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Offset Rigid Tractor Disk Harrow (Exp.)

Date: 04 04 1928
Description: Disk Harrow drawn by tractor sitting in a field, with a view of neighborhood beyond. Children are watching in the background. A fence and houses are behind...
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Experimental Disk Harrow

Date: 07 11 1924
Description: Right side profile view of a man driving a tractor pulling an experimental weighted disk harrow. Buildings are in the background.
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Treadmill Area — Simulated Field Testing

Date: 1959
Description: Dual image of a man working indoors for simulated field testing, and an image of a tractor attached to chains at the Farm Equipment Research and Engineerin...
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High Speed Motion Picture Camera

Date: 1959
Description: Man operating a high speed motion picture camera. Caption reads: "Operating range from 500 to 8000 pictures per second. Using standard 16 mm film."
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Raye Franz

Date: 09 30 1960
Description: Co-ed Raye Franz' campus job is grinding rat's teeth on emery stone.
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Dr. Oliver P. Watts in Laboratory

Date: 1949
Description: A man stands over a device, which he is inspecting. Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. 1949(?). Prof. Oliver P. Watts, retired distinguished authority on the co...
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 25 1959
Description: Working with a high school student in a U.W. Department of Medical Biology chemical research laboratory is Dr. Billie Padgett, left. At right Lucy helps to...
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 31 1959
Description: Demonstrating the Navy Research laboratory's electronic computer to a high school student is, seated, experimental physicist, Dr. Anneke Levelt. Dr. Levelt...
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 25 1959
Description: Demonstrating a research procedure to high school female students at a U.W. chemistry research laboratory is Dr. Carolyn Abrahams, left. Barbara Swanson, ...
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls

Date: 05 25 1959
Description: Working with two West High students in a chemical research laboratory of the U. W. Medical School, is Dr. Anna Maria Williams, center. At left, Mary Sedgwi...
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Math Research Center Dedication

Date: 04 23 1959
Description: Three men who figured prominently in the dedication of the Mathematics Research Center are shown talking before the ceremonies. Left to right: Wilbur Renk...
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Math Research Center Dedication

Date: 04 23 1959
Description: Three researchers who spoke at the Math Research Center dedication are shown, (left to right): Dr. William H. Martin, director of research and development,...
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2F Farmall Tractor

Date: 01 11 1939
Description: Rear view of tractor. 2F Farmall Tractor. 2nd Preproduction.
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2F Farmall Tractor

Date: 01 11 1939
Description: Three-quarter view of right rear of tractor. 2F Farmall Tractor 2nd Preproduction.
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2F Farmall Tractor

Date: 01 11 1939
Description: View of left side of tractor. 2F Farmall Tractor, 2nd Preproduction.
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2F Tractor (Wood Model)

Date: 1938
Description: Three-quarter view toward front right of tractor.
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Hattibel Merrill

Date: 1890
Description: Vignetted quarter-length carte-de-visite of Hattibel [Harriet Bell] Merrill, who graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a Bachelors of Sci...
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Air Quality Monitoring

Date: 01 15 1959
Description: Robert Butler, a public health technologist with the city health department, is examining a used filter. He is atop the second floor of the City-County bui...
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Air Quality Monitoring

Date: 01 15 1959
Description: A man is putting an 8 x 10 filter into an envelope to be sent to "a U.S. Public Health Service laboratory in Cincinnati for analysis". The filter changed f...
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Prof. Jerzy Leon Nowinski

Date: 10 31 1958
Description: Portrait of Prof. Jerzy Leon Nowinski, a scientist and mathematician who was granted asylum in America in January 1958 from his native Poland. The origina...

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