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| Date: | 04 1950 |
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| Description: | A girl on a swing is the subject of photographers demonstrating a technique using high speed flash. |
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| Description: | Astronaut Charles M Duke, Jr., collecting lunar samples using a rake and tongs. This photograph was taken on the moon by John W. Young, the crew commander.... |
| Date: | 03 02 1934 |
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| Description: | A man exposing a negative onto a zinc plate, in preparation for making a zinc etching at Wisconsin Engraving Co., 109 S. Carroll Street. |
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| Description: | A woman dressed to play golf smiles as a bucket of golf balls is spilled at her feet. This is one of several demonstrations of strobe light functions at F... |
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| Description: | A man dressed in a football uniform demonstrates the art of drop-kicking the football. This is one of several demonstrations of strobe light functions at ... |
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| Description: | "Doc" Edgerton adjusts equipment in the lab. Known for his pioneering work in the development of the electronic flash, his photograph of a splashing milk-d... |
| Date: | 03 13 1947 |
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| Description: | Sheldon Wengel or Howard La Court at workbench creating a photographer's remote flash. A man is standing in the corner with his arms raised, perhaps holdin... |
| Date: | 03 13 1947 |
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| Description: | Sheldon Wengel and Howard La Court demonstrating a photographer's remote flash with a woman model. |
| Date: | 03 13 1947 |
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| Description: | June D. (Mrs. Sheldon) Wengel serving as a model for a remote flash tripped via a photo-electric cell invented in Madison by Sheldon Wengel and Howard La C... |
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| Description: | Illustration showing the relationship of film speed, shutter speed, and aperture in photography. |
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| Description: | Sid's illustration showing the range of infrared and ultraviolet radiation and the color sensitivity of Panchromatic and Ortho films compared to human visi... |
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| Description: | Sid's illustration showing the relationship between film, a camera lens and the light controls for aperture and shutter speed in photography. |
| Date: | 05 21 1957 |
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| Description: | Rolland H. Fellers, superintendent of the engraving department, checks over the new Robertson half-tone color camera at Madison Newspapers new photoengravi... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Man operating a high speed motion picture camera. Caption reads: "Operating range from 500 to 8000 pictures per second. Using standard 16 mm film." |
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