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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: | 1880 |
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Description: | Exterior of Washburn Observatory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, showing telephone wires. |
Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | Stereograph portrait of Increase Allen Lapham (1811-1875) examining the sixth fragment of a 33 lb. meteorite found in Trenton, Washington County, Wisconsin... |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Head and shoulders oval framed portrait of John Muir (1838-1914). |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Downer College students working in a laboratory in which a human skeleton, a frog, a bat and stuffed birds are displayed. |
Date: | 1896 |
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Description: | Workers posing in front of pharmaceutical equipment to demonstrate the making of Dr. Brown's Cough Balsam at Kienth Drugs and Medicines, 608 Mitchell Stree... |
Date: | 04 1950 |
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Description: | A girl on a swing is the subject of photographers demonstrating a technique using high speed flash. |
Date: | 1909 |
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Description: | An unidentified man demonstrates his unsuccessful bird wing-like mechanism, which was part of an experiment in aviation. |
Date: | 1928 |
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Description: | Professor Hull conducting an experiment at the Psychological laboratory of the University of Wisconsin. |
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Description: | Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey circus performers gathered in front of a circus tent to view a solar eclipse. Some are wearing protective eyeglasses. |
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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: | 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: | 1917 |
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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... |
Date: | 1867 |
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Description: | A diagram of McCormick's cultivator-reaper, which was patented in 1845. The illustration, titled "The Cultivator" depicts a man using a rake to remove the ... |
Date: | 1931 |
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Description: | Exterior view of the blacksmith shop at Walnut Grove farm where Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884) invented and built his first reaper in 1831. |
Date: | 1834 |
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Description: | Press release image compiled by the International Harvester Company. The image includes "excerpts of the patent grant from the U.S. Patent Office to Cyrus ... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio... |
Date: | 1899 |
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Description: | A studio portrait of naturalist, conservationist, and writer John Muir. |
Date: | 1849 |
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Description: | Advertising handbill for Cyrus Hall McCormick's patent Virginia Reaper. Printed for C.H. McCormick & Co. by James J. Langdon, Chicago, Illinois. |
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