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| Date: | 03 20 1977 |
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| Description: | A mural painted on the side of the Red Caboose Day Care Center at 654 Williamson Street. Images in the mural include children playing, grasshoppers, a turt... |
| Date: | 07 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Glen Lindsey displays the fly traps he invented to trap thousands of flies in the Truax Field area. |
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| Description: | Myles Horton doodling for doodle bugs outside the Highlander Library. |
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| Description: | Two men operating a hose to spray DDT into tall grass near water. |
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| Description: | Men pumping DDT from a tank on the back of a truck to be sprayed into a field. |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat sprays liquid from a canister hanging from his shoulder designed to kill mosquitoes. He is in a field and trees are in the background. |
| Date: | 05 1925 |
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| Description: | Man showing pest damage to a tree. Original caption reads: "Showing where tree had been girdled by pitch moth larvae, and later grew larger above and below... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A wooden fly trap standing at the back entrance to the farmhouse of Professor Perry Holden. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Wil-Kil Pest Control building at 705 Williamson Street. The sign above the entrance features a rat and a cockroach depicted in neon. |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Flat sculpture or sign of a monarch butterfly attached to the side of a brick wall. Leaves are hanging from branches of a tree from the upper right and par... |
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| Description: | View of a crop duster spraying a pesticide to control Malaria mosquitoes over a pond. The caption under the image reads: "Aerial 'Gas' Attack Annihilates a... |
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| Description: | View from front of a man on a motorcycle squirting fuel oil into a sewer opening at a curb to control mosquitoes. The motorcycle has an oil tank attached l... |
| Date: | 06 2014 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of a peony blossom in the sunshine. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Bill Marr swatting at wasps in the great outdoors. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Bill Marr smiling as he is swatting at wasps. |
| Date: | 06 06 2015 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of a brown dragonfly resting on a rock. |
| Date: | 07 15 2015 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of trumpet vine blossoms. An insect is crawling along the inside of one of the flowers. |
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| Description: | A man wearing hip waders is standing in wetlands holding a collecting screen. He is collecting helgramites (a type of insect larva) to be used as bait for ... |
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| Description: | A barn swallow with a bug in its beak perching on a post. Hand-tinted lantern slide. |
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