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| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "The 40-inch telescope of the University of Chicago Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, Wisconsin. The object-glass has a diameter of 40... |
| Date: | 08 19 1948 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Telescope with 40 in. Lens, Largest in the World. Williams Bay on Lake Geneva, Wisconsin." On reverse: "The 40 inch telescope of the ... |
| Date: | 02 1966 |
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| Description: | A circular stone and cement sundial in a snowy yard. |
| Date: | 04 10 1958 |
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| Description: | A group of Madison youth inspecting and setting up their telescopic equipment for gazing at the skies. This photograph accompanied an article about the gro... |
| Date: | 07 23 1932 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Vera Ford standing beside a sundial in her garden at 843 Farwell Drive. |
| Date: | 12 22 1953 |
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| Description: | From the observation window, G.M. Femrite is fixing his binocular field glasses on an incoming plane at the Truax Field control tower. |
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| Description: | Building with three levels, a porch and two balconies across the front of the house, a roof, and a man with a telescope in a belvedere in the center of the... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Telescope at Washburn Observatory with man at controls. |
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| Description: | Aldo Leopold, UW Professor of Wildlife Management, posing with binoculars around his neck. He is about to embark on an inspection and bird-watching tour of... |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Muir's illustration of a means to record time by use of a star. He titled the drawing "The star hand rising and setting with the sun all the year". |
| Date: | 09 19 1950 |
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| Description: | Mary Walker, vice-president of the Audubon Society; Gratia Stavrum, Alan Keitt, and Thomas J Stavrum, president of the Audubon Society, enjoying a bird wal... |
| Date: | 08 14 1931 |
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| Description: | Prof. C. Morse Huffer is standing with the 20 foot telescope in the Washburn Observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the Antenna Reflector Array used on the Saturn/Apollo Mission, 1967-70. The Array was manufactured by International Harvester Company's sub... |
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| Description: | A view of a lawn at the State Normal School accented with a bust and sundial. Trees and various plantings dot the landscape. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Two girls and a boy pose holding flowers in the garden of William Llewellyn and Zona Gale Breese. The boy grips the gnomon of the sundial. The girl on the ... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | A view of Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Lake Geneva. It was the "largest refracting telescope in the world," according to "Wisconsin: A Guide To The ... |
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| Description: | A line of people waiting to look through a large telescope at Manchester's Department Store at Christmas. |
| Date: | 01 20 1948 |
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| Description: | George E. Koehler, son of Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Koehler, 109 Chestnut Street, won a trip to Washington, D.C., for his bird watching and bird census work. He is... |
| Date: | 07 20 1945 |
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| Description: | Jack Burkhalter, nine-year old Cub Scout, grinding and polishing a lens for the telescope he is building. Jack may be the nation's youngest amateur telesco... |
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| Description: | Exterior of "Old Main" at the State Normal School, founded in 1868. The view features a main entrance flanked by columns. A statue and a sundial stand on ... |
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