zoo...
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Reverend Joseph Blake, Botanist

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Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Reverend Joseph Blake (1814-1888), Maine-born reverend, professor and botanist. Published first catalogue of Maine Pl...
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Shorewood Hills Kindergarten Class

Date: 05 02 1947
Description: Thirteen students of the Shorewood Hills kindergarten class with their teacher posed in front of a train, constructed of paper and a large barrel, in the s...
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Professor Davenport Fisher, Chemist

Date: 1870
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Professor Davenport Fisher (1832-1911), Milwaukee chemist. After earning his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Heidelberg Unive...
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Dr. Jared Potter Kirtland, Geologist and Physician

Date: 1866
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite of Dr. Jared Potter Kirtland (1793-1877), American scientist. Kirtland, among many other exploits, worked on the 1837 Ohio geolog...
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Samuel Sterling Sherman, Educator

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Description: Cabinet card of Samuel Sterling Sherman (1815-1914), American educator. In 1842, Sherman became president of Howard College in Alabama, which was later ren...
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Professor Laurits Esmark, Zoologist

Date: 1858
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Laurits Esmark (1806-1884), Norwegian Zoologist. Esmark served as a professor of Zoology at Christiania University in...
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Professor Alexander Kerr, Classicist

Date: 1865
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Alexander Kerr (1828-1919), Scottish-born Professor of Greek at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Appointed to his...
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Professor Alexander Winchell, Geologist

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Description: Quarter-length carte-de-visite of Alexander Winchell (1824-1891), State Geologist of Michigan and Professor of Geology and Paleontology at the University o...
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John Tyndall, Philosopher

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Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of John Tyndall (1820-1893), Irish natural philosopher. Tyndall was one of the leading figures in Victorian science and a member o...

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