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| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Stereograph portrait of Increase Allen Lapham (1811-1875) examining the sixth fragment of a 33 lb. meteorite found in Trenton, Washington County, Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Downer College students working in a laboratory in which a human skeleton, a frog, a bat and stuffed birds are displayed. |
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| Description: | Ringling Brothers-Barnum & Bailey circus performers gathered in front of a circus tent to view a solar eclipse. Some are wearing protective eyeglasses. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Lillian Sholes, demonstrating a prototype typewriter invented by her father, Christopher Latham Sholes. |
| Date: | 05 15 1935 |
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| Description: | View of a U.S. Pharmacopeia Exhibit about a class of medications called 'digitalis' at the annual Philadelphia on Parade. Digitalis medicines are used to i... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A man dressed in a Smokey Bear costume is standing with two Milwaukee school children. A young girl is sitting at a desk, and a boy is standing and holding... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Inventor, B.L. Boboroff, displays his vote recording device to members of the U.S. House of Representatives. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Students and teacher in physics lab at Stevens Point Normal School, which would later become the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Maria Mitchell, first woman astronomer in the United States at Vassar College. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Wilbur Wright (standing, second from the right) with Edward C. Huffaker, Octave Chanute, and George Spratt in the workshed. Chanute was a special visitor f... |
| Date: | 10 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of men and women sitting around a table, sampling slices of Oscar Mayer meat products in the Oscar Mayer laboratory. A women in a lo... |
| Date: | 10 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of five women workers in an Oscar Mayer Company test kitchen and laboratory. A low wall is separating two women working at desks on ... |
| Date: | 10 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of five women researchers performing various aspects of food research and related activities in a test kitchen and laboratory at the... |
| Date: | 09 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Toddler sitting at child's training desk, with lid closed. |
| Date: | 09 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Little boy at child's training desk with bench seat. |
| Date: | 09 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Young girl seated at child's training desk with top open showing blackboard. |
| Date: | 09 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Gosling's Sales and Service display at West Side Business Men's Association harvest festival featuring coffee grinders, meat grinders and Holcomb & Hoke Ma... |
| Date: | 05 16 1942 |
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| Description: | Seven Edgewood College (Sacred Heart Academy) women sitting at tables in Marshall Hall science laboratory, located at 1000 Edgewood Avenue. |
| Date: | 03 07 1931 |
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| Description: | Four laboratory workers in the Madison General Hospital laboratory. Three women are working at a counter near microscopes. A man is leaning against a coun... |
| Date: | 01 30 1931 |
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| Description: | Lillian Rice (aka Loretta La Boze), 18 of Janesville, in man's clothing with police matron, Pearl Shaughnessy, at the Police Station. Lillian was arrested ... |
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