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Weldering, Agricultural Short Course

Date: 1950
Description: Two students welding at the University of Wisconsin Agricultural Short Course.
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Nutrition Lab

Date: 1931
Description: Two students work in the nutrition lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Navy Cooks and Bakers Group

Date: 09 09 1943
Description: Ten Navy cooks and bakers watching meat carving demonstration by Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef. Soldiers include Robert W. Merryman, Vernon R....
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Nursery School Group

Date: 07 14 1933
Description: Five children are washing dishes at the Dorothy Roberts nursery school at the University of Wisconsin Home Economics practice cottage.
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University of Wisconsin Tent Colony Officers

Date: 06 28 1933
Description: Group portrait of eight male University of Wisconsin tent colony officers. One man is holding a gun, and another is holding a shovel. The camp is also know...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletes Digging at Camp Randall

Date: 08 06 1931
Description: Five University of Wisconsin-Madison athletes (L. to R. Walter Gnabah, Russel Rebholz, George Wright, McClure Thompson, and William Eller) shoveling dirt a...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletes Digging

Date: 08 06 1931
Description: Five University of Wisconsin-Madison athletes (L. to R. Walter Gnabah, Russel Rebholz, George Wright, McClure Thompson, and William Eller) shoveling dirt a...
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Steeplejacks Repointing Chimney

Date: 08 05 1931
Description: Steeplejacks Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, in the cap, repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. The photograph was...
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Steeplejacks Repointing Chimney

Date: 08 05 1931
Description: Close-up of Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, wearing the cap, steeplejacks repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. P...
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Tent at Tent Colony

Date: 06 27 1931
Description: Man sawing wood in front of a tent in the woods at the University of Wisconsin Tent Colony. The tent is set up on a wood platform. Also known as Camp Galli...
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UW-Madison Mechanical Engineering Building Construction

Date: 09 07 1930
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison Mechanical Engineering Building at 1513 University Avenue under construction. Men are working on the steel framework. A mas...
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Toledo Scale

Date: 07 30 1929
Description: A man reads a Toledo scale at the University of Wisconsin engineering building.
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Scales

Date: 07 30 1929
Description: A man reading a scale at the University of Wisconsin engineering building.
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Tanks at Hydraulics Laboratory

Date: 09 26 1928
Description: Tanks at Hydraulics Laboratory, 660 N. Park Street, before moving, taken from west on cribbing, at the University of Wisconsin.
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Gem Cutter

Date: 1950
Description: Arthur Virthaler, professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the studio with materials and tools for making jewelry. He was known for sim...
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Lincoln Terrace

Date: 1952
Description: Lincoln Terrace on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Unveiled in 1909, the Lincoln Statue was created by sculptor Adolf Weinman of Hodgenville, K...
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Excavation of Goose Effigy on University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus

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Description: Charles E. Brown (left), directs excavation of a goose effigy mound at the Willow Drive mound group on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Wisconsin Historical Society Architectural Exhibit

Date: 03 27 1945
Description: Professor J.F. Kienitz, on the left, and Edward J. Law, committee member of the Historic American Buildings Survey in Wisconsin, examining a miniature mode...
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Picnic Point Work Day

Date: 04 28 1945
Description: Annual University of Wisconsin-Madison student work day project located at Picnic Point. Uprooting a tree stump, left to right are: Ronald Giblin, Leatrice...
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Picnic Point Work Day Blue Jeans King And Queen

Date: 04 28 1945
Description: Annual University of Wisconsin-Madison student work day project located at Picnic Point. Shown posing together are the chosen "blue jeans" king and queen f...

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