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McCormick Works Paint(?) Laboratory

Date: 1900
Description: Technicians standing and sitting in the paint(?) laboratory at the McCormick Reaper Works factory. Tables are equipped with burners, beakers and other supp...
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Charles W. Short, Botanist

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Description: Engraved portrait of Charles W. Short (1794-1863), Kentucky botanist. Worked at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, 1825-38. The plant genus ...
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Moisture Controller

Date: 12 20 1943
Description: Research engineer A.B. Welty stands next to the moisture controlling device at International Harvester Company's farm machinery engineering department. The...
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Research Engineer Carl Mott

Date: 1944
Description: The original photograph caption reads: "Carl Mott, research engineer in International Harvester Company's farm engineering machinery department in Chicago,...
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Testing Paint Thinner at McCormick Works

Date: 1939
Description: Two men determine the distillation range of paint thinner in the Paint Department of McCormick Works (factory).
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Damon Runyon Memorial Fund for Cancer Research

Date: 07 06 1950
Description: Rex Karney (left), associate editor of the Wisconsin State Journal (left), presents a check for $10,000 to Dr. W.D. Middleton for cancer research at...
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A.E.D. Office

Date: 04 1923
Description: A group of men and women sitting at desks while working in International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department office. The women in the foreground ...
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Cliff Lord with the Cudahy Papers

Date: 05 1953
Description: Dr. Clifford L. Lord posed standing examining large bound volumes from the Cudahy papers in the collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
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Examining the Wisconsin Meteorite

Date: 1868
Description: Stereograph of Increase Lapham examining a fragment of a meteorite.
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Geiger Counters Presented to University of Wisconsin

Date: 08 09 1957
Description: Richard C. Emmons (left), Professor of Geology at U.W., being presented thirteen Geiger counters and scintillation counters by E.L. Diener, manager of the ...
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U.W. Madison Earth Satellite Project

Date: 12 08 1957
Description: Image shows seven men in a U.W. research lab posing with a life-sized model of a satellite. Professor Verner Suomi of the meteorology department led a team...

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