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German Scientist with Test Tube

Date: 1880
Description: Illustration of a scientist in his lab gazing at a test tube, with a caption in German that translates to "Eureka! I have found it!".
Photograph

Horlick Mountains, Antarctica

Date: 
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...
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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...
Photograph

Ventilator Testing Cabinet

Date: 11 05 1954
Description: Man operating a ventilator testing cabinet at W.R. Carnes Company.
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Ventilator Testing Cylinder

Date: 11 05 1954
Description: Man operating a ventilator testing cylinder at W.R. Carnes Company.
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Carnes Company Testing Room

Date: 11 05 1954
Description: Man standing on a platform ladder adjusting a ceiling ventilator in the testing room at W.R. Carnes Company, wide angle view.
Print

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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Chemical Laboratory

Date: 1944
Description: Gertrude Satina weighs a piece of steel in the chemical laboratory at the International Harvester Company. The original caption reads: "This photo shows th...
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University of Wisconsin Cancer Research Grant Recipients

Date: 03 25 1952
Description: University of Wisconsin cancer research scientists who received grants from the Wisconsin division of the American Cancer Society are: Seated (left to righ...
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Fighting Dutch Elm Disease

Date: 1974
Description: Two men applying systemic fungicide to an American Elm on a residential street through a gravity-feed.
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Muscular Dystrophy Research at University of Wisconsin Hospitals

Date: 08 15 1953
Description: International scientists work alongside two American researchers on the University of Wisconsin Hospitals muscular dystrophy research project. Pictured lef...
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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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Taking Oxygen Samples

Date: 02 1977
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...
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Paper Chemical Laboratory

Date: 1922
Description: Interior view of two unidentified male scientists working with various paper testing apparatus in the corner of a chemical laboratory.
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Kimberly Clark Paper Testing Station

Date: 1922
Description: View of an unidentified male scientist looking into boxed paper apparatus, surrounded by other measuring tools and scales, in the corner of a Kimberly Clar...
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Chemistry Lab at Oscar Mayer

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of two men in a chemistry lab with glass block walls. The men are standing in front of two different wet bench lab tables, and are working on...
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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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Air Quality Monitoring

Date: 01 15 1959
Description: Robert Butler, a public health technologist with the city health department, is examining a used filter. He is atop the second floor of the City-County bui...
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 25 1959
Description: Working with two West High students in a chemical research laboratory of the U. W. Medical School, is Dr. Anna Maria Williams, center. At left, Mary Sedgwi...
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 25 1959
Description: Demonstrating a research procedure to high school female students at a U.W. chemistry research laboratory is Dr. Carolyn Abrahams, left. Barbara Swanson, ...

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