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| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | A man dressed in a Smokey Bear costume is standing with two Milwaukee school children. A young girl is sitting at a desk, and a boy is standing and holding... |
| Date: | 10 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of five women researchers performing various aspects of food research and related activities in a test kitchen and laboratory at the... |
| Date: | 09 05 1943 |
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| Description: | Gosling's Sales and Service display at West Side Business Men's Association harvest festival featuring coffee grinders, meat grinders and Holcomb & Hoke Ma... |
| Date: | 02 05 1938 |
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| Description: | Side view of Wisconsin Department of Agriculture Weights and Measures Division truck parked in a garage beside measuring device. |
| Date: | 01 30 1931 |
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| Description: | Lillian Rice (aka Loretta La Boze), 18 of Janesville, in man's clothing with police matron, Pearl Shaughnessy, at the Police Station. Lillian was arrested ... |
| Date: | 04 12 1928 |
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| Description: | View of a man taking Sodium Chloride (NaCl) out of a jar to measure it on an old scale on a table. The man is working in the Ricketts laboratory at the Agr... |
| Date: | 04 12 1928 |
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| Description: | Man measuring chemical CaCO4 on Toledo Scale in Ricketts laboratory at Agriculture Chemistry Building, University of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 04 12 1928 |
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| Description: | Man taking chemical CaCO4 out of a jar to measure it on Toledo Scale in Ricketts laboratory at Agriculture Chemistry Building, University of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 07 1905 |
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| Description: | Edgar and Jennie Krueger outdoors in the yard. Edgar is sitting on a concrete planter holding a kitten in his lap. Jennie is kneeling in the grass weighing... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the butcher shop section of the Fowler and Holmes Store. There is wood paneling and cabinetry throughout the room, shelving and hooks on t... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | A young girl wearing a coat and hat is standing on a scale that is chained to a post near a building. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A worker carefully weighs a bale of sisal fiber, possibly at an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Weighing the bale of s... |
| Date: | 07 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Ted Ryan being weighed with his racing car. Their combined weight was just under the 250-pound limit. Left to right are Weighmaster Frankie Meyers, 1948 Ma... |
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| Description: | An interior view of a colonial trade room of an old fort in New York. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | The Elk Mound High School band entertaining farmers as they weigh in loads of scrap at Ausman Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. The... |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a science classroom at Putnam Catholic Academy. Two chalkboards line the walls and stools stand at laboratory tables throughout t... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men in a residential backyard using a hanging scale to weigh bales of cotton loaded on a wagon pulled by a team of work horses. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the meat market. A man wearing a butcher's jacket stands on the porch alongside a platform scale. |
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| Description: | Interior view showing an ice box in a cottage at Nature Lovers Paradise, a resort on Jackson Lake. The doors are open on the ice box, and trays are on the ... |
| Date: | 09 1984 |
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| Description: | "Milton Retzlaff showed off some huge red Pontiac potatoes including a monster that weighted in at a whopping 2 1/2 pounds. Milton claims the potatoes are ... |
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