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| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men harvesting grain with a McCormick-Deering 12 foot experimental combine (harvester-thresher) pulled by a Farmall M tractor. There is a ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Dr. E.A. Birge in his element, reading an anemometer of the weather data station on Green Lake. |
| Date: | 06 16 1931 |
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| 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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| Description: | Unidentified explorer standing in field of snow with the Horlick Mountains of Antarctica in the background. The Horlick Mountains were named by Admiral Ric... |
| Date: | 1865 |
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| Description: | Map showing the location of meteorological stations and effects that Lake Michigan has had on Wisconsin temperatures in January and July. The map shows cou... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Trucks mounting a steep grade in the testing track at International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used by Inte... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View of International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used by International Harvester through the 1970's to test... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Sigurd Olson, left, traveling by dogsled with game hunter Uiho Salminen as part of his study of predator control for his master's degree. |
| Date: | 03 30 1933 |
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| Description: | A man in a field holds a very large kite just prior to launching it. On the kite is painted the number 43 and "Property of the U.S. Weather Bureau." He is ... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | This map is one of the earliest weather maps of the United States, which traced an 1859 storm across the continent. Manuscript annotations in red ink show ... |
| Date: | 02 1977 |
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| Description: | A man is kneeling on the ice and snow at Potter's Lake. He is running a machine that is testing the oxygen levels in the water, while recording the results... |
| Date: | 02 07 1958 |
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| Description: | Fred Hatch (32), U.S. Weather Bureau technician, will be returning to a small island near the North Pole to conduct experiments on solar energy, insulation... |
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| Description: | A man is looking through a window towards another man in a cold lab testing a truck. Caption reads: "A parka-clad engineer braves thirty below zero tempera... |
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| Description: | Dr. Edward Birge (left) and Chancey Juday (center) do limnology research on the ice with a mud thermometer. |
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