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Students Conducting Scientific Research

Date: 1900
Description: Downer College students working in a laboratory in which a human skeleton, a frog, a bat and stuffed birds are displayed.
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Laboratory Experiment

Date: 1928
Description: Professor Hull conducting an experiment at the Psychological laboratory of the University of Wisconsin.
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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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Dr. Birge on Trout Lake

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Description: Dr. Edward Ashael Birge paddling on a raft in Trout Lake. In 1875 Dr. Birge first came to teach natural history at the University of Wisconsin, and remaine...
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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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Meteorologist Reading Wind Instrument

Date: 06 16 1931
Description: Albert Lorenz, assistant U.S. meteorologist, is reading a wind velocity instrument in the laboratory at North Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Barns on University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus

Date: 05 05 1931
Description: View across fence and field, looking through elm trees towards barns on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Club

Date: 03 07 1930
Description: Group portrait of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology club in the Beefeaters room in Memorial Union.
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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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Physics Equipment

Date: 09 12 1928
Description: Miles J. Martin laboratory equipment and Underwood typewriter used for thesis at the Physics building (Sterling Hall?) located on the University of Wiscons...
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Column Testing

Date: 09 1926
Description: Column failure testing at the University of Wisconsin Engineering Laboratory.
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Concrete Chimney Experiment

Date: 1926
Description: Concrete chimney experiment at the University of Wisconsin.
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Forest Products Laboratory

Date: 05 28 1972
Description: Exterior view of the facade of Forest Products Laboratory featuring white slatted window trimmings. The laboratory, maintained by the Forest Service of the...
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Sheep on Agricultural Campus

Date: 1900
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison Agricultural campus with sheep and a dairy barn in the background.
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B.B. Stoller Tending Mushroom Garden

Date: 09 19 1944
Description: B.B. Stoller tending the University of Wisconsin mushroom garden in the "hole in the ground" which is a bricked and vaulted recess located in the hillside ...
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Dorothy Johansson in University of Wisconsin Laboratory

Date: 02 23 1945
Description: Dorothy Johansson, research assistant in zoology at the University of Wisconsin, performing an experiment using white rats to check techniques being develo...
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Professor Philip G. Fox and Slot Machine

Date: 03 03 1945
Description: Philip G. Fox, 513 Virginia Terrace, professor of business administration at the University of Wisconsin, with a slot machine. Professor Fox is a well-kno...
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Pheasant Banding

Date: 03 07 1945
Description: Robert McCabe, University of Wisconsin Arboretum biologist, and Jim Hale, his assistant, study the band on one of the pheasants caught in the trap in the b...
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Gilson Metal Locator

Date: 03 15 1945
Description: Hulda Gieschen and Dr. Warren E. Gilson, who specializes in electro-physiology and medical electronics at the University of Wisconsin, are looking at a Gil...

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