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| 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. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Telescope at Washburn Observatory with man at controls. |
| Date: | 02 10 1933 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting near a new photo electric cell equipment at Washburn Observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Also shown is a portion of... |
| Date: | 08 14 1931 |
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| Description: | Prof. C. Morse Huffer is standing with the 20 foot telescope in the Washburn Observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| 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: | 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 ... |
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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... |
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| Description: | View towards a woman standing among trees and plants and looking up into the sky through a pair of binoculars. |
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| Description: | A woman is sitting on a log outdoors. She is holding binoculars in her left hand, and is reading a bird identification book. |
| Date: | 06 22 1952 |
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| Description: | Campers Marilyn Homes, left, and Patricia Brown, right, learn to read a sundial at the Brownie Hoyt Park Day Camp. |
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| Description: | A woman is sitting in the grass next to a tree trunk. She is holding a pair of binoculars in her hands, and has a book Birds of North America lying ... |
| 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. |
| 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: | 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... |
| 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: | 02 1966 |
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| Description: | A circular stone and cement sundial in a snowy yard. |
| 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... |
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