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Photographers Learn How to Shoot a Crime Scene

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Description: Elevated view of photographers being instructed on how to shoot a crime scene. A teacher is demonstrating photographic techniques while a group of students...
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Mr. Moser's Barber Class

Date: 09 20 1934
Description: Mr. Dallas Moser, vocational school instructor, pointing to a customer's hair while students from his barber class are looking on.
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Barber Science Class

Date: 08 27 1929
Description: Students in the first class in Barber Science with instructor, Chester Feavel, pointing at an anatomy chart.
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Teachers Picket

Date: 11 08 1967
Description: Teachers protest the lack of a "concrete offer" for a new contract in front of the Milwaukee vocational school.
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Stephen Gilman at Desk

Date: 05 26 1947
Description: Professor Stephen Gilman seated at his desk, piled with books.
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University of Wisconsin School for Workers

Date: 07 1945
Description: University of Wisconsin School for Workers, group of students and teacher standing, looking at bulletin board with list of classes/topics. In 1945 the U...
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Philo Romayne Hoy, Ornithologist

Date: 1874
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Dr. Philo R. Hoy (1816-1892), Wisconsin ornithologist and entomologist. Settled in Racine with his family in 1846. Served as pr...
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Oliver Marcy, Naturalist

Date: 1865
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Oliver Marcy (1820-1899), American educator and natural scientist. In 1862, he became professor and chair of the natural histor...
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Edward Hitchcock, Geologist and Theologian

Date: 1869
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Edward Hitchcock (1793-1864), American educator and geologist. Hitchcock served as the third president of Amherst College from ...
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Professor Benjamin Silliman, Chemist

Date: 1865
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864), notable American professor of science. He served for many years as a professor of Chemistry and ...
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Professor Alexander Winchell, Geologist

Date: 1869
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait photograph of Alexander Winchell (1824-1891), former state geologist of Michigan and professor of Geology and Paleontology at the ...
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Joseph H. McChesney, Geologist

Date: 1864
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Professor Joseph H. McChesney, a geologist and paleontologist associated with the Illinois State Geological Survey. Shown here ...
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Benjamin Kendall Emerson, Geologist

Date: 1867
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of B.K. Emerson (1837-1928), professor of Minerology and Geology at Amherst College. Handwritten inscription at the bottom reads, ...
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Professor Josiah Dwight Whitney, Geologist

Date: 1864
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Josiah D. Whitney (1819-1896), professor of Geology at Harvard University (1865-96), and chief of the Californa Geological Surv...
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Professor Ezra S. Carr, Geologist

Date: 1866
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Ezra S. Carr, geologist and California State Superintendent. He held chemistry professorships at various institution...
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Professor Pierre Jean Édouard Desor, Geologist

Date: 1865
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Édouard Desor (1811-1882), Swiss geologist and professor at Neuchâtel academy. He chiefly studied the structure of glaciers an...
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Professor W.W. Daniels, Geologist

Date: 1872
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Professor W.W. Daniels, University of Wisconsin geologist. Daniels worked as one of Increase Lapham's assistants during the Wis...
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Teachers Boarding a Northwest Airlines DC-3 Airplane

Date: 01 23 1947
Description: Area teachers attending an aviation education program boarding a Northwest Airlines DC-3 plane at Truax Field along with some members of the flight crew.
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Chester Dewey, Botanist

Date: 01 30 1865
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Chester Dewey (1784-1867), American Congregational minister, educator, and scientist. Served as Rochester University's first p...
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Sir William Jackson Hooker, Botanist

Date: 1864
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Sir William Jackson Hooker (1785-1865), English botanist. Preceded his son, Joseph Dalton Hooker, as director of Kew Gardens. ...

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