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What's in a Name? Welcome to the North American History and Genealogy Blog

Get insight into our world class collections, behind the scenes stories, recent research highlights, meet staff, and learn about services.
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Service and Partnerships - Foundations that Guide Our Work

We digitized more than 70,000 historical images, online delivery of archival finding aids, purchased major new library resources in electronic form.
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How Farm Equipment Collectors Embraced the Archives

Thousands of people worldwide collect and restore machines made by International Harvester, often using the Archives to identify parts.
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William E. Allen Receives 2010 'William Dempster Hoard Award for Distinction in Agriculture'

Wisconsin History Maker Award
Read about Allen's dedication to the small family farmer and sustainable food systems for communities worldwide.
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Robert R. Spitzer Receives 2010 'Charles Van Hise Award for Distinction in Education'

Wisconsin History Maker Award
Learn about the president emeritus of the Milwaukee School of Engineering. This artcile details his leadership roles in numerous companies and firms.
Classroom Material

Oral Interview Training for the Hmong Oral History Project

Teach students to conduct oral history interviews with Wisconsin Hmong and how to use oral histories for research
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Students Conducting Scientific Research

Date: 1900
Description: Downer College students working in a laboratory in which a human skeleton, a frog, a bat and stuffed birds are displayed.
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Stroboscopic Photography Technique

Date: 04 1950
Description: A girl on a swing is the subject of photographers demonstrating a technique using high speed flash.
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Laboratory Experiment

Date: 1928
Description: Professor Hull conducting an experiment at the Psychological laboratory of the University of Wisconsin.
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Edward A. Birge

Date: 1917
Description: Edward A. Birge and Chancey Juday with plankton trap in Lake Mendota. From album of photographs relating to the research in limnology conducted at Trout La...
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Mogul Tractor Test Track Advertising Poster

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising poster for Mogul tractors featuring an elevated view of a Mogul 8-16, 12-25 and 30-60 tractors on a test track in Chicago, Illinois. Includes t...
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Dr. Babcock with Butterfat Tester

Date: 1926
Description: Dr. Stephen Babcock with an electric centrifuge butterfat tester.
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Atomic Power Display

Date: 09 26 1946
Description: Display in the window of a pharmacy, explaining what happens to uranium as atomic power is produced.
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Digitalis Exhibit

Date: 05 15 1935
Description: View of a U.S. Pharmacopeia Exhibit about a class of medications called 'digitalis' at the annual Philadelphia on Parade. Digitalis medicines are used to i...
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Pharmacopeial Revision

Date: 05 05 1937
Description: View of an educational exhibit set up under the auspices of George Beal, for the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention, at the dedication of the Mellon Institute.
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"The Pharmacopeia is for Educated Men.." Exhibit

Date: 05 1936
Description: A view of the U.S. Pharmacopeia's exhibit at the American Medical Association's 1931 Conference in Kansas City. The exhibit includes printed reference mate...
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Farmer and Computer

Date: 01 27 1960
Description: A farmer observes the processed results of the workings of an early computer or data machine. The machine was used to process and to organize data on a her...
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Analyzing Composition of Cement

Date: 09 20 1956
Description: Katharine Mather of the Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station checks a computer analysis of the composition of cement.
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High Cholesterol Diet

Date: 03 17 1955
Description: Science fair entry using animals to test a high cholesterol diet against a control diet.

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