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Weighing a Turkey

Date: 11 1947
Description: A worker at Frank Lyons Turkey Farm, Verona, is weighing a turkey as two girls are looking on.
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Baby Weigh-In before Baby Show

Date: 09 19 1952
Description: Brian Lange, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Lange, Portage, being weighed by Inez Lee, assistant chairman of the American Legion Baby Show and Child Talent Cont...
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B.B. Stoller Tending Mushroom Garden

Date: 09 19 1944
Description: B.B. Stoller tending the University of Wisconsin mushroom garden in the "hole in the ground" which is a bricked and vaulted recess located in the hillside ...
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Dorothy Johansson in University of Wisconsin Laboratory

Date: 02 23 1945
Description: Dorothy Johansson, research assistant in zoology at the University of Wisconsin, performing an experiment using white rats to check techniques being develo...
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Professor Philip G. Fox and Slot Machine

Date: 03 03 1945
Description: Philip G. Fox, 513 Virginia Terrace, professor of business administration at the University of Wisconsin, with a slot machine. Professor Fox is a well-kno...
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Pheasant Banding

Date: 03 07 1945
Description: Robert McCabe, University of Wisconsin Arboretum biologist, and Jim Hale, his assistant, study the band on one of the pheasants caught in the trap in the b...
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Gilson Metal Locator

Date: 03 15 1945
Description: Hulda Gieschen and Dr. Warren E. Gilson, who specializes in electro-physiology and medical electronics at the University of Wisconsin, are looking at a Gil...
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Man with Boat on Pier

Date: 05 24 1945
Description: Bennie Berg standing on a lake shore dock next to a Hoover Boat Line boat. Also shows his invention to aid in launching, the Berg's Inc. Boat Roller.
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Madison Dairy Laboratory

Date: 01 09 1946
Description: Two men performing a test in a laboratory at the Madison Dairy, 1018 East Washington Avenue.
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Malcolm W. Jensen

Date: 02 19 1947
Description: Malcolm W. Jensen, age 30, City of Madison Sealer of Weights and Measures, is pictured at his desk in the Madison City Market Building. The objects on his...
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Astronomer at Washburn Observatory

Date: 06 17 1947
Description: View looking up towards open dome as Olin Eggen, research astronomer, looks through the telescope at Washburn Observatory on the campus of University of Wi...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Weigh-In

Date: 07 26 1947
Description: Weigh-in for Soap Box Derby entrants. Pierre Slightam, in striped shirt, has his car the Doodlebug weighed. The floor of the car was made from an old iro...
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Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene

Date: 08 07 1947
Description: Dr. Ann Laird, resident in pathology at Wisconsin General Hospital, adjusts the technocon which speeds cancer diagnosis, in the laboratory at the Wisconsin...
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Visiting Nurse Service

Date: 09 11 1947
Description: Visiting Nurse Service, sponsored by Attic Angels, at a child health center at Emerson School. This center is one of five child health centers sponsored by...
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Dairy Laboratory Truck

Date: 1947
Description: Two men standing at the rear of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture dairy laboratory truck, which has wooden steps leading up to the open rear doors.
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Woman Working in Laboratory

Date: 01 10 1948
Description: A woman in a laboratory coat working in a laboratory. (Possibily Jane Fred?).
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Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

Date: 01 1948
Description: Two men in a laboratory weighing rats at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
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University of Wisconsin Textile Testing

Date: 04 01 1948
Description: Margaret Cooper, Associate Professor of Home Economics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and director of the textile laboratory, testing the bursting...
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University of Wisconsin Textile Testing

Date: 04 01 1948
Description: Arliss Otto, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from Menominee Falls, testing a sample of fabric for fading at a laboratory fadeometer.
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Fisherman Lester Shore

Date: 04 09 1948
Description: Police Officer Lester Shore, holding a "River Shiner" fishing lure, for which he holds a patent. It is a casting plug that has a metal lip and shaft and im...

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