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| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Elevated exterior view of Yerkes Observatory. Geneva Lake is in the background, left. Roads and sidewalks cross the sweeping, well tended lawns. The desi... |
| Date: | 1823 |
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| Description: | In 1823 U.S. Army major Stephen H. Long led an expedition of scientific, trade, and military investigation up the Mississippi River and the Red River of th... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Telescope at Washburn Observatory with man at controls. |
| Date: | 05 14 1963 |
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| Description: | Lunar trajectory paths and computations on a blackboard are discussed by employees of Milwaukee's Astronautics, Inc. |
| Date: | 01 27 1968 |
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| Description: | Woman working on a wire harness for the lunar module section of an Apollo spacecraft at the AC Electronics division of General Motors Corp. plant. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | A traveling display about the NASA manned space program on exhibit at Austin Straubel Airport. Included in the exhibit is a model of a space capsule and a ... |
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| Description: | Astronaut Neil Armstrong (right), the first man to walk on the surface of the Moon, with Tom Poberezny, the son of EAA founder Paul Poberezny and the presi... |
| Date: | 11 08 1926 |
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| Description: | Small telescope at University of Wisconsin-Madison Washburn Observatory. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Washburn Observatory. Hill, trees and fields are in the background. A man is standing near a small obs... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View across field towards the observatory. Caption reads: "Yerkes Observatory, Lake Geneva, Wis." |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | The entrance to Yerkes Observatory. Caption reads: "Entrance, Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago, at Williams Bay, Wis." |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Yerkes Observatory. |
| Date: | 03 18 1973 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the University of Wisconsin Space Astronomy Laboratory at 35 North Park Street. |
| Date: | 10 03 1976 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Washburn Observatory, a gift to the University of Wisconsin-Madison from Cadwallader C. Washburn, on Observatory Hill overlooking Lake Mendota,... |
| Date: | 06 17 1947 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Washburn Observatory on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
| Date: | 06 17 1947 |
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| Description: | View looking up towards open dome as Olin Eggen, research astronomer, looks through the telescope at Washburn Observatory on the campus of University of Wi... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The telescope inside the dome at Yerkes Observatory. |
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