Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Text on front reads: "The 40-inch telescope of the University of Chicago Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, Wisconsin. The object-glass has a diameter of 40... |
Date: | 08 19 1948 |
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Description: | Text on front reads: "Telescope with 40 in. Lens, Largest in the World. Williams Bay on Lake Geneva, Wisconsin." On reverse: "The 40 inch telescope of the ... |
Date: | 02 1966 |
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Description: | A circular stone and cement sundial in a snowy yard. |
Date: | 04 10 1958 |
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Description: | A group of Madison youth inspecting and setting up their telescopic equipment for gazing at the skies. This photograph accompanied an article about the gro... |
Date: | 07 23 1932 |
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Description: | Elevated view of Vera Ford standing beside a sundial in her garden at 843 Farwell Drive. |
Date: | 12 22 1953 |
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Description: | From the observation window, G.M. Femrite is fixing his binocular field glasses on an incoming plane at the Truax Field control tower. |
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Description: | Building with three levels, a porch and two balconies across the front of the house, a roof, and a man with a telescope in a belvedere in the center of the... |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | Telescope at Washburn Observatory with man at controls. |
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Description: | Aldo Leopold, UW Professor of Wildlife Management, posing with binoculars around his neck. He is about to embark on an inspection and bird-watching tour of... |
Date: | 1936 |
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Description: | A view of Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Lake Geneva. It was the "largest refracting telescope in the world," according to "Wisconsin: A Guide To The ... |
Date: | 1863 |
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Description: | Muir's illustration of a means to record time by use of a star. He titled the drawing "The star hand rising and setting with the sun all the year". |
Date: | 07 20 1945 |
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Description: | Gene Charmley, boy scout, applying rouge to the pitch lay upon which he is about to begin polishing for an 8-inch lens used in the reflector type telescope... |
Date: | 07 20 1945 |
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Description: | Robert Burkhalter, a life Boy Scout member of Troop 5, standing next to the telescope he built and mounted in his backyard, 105 Cambridge Road, Shorewood H... |
Date: | 07 20 1945 |
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Description: | Jack Burkhalter, nine-year old Cub Scout, grinding and polishing a lens for the telescope he is building. Jack may be the nation's youngest amateur telesco... |
Date: | 11 08 1926 |
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Description: | Large telescope at University of Wisconsin Washburn Observatory. |
Date: | 11 08 1926 |
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Description: | Small telescope at University of Wisconsin-Madison Washburn Observatory. |
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Description: | Exterior of "Old Main" at the State Normal School, founded in 1868. The view features a main entrance flanked by columns. A statue and a sundial stand on ... |
Date: | 09 19 1950 |
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Description: | Mary Walker, vice-president of the Audubon Society; Gratia Stavrum, Alan Keitt, and Thomas J Stavrum, president of the Audubon Society, enjoying a bird wal... |
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Description: | A couple poses near a sundial on a brick walkway in a park. On the right is the original east wing of French Lick Springs Hotel, established in 1845 and bu... |
Date: | 08 1957 |
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Description: | An Algerian National Liberation Front member uses binoculars while on patrol. He is sitting on a boulder with his back against another boulder. Beside him ... |
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