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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio... |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Female model posing with a rake next to a reproduction of Cyrus Hall McCormick's first reaper at International Harvester's "A Century of Progress" Worlds F... |
| Date: | 08 17 1965 |
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| Description: | NBC News broadcaster Merrill Mueller interviewing Lockheed engineer Bud Zeller about the Gemini Agena Target Vehicle. The interview was part of a public re... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Map created by International Harvester entitled: "The United States as it appeared in 1831 when Cyrus Hall McCormick invented the Reaper." The map pinpoint... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 07 31 1941 |
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| Description: | Earl C. Smith, president of the Illinois Agricultural Association, speaks into a microphone at an event to honor Mr. Clarence Dauberman for creating the fi... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A man writes information on a chart as he weighs a can of milk in a barn. A row of cows standing in stalls is behind him. The man may be working at Interna... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man inside a building uses a hanging scale to weigh a can of milk. He writes the weight on a chart hanging adjacent to the scale. |
| Date: | 11 03 1950 |
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| Description: | Two Wisconsin daily newspaper editors are shown as they tour the U.W. Lake Laboratory. Will Conrad, Medford Star News editor, and Charles E. Brought... |
| Date: | 10 24 1962 |
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| Description: | Senator Alexander Wiley posing with a model of a missile pointed at a map of Cuba. |
| Date: | 07 09 1951 |
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| Description: | Dr. Eloise Gerry at her desk at the United States Forest Products Laboratory where she is a distinguished wood technologist. Dr. Gerry, whose research arti... |
| Date: | 09 08 1956 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin football player Gene Melvin weighs in at 163 pounds and is the lightest player on the 1956 team. At right is the Wisconsin State... |
| Date: | 09 08 1956 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin football player Bob Nelson weighs in at 239 pounds and is the heaviest player on the 1956 team. At right is the Wisconsin State ... |
| Date: | 08 22 1961 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Dr. Krafft A. Ehricke, program director of the astronautics division of General Dynamics Corporation. He spoke at the Wisconsin Union Theater t... |
| Date: | 02 1977 |
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| Description: | A man is kneeling on the ice and snow at Potter's Lake. He is running a machine that is testing the oxygen levels in the water, while recording the results... |
| 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: | 08 09 1957 |
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| Description: | Richard C. Emmons (left), Professor of Geology at U.W., being presented thirteen Geiger counters and scintillation counters by E.L. Diener, manager of the ... |
| Date: | 06 12 1958 |
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| Description: | Antarctic explorers Dr. Edward Thiel (left) and John Behrendt (right) recently returned from a year long stay in Antarctica. Dr. Thiel was the co-leader of... |
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