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Aldo Leopold

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Description: Aldo Leopold, UW Professor of Wildlife Management, posing with binoculars around his neck. He is about to embark on an inspection and bird-watching tour of...
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John R. Commons

Date: 1920
Description: John R. Commons, a University of Wisconsin professor, is shown standing outside Sterling Hall with his hat on the ground at his feet.
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Linguistic Exhibit

Date: 09 27 1934
Description: University of Wisconsin Professor Miles L. Hanley watching coeds Laura Severson and Theressa Fein, while they are working on transcriptions for a linguisti...
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Emma Goldman

Date: 03 27 1934
Description: Portrait of Emma Goldman, noted anarchist "Red Emma, Queen of the Anarchists," sitting in a chair. Goldman spoke at the University of Wisconsin at Madison ...
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Two Dolphin Club Girls

Date: 03 18 1931
Description: Two female Dolphin Club members in bathing suits take an acrobatic pose on the diving board of the Lathrop Hall pool.
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Dr. Claude Reading

Date: 09 02 1931
Description: Dr. Claude Reading, new director of the state veterinary control laboratory in Agriculture Hall at the University of Wisconsin, at work in his laboratory.
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Prof. C. Morse Huffer with Telescope

Date: 08 14 1931
Description: Prof. C. Morse Huffer is standing with the 20 foot telescope in the Washburn Observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Chemistry Laboratory

Date: 04 12 1928
Description: A man is measuring chemicals on an old scale in Ricketts laboratory at the Agriculture Chemistry Building, on the University of Wisconsin campus.
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Old Scale

Date: 04 12 1928
Description: View of a man taking Sodium Chloride (NaCl) out of a jar to measure it on an old scale on a table. The man is working in the Ricketts laboratory at the Agr...
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Toledo Scale

Date: 04 12 1928
Description: Man measuring chemical CaCO4 on Toledo Scale in Ricketts laboratory at Agriculture Chemistry Building, University of Wisconsin.
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Toledo Scale

Date: 04 12 1928
Description: Man taking chemical CaCO4 out of a jar to measure it on Toledo Scale in Ricketts laboratory at Agriculture Chemistry Building, University of Wisconsin.
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Winifred Bundy and Bill Morgan

Date: 08 04 1946
Description: Winifred Bundy, secretary of the School of Music at UW-Madison, and her uncle, Bill Morgan. Both recorded for song collector Helene Stratman-Thomas.
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President Fred, Oscar Rennebohm and Sensenbrenner

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Description: Seated from left to right are University of Wisconsin President E.B. Fred, Governor Oscar Rennebohm, and UW Board of Regents President F.J. Sensenbrenner.
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Margaret Strahl at a Piano

Date: 02 07 1955
Description: Margaret Strahl, senior at the University of Wisconsin School of Music, sitting at a grand piano at a benefit musicale sponsored by the Sigma Alpha Iota al...
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Student using Typewriter

Date: 01 17 1955
Description: Richard Jefferson completing his PhD thesis on a rented typewriter in the Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin.
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Arlie W. Schorger

Date: 02 20 1944
Description: Arlie W. Schorger, a chemist for the U.S. Bureau of Standards for one year, and at the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory for nine years, before joining the f...
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Emeritus Professor Cyril Methodius Jansky

Date: 03 28 1944
Description: Cyril Methodius Jansky, professor emeritus in electrical engineering, at the University of Wisconsin.
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Professor Eduardo Neale-Silva

Date: 08 07 1944
Description: Portrait of Eduardo Neale-Silva, professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Wisconsin. He was born in Talca, Chile, in 1905, and became a res...
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Ralph A. McCance and L.H. Adolfson

Date: 11 10 1944
Description: Ralph A. McCance, Assistant Professor of English, University of Wisconsin extension division, and on the right, L.H. Adolfson, Associate Director of the ex...
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Elizabeth Waters Hall Students Tea Committee

Date: 11 10 1944
Description: Three University of Wisconsin coeds of Elizabeth Waters Hall dormitory who have arranged for a tea and open house for facility members and friends. Standin...

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