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| Date: | 11 09 1955 |
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| Description: | A banker pours 12,320 pennies into a change maker. The man had saved the coins for over four years. |
| Date: | 04 11 1968 |
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| Description: | Japanese businessmen visit an American manufacturing firm in South Milwaukee and pose inside a huge metal implement. The American firm is Bucyrus-Erie and... |
| Date: | 04 28 1968 |
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| Description: | A group of businessmen and customers watch a board that displays the stock amounts of the American Stock Exchange in a board room. |
| Date: | 06 14 1956 |
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| Description: | Sam Adair of 4380 N Wildwood Av., Shorewood, Wisconsin wearing fan labeled Rheem Personal Portable Air Conditioner around his neck to stay cool. |
| Date: | 09 20 1956 |
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| Description: | Katharine Mather of the Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station checks a computer analysis of the composition of cement. |
| Date: | 02 15 1957 |
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| Description: | John Fischer, age 11, demonstrates his invention, a "walking and talking" robot. The robot's eyes light up, and it rolls back and forth on a platform. |
| Date: | 01 10 1966 |
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| Description: | Gail Lukas' hair stands on end when she places her hand on a Van de Graalf generator in a demonstration by the Atomic Energy Commission for junior high sch... |
| Date: | 04 11 1986 |
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| Description: | Schoolgirl watches the monitor as she types her story on a word processor. |
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| Description: | Students and teacher in classroom demonstrating an experiment with atomic energy. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a demonstration of a nuclear reactor driven energy plant. |
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| Description: | The operator of a nuclear plant sits in the control room. |
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| Description: | An infant being pushed in a baby flyer (baby carriage) by a robot in Leeds, England. |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indians Foster DeCorah and sons. Foster and son Robert served in Co. D of the 128th Infantry and were killed in WWI. |
| Date: | 1857 |
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| Description: | An actor dressed as an army officer, holding a saber, for the performance of "Black Hawk, or Lily of the Prairie," a drama written by Mary Elizabeth Mears ... |
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| Description: | Laurie and Muriel Peterson, children of the photographer, use a high chair to talk on the phone. |
| Date: | 06 25 1937 |
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| Description: | Workers at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works perform "tear-down" inspections and tests of diesel engines. |
| Date: | 08 12 1984 |
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| Description: | A bikini-clad woman snaps a self-portrait with a long cable release attached to a camera as she is tossed into the air by a group of men on the beach. Othe... |
| Date: | 10 10 1977 |
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| Description: | View down sidewalk of a skateboarder doing a handstand on a skateboard. Pedestrians are watching from the left. |
| Date: | 09 27 1934 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin Professor Miles L. Hanley watching coeds Laura Severson and Theressa Fein, while they are working on transcriptions for a linguisti... |
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