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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: | 07 23 1932 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Vera Ford standing beside a sundial in her garden at 843 Farwell Drive. |
| Date: | 06 20 1963 |
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| Description: | A member of the Milwaukee Astronomical society explains the telescope to children as they look at the stars from the starwagon at the Doerfler playground. |
| Date: | 07 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Robert Burkhalter, a life Boy Scout member of Troop 5, standing next to the telescope he built and mounted in his backyard, 105 Cambridge Road, Shorewood H... |
| Date: | 01 20 1948 |
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| Description: | George E. Koehler, son of Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Koehler, 109 Chestnut Street, won a trip to Washington, D.C., for his bird watching and bird census work. He is... |
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| Description: | A sundial on a pedestal sits on Observatory Hill, overlooking trees, a rooftop, and part of Lake Mendota. |
| 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: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Two girls and a boy pose holding flowers in the garden of William Llewellyn and Zona Gale Breese. The boy grips the gnomon of the sundial. The girl on the ... |
| 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: | Exterior of "Old Main" at the State Normal School, founded in 1868. The view features a main entrance flanked by columns. A statue and a sundial stand on ... |
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| Description: | A view of a lawn at the State Normal School accented with a bust and sundial. Trees and various plantings dot the landscape. |
| 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: | A couple poses near a sundial on a brick walkway in a park. On the right is the original east wing of French Lick Springs Hotel, established in 1845 and bu... |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | An Algerian National Liberation Front member uses binoculars while on patrol. He is sitting on a boulder with his back against another boulder. Beside him ... |
| Date: | 01 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle on a LST (Landing Ship, Tank) after the landing at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). He has binoculars in his hands. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View looking down at a sundial and stone geese in a garden area with a seashell flower ring at the Dickeyville Grotto. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | With a critical eye, Erich von Stroheim examines his make-up in a hand mirror. He sits outdoors in costume as the German military doctor Otto von Harden in... |
| Date: | 01 17 1980 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips standing outdoors wearing a coat holding binoculars. |
| Date: | 01 17 1980 |
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| Description: | Group portrait at Horicon Marsh. Vel Phillips stands in the middle of the group wearing a coat and dark pants. The man on the far right is W. Dale Phillips... |
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| Description: | A sundial on the walkway shows the time around sunset at the entrance to the main house at House on the Rock. |
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