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| Description: | Truck parked among buildings, with people standing nearby. Caption reads: "Malaria eradication personnel talking to farmer in the coastal regions north of ... |
| Date: | 11 01 1958 |
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| Description: | All elm trees in Maple Bluff are sprayed for Dutch elm disease in accordance with the village's compulsory spraying ordinance. Charles Webster, 2740 Milwau... |
| Date: | 04 06 1950 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the 5th conference of the Wisconsin Pest Control, taken in the Crystal Ball Room of the Loraine Hotel. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Informational sheet warning of the dangers of consuming fish contaminated with DDT. |
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| Description: | View of a crop duster spraying a pesticide to control Malaria mosquitoes over a pond. The caption under the image reads: "Aerial 'Gas' Attack Annihilates a... |
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| Description: | Bumper sticker promoting the banning of DDT. |
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| Description: | Bumper sticker featuring a skull and crossbones supporting a ban on DDT. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Wil-Kil Pest Control building at 705 Williamson Street. The sign above the entrance features a rat and a cockroach depicted in neon. |
| Date: | 09 26 1969 |
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| Description: | Walter Scott of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources weighs the 4,499-page transcript of Wisconsin's DDT hearings. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Table compiling data about the amount of DDT found in dead or diseased birds of several species found in areas treated with DDT. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Dusting a cranberry marsh to combat blunt-nosed leaf-hoppers, Cranberry Lake Development Co. |
| Date: | 08 1936 |
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| Description: | A plane flies low over a cranberry marsh to dust for leaf-hoppers. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Irving R. Bennett, of the A.E. Bennett & Son Cranberry Marsh, spraying cranberry marshes for pest and weed control. The hose was attached to a rig that cou... |
| Date: | 04 1968 |
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| Description: | Helicopter treating elm trees with DDT to kill beetles that carry Dutch Elm Disease. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Worker spraying Elm trees with DDT pumped from a tank hitched to the back of a vehicle equipped with a snow plow. |
| Date: | 05 29 1960 |
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| Description: | A homemade, sack-head scarecrow stands in a small garden. |
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| Description: | Two men spray trees for pests. One man is driving a tractor pulling a tank, while the other man follows behind holding a high pressure hose spraying the li... |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat sprays liquid from a canister hanging from his shoulder designed to kill mosquitoes. He is in a field and trees are in the background. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | At the grasshopper bait mixing station at Fall Creek, two cement mixers were used to mix sawdust, a whey product, and sodium arsenite. So severe was the gr... |
| Date: | 04 1934 |
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| Description: | A flooded cranberry bog. In this case the bog was flooded in the spring in order to kill insects. |
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