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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...
Historical Object

Limnology Apparatus

Date: 1890
Description: Apparatus for limnological research conducted at Trout Lake, Wisconsin and elsewhere.
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Dr. Birge on Trout Lake

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Description: Dr. Edward Ashael Birge paddling on a raft in Trout Lake. In 1875 Dr. Birge first came to teach natural history at the University of Wisconsin, and remaine...
Photograph

Equipment at Trout Lake Station

Date: 1929
Description: Dr. E.A. Birge's equipment at his Trout Lake Station laboratory.
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Baum And Hasler

Date: 1933
Description: Baum and Hasler building lime floats at Trout Lake.
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Birge and Juday

Date: 1925
Description: Limnologist Dr. Edward Birge (left) and Professor Chauncey Juday posing together outdoors at what is probably the lake research laboratory in Trout Lake.
Photograph

Birge and Juday on the Ice

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Description: Dr. Edward Birge (left) and Chancey Juday (center) do limnology research on the ice with a mud thermometer.
Photograph

Group Portrait

Date: 1934
Description: A group of scientists posing together for a group portrait. E.A. Birge is the first man on the right, and Chancey Juday is in the center of the group, sixt...
Photograph

Professor E.A. Birge's Laboratory

Date: 1925
Description: Equipment is set-up in a laboratory at Trout Lake. A map of Oneida County is on the far wall between two windows.
Photograph

Shoreline of Lake

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Description: View across water towards a shoreline nearby. There appears to be a sign on one of the birch trees. A far shoreline is in the distance.
Photograph

North Trout Lake

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Description: View towards a boat pulled up on the sandy, curving shoreline of North Trout Lake.
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Arbor Vitae Lake

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Description: View from road towards the shoreline of Arbor Vitae Lake, with old pilings or piers in the water. Buildings are along the road on the left and on the far s...
Photograph

Ice Push

Date: 1925
Description: View along shoreline of Trout Lake. Caption reads: "Showing evidence of 'ice push,' or the piling up of lake shore sand as a result of the expansion of the...
Photograph

Ice Push

Date: 1925
Description: View along shoreline of Trout Lake. Caption reads: "Showing evidence of 'ice push,' or the piling up of lake shore sand as a result of the expansion of the...
Photograph

"Very Accidental" Intersection

Date: 1937
Description: View of curve in unpaved road, with a guard rail on the right. There is erosion underneath trees just beyond the curve of the road. A road sign on the righ...
Photograph

Trout Lake

Date: 1939
Description: View across water towards the shoreline of Trout Lake. There is a thin, sandy beach, and trees all along the curved shoreline.
Photograph

Bacteriology Laboratory

Date: 1935
Description: View looking down slope towards the Bacteriology Laboratory on the shore of Trout Lake. Trees are around the small, wood sided building, and the lake is in...
Photograph

Dr. Birge at Trout Lake

Date: 1930
Description: Caption reads: "Dr. Birge, probably at Trout Lake." He is sitting in a car. There is a boat covered by a tarp on a trailer behind the car. A lake is in the...
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Dr. Birge at Trout Lake

Date: 1930
Description: Dr. Birge sitting in a boat, probably at Trout Lake. The outboard motor on the boat has been tilted out of the water. A wooded shoreline is in the distance...

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