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Professor Robert von Schlagintweit, Geographer

Date: 1869
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Robert von Schlagintweit (1833-1885), German orientalist, geographer and explorer. Along with his oldest brother Hermann, Rober...
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Professor Charles Abiathar White, Geologist

Date: 1868
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Charles A. White (1826-1910), an American geologist and paleontologist. White was the State geologist of Iowa in 1866-70, and a...
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Joseph H. McChesney, Geologist

Date: 1864
Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Professor Joseph H. McChesney, a geologist and paleontologist associated with the Illinois State Geological Survey. Shown here ...
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Edward Asahel Birge

Date: 05 11 1914
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Edward Asahel Birge, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor.
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Hans Bruening

Date: 04 25 1915
Description: Quarter-length portrait of Hans Bruening, Milwaukee, Wisconsin College of Music director.
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Stephen Moulton Babcock

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Stephen Moulton Babcock, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of agricultural chemistry.
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John H. Wilde with Student

Date: 1956
Description: John Wilde, Associate Professor in the School of Education's Department of Art Education, instructing a student in perspective sketching during a class mee...
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"Sun Trade Journal" Article Featuring Richard Ely

Date: 03 01 1903
Description: An article in Tokyo publication the "Sun Trade Journal" featuring Richard Ely, along with images of the main buildings of the University of Wisconsin-Madis...
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Hodding Carter

Date: 03 20 1957
Description: Hodding Carter (left), Pulitzer prize-winning editor of the Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville, Mississippi speaks with Supreme Court Justice Emmert...
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Survey Group

Date: 1895
Description: Group of surveyors from the Agricultural Department at the University of Wisconsin posing on the back platform of their railroad car 404, "the Palace Car."...
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Professor Hood of Rockford College

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Description: Professor Hood, head of the music department at Rockford College, leaning on a piano.
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Social Security Conference with President Roosevelt

Date: 03 20 1939
Description: Leaving the White House after their Social Security conference with President Roosevelt are (left to right): John Hanes, Undersecretary of the Treasury; Ar...
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Medical Students and Cadaver

Date: 1896
Description: Group of medical students (?) and instructor (?) posed around a cadaver. Presented by Dr. John G. Meachem III of Racine, Wis. Probably a dissection class a...
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Mathematics Professor Donald W. Crowe Directs Mathematics Talent Hunt

Date: 11 24 1965
Description: University of Wisconsin Mathematics Professor Donald W. Crowe explaining a math problem on how to cut up a rectangular cake into equal size acute triangles...
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Frederick Jackson Turner

Date: 12 1917
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Frederick Jackson Turner during his tenure as Professor of History at Harvard.
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Dr. Joseph Carpenter

Date: 1973
Description: Waist-up portrait of Dr. Joseph Carpenter, assistant professor of Afro-American Education & Philosophy, posing wearing a suit. This image accompanied publi...
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Dr. Joseph Carpenter and Family

Date: 1973
Description: Dr. Joseph Carpenter, assistant professor of Afro-American Education & Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is seated with his family. His ...
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Edward Bennett

Date: 1923
Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Edward Bennett, a professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin.
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Henry Carter Adams

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Description: Seated portrait of Henry Carter Adams, a Professor of Political Economy and finance at the University of Michigan, 1880-1921.
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Herbert Baxter Adams

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Description: Portrait of Herbert Baxter Adams, a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. Adams was one of the earliest professors to use the seminar format fo...

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