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Photograph

Teacher and Girls Looking at Chart

Date: 10 12 1935
Description: Teacher and two girls looking at rat growth chart.
Drawing

"It Teaches Them To Respect the Law"

Date: 01 1981
Description: Political cartoon showing a nude man chained to a jail cell door bearing a sign that reads "Jailing of Children." There are two rats in the foreground, wit...
Book or Pamphlet

Two Pictographs, Okundekund and Kakake-Ogwunaosh

Date: 1851
Description: Two pictographs: Pictograph C., Okundekund, and his Band of Ontonagon, Michigan, and Pictograph D., Kakake-Ogwunaosh, and his Band of the Head of the Wisc...
Book or Pamphlet

Synopsis of Indian Hieroglyphics

Date: 1851
Description: Synopsis of Indian Hieroglyphics. Pictographs 71-140, including birds, human figures, plants, animals and other symbols.
Book or Pamphlet

Kenisteno, and his Band of Trout Lake, Wisconsin

Date: 1851
Description: Kenisteno, and his Band of Trout Lake, Wisconsin. One row of birds, animals and fish pictographs.
Map or Atlas

Amplissimæ Regionis Mississipi seu Provinciæ Ludovicianæ: A R. P. Ludovico Hennepin Francisc Miss in America Septentrionali anno 1687

Date: 1720
Description: Detailed, ornate, and comprehensive map of America from the east coast to present day Texas. Numerous features appear throughout the map, including Native ...
Photograph

Wil-Kil Pest Control

Date: 1955
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.
Historical Object

Dairyland Rat Poison

Date: 
Description: Dairyland rat poison container, made for the Wisconsin Pharmacal Company in Milwaukee. It was a warfarin-based poison.
Photograph

Dead Rat, Taylor Alley

Date: 1966
Description: A deceased rat lies on the ground near a wood pile.

80 people live in 21 buildings in the Taylor Alley neighborhood of Natchez. The occupants have 11 hyd...

Photograph

Children and Their Pets

Date: 04 02 1949
Description: Sharon Koepke, twelve-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip (Joy) Koepke, 830 Hiawatha Drive, with her pet white rat, "Bonnie".
Photograph

Scattering Rat Poison in City Dump

Date: 08 12 1948
Description: Two men are scattering barium carbonate rat poison in a city dump located at the end of Fern Drive off Highbury Road near University Avenue. The land was o...
Photograph

Spreading Rat Poison in Dump

Date: 08 12 1948
Description: James L. Clarke (left) city health inspector, and Lewis B. Kelly (right) president of the Solvit Chemical Corp., are shown as they prepare to scatter the b...
Photograph

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

Date: 01 1948
Description: Two men in a laboratory weighing rats at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
Photograph

Rat Extermination

Date: 09 30 1947
Description: James L. Clarke, city health inspector, placing a warning sign on a fence at the Shorewood dump after workers distributed poison bread bait in the dump.
Photograph

Rat Extermination

Date: 09 30 1947
Description: James Capacio and John H. Endres, assistant to L.B. Kelly of the Solvit Chemical Company, distributing poison bread at the Shorewood dump in a rat extermin...
Photograph

James L. Clark, City Health Inspector

Date: 09 20 1947
Description: James L. Clark, Madison city health inspector, shown pointing to a map of Madison marked with X's signifying places with rat infestation.
Photograph

Rat Bait Trap Contest Winner

Date: 12 16 1951
Description: At left, Lynn Hazelbaker is shown demonstrating the winning entry of the Madison Youth Council's rat bait box building contest built by Edward Ripp, age 14...
Print

When I Wish to Catch Rats, I First Stop Their Holes

Date: 1860
Description: A seven-sided arrangement of Union ships and military camps surrounding 7 rats and one cat. Harpers Ferry is in the center of a circular design. The ship l...
Print

The Union Constitution Liberty and Laws!!

Date: 1860
Description: An elephant carries the Union flag with the words "THE CONSTITUTION LIBERTY AND LAWS!!" on it and wears another Union flag on its back. The elephant's fron...
Photograph

Rats in Cages

Date: 10 12 1935
Description: Children observing captive white rats in cages.

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