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| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of William H. Canfield (1819-1913), a Wisconsin civil engineer and surveyor who is best known for his studies of Sauk County's nat... |
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| Description: | Carte-de-visite portrait of Franz Brandecke, Milwaukee-based geologist. Worked on Wisconsin geological survey with Lapham. Handwritten text on front read... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Professor Davenport Fisher (1832-1911), Milwaukee chemist. After earning his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Heidelberg Unive... |
| Date: | 09 06 1914 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of George C. Comstock, University of Wisconsin-Madison astronomer. |
| Date: | 02 26 1914 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of Henry L. Ward, Milwaukee naturalist and museum director. |
| Date: | 1974 |
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| Description: | Two men applying systemic fungicide to an American Elm on a residential street through a gravity-feed. |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Increase Lapham examining a fragment of a meteorite. |
| Wisconsin's First Scientist |
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| Read about Wisconsin's first scientist. Learn about his achievements; including his scientific writings, and his work as an engineer and land surveyor. |
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