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| Date: | 08 31 1939 |
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| Description: | Solvit Chemical Co. sign nailed across two doors numbered 107 & 105, sign says: "Keep Out, Badger 4717 — Madison, Wis., 'Poison Gas' Fumigation." |
| 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: | 03 29 1951 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of attendees at the Wisconsin Pest Control 6th Conference in the Waubesa Room, Park Hotel, 22 South Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 08 06 1951 |
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| Description: | "Kelly's Rat Cafeteria," cross section view of the interior and also the front view, taken for Solvit Chemical Company. |
| Date: | 07 27 1944 |
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| Description: | City of Madison staff demonstrating homemade liquid mosquito sprayer designed by Dr. Bernhard "Dommie" Domogalla, city biochemist. Left to right: LeRoy Joh... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | At Cornfalfa Farms two men try automobile exhaust to deal with their woodchuck problem. |
| Date: | 07 1938 |
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| Description: | Loading a truck with bait at the county mixing station at Balsam Lake during the grasshopper outbreak in northwestern Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 07 1938 |
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| Description: | Grasshopper bait mixing station at Ellsworth. |
| Date: | 07 1938 |
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| Description: | At a small sawmill near Shell Lake, farmers shovel sawdust which will be mixed with a whey product and applied to fields for grasshopper eradication during... |
| 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: | 08 1936 |
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| Description: | Airplane owned by the Agricultural Dusting Service of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, dusting a cranberry marsh in Wood County for leaf hoppers. The photographer ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Boom spraying of cranberries, in the Wisconsin Rapids area and probably by members of the Asa Bennett family. This technique using a tractor was developed ... |
| Date: | 07 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Pfc. Glen Lindsey displays the fly traps he invented to trap thousands of flies in the Truax Field area. |
| Date: | 08 22 1946 |
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| Description: | Sherwin Williams Company, 340 State Street, window display of PESTROY-DDT, new brush-on liquid coating for screens, porches, basements, sills, thresholds, ... |
| Date: | 07 30 1948 |
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| Description: | Blaney Farms 4-H booth with display: "Fight Weed Thieves." Three young women and one young man are shown with a display of farm products. They are all hold... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Three men operating an International I-14 industrial tractor and a 300-gallon beam sprayer in an apple orchard. One man is sitting on the tractor while the... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men are operating an International I-14 tractor and a beam sprayer. One man is sitting on the tractor while the other man is standing and operating the... |
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| Description: | Two men operating a hose to spray DDT into tall grass near water. |
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| Description: | Men pumping DDT from a tank on the back of a truck to be sprayed into a field. |
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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. |
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