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Weather Radar

Date: 1950
Description: Meteorologists using radar equipment outdoors.
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McCormick Works Paint(?) Laboratory

Date: 1900
Description: Technicians standing and sitting in the paint(?) laboratory at the McCormick Reaper Works factory. Tables are equipped with burners, beakers and other supp...
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Laboratory Worker Tests Binder Twine

Date: 1948
Description: A lab technician tests binder twine, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. Original caption reads: "Resistance to rot, insect and rodent damage, is establi...
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Wisconsin Civilian Defense Nurses Enrolment Day

Date: 02 20 1951
Description: Al Hammond, a technician at the state crime laboratory, poses with some testing equipment. As a former medical corps man during World War II, he would be a...
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 07 01 1957
Description: Betty Gregg, chief technologist for the Red Cross in Madison, checks the blood type of volunteer donor George Gill.
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Technician Testing Dyes for Nylon Carpet

Date: 1970
Description: A female technician is at a workbench testing dyes for nylon carpet. The woman is wearing a white lab coat and apron, and has a beehive or bouffant hairsty...
Magazine or Periodical

Home Economics Department Kitchen

Date: 02 1948
Description: View of the new home economics department kitchen. Zelma Purchase is at the range and Priscilla Cobb is standing at the sink.
Magazine or Periodical

Irma Harding's Chief Representative, Miss Mae Houston

Date: 1953
Description: Miss Mae Houston, director of the home economics laboratory at Evansville, sitting at a desk.
Magazine or Periodical

Mrs. Ann Hamman

Date: 1953
Description: Mrs. Ann Hamman at International Harvester's refrigeration works.
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Mary Alyce DeVillez

Date: 1953
Description: Mary Alyce DeVillez in her office at International Harvester's refrigeration works.
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Testing Freezer Capacity

Date: 1953
Description: Dora Louise Bower and Ethel Mitchel determining a freezer's capacity in the lab at International Harvester's refrigeration works.
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Spot-Checking Production Line

Date: 04 1953
Description: Mae Houston inspecting a new supply of Pantry-Dors for the model L-103 refrigerator with a man on a factory floor.
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Mae Houston Discussing Foot Pedal Design

Date: 1953
Description: Mae Houston discussing foot pedal design of the Decorator with Ray Edwards and M. Jura of Experimental and Test.
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Madison Newspapers New Photoengraving Lab

Date: 05 21 1957
Description: Rolland H. Fellers, superintendent of the engraving department, checks over the new Robertson half-tone color camera at Madison Newspapers new photoengravi...

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