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Filter: Year of 1900-1999
| Date: | 1916-04-06 |
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| County: | Rock |
| City: | Evansville |
| Date: | 1923-02-11 |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| City: | Milwaukee |
| Date: | 1927-03-27 |
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| County: | La Crosse |
| City: | La Crosse |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Cigar box label with portraits of inventors Thomas Edison, Eli Whitney, Robert Fulton, Cyrus McCormick, Richard March Hoe. Around the edges are illustratio... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Dr. Stephen Babcock with an electric centrifuge butterfat tester. |
| Date: | 05 13 1938 |
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| Description: | International PD-80 Marine power unit developed by the company's Nashville branch. |
| Date: | 02 23 1955 |
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| Description: | Five scientists wearing lab coats gather around an apparatus in a laboratory. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of a car, built by two University of Wisconsin students, which can be driven remotely. |
| Date: | 02 17 1913 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Thomas Alva Edison in his lab where he worked on his "talking moving machine." |
| Date: | 09 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Little boy at child's training desk with bench seat. |
| Date: | 07 19 1927 |
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| Description: | Left side view of Speck's cotton picker, taken for International Harvester's Engineering Department. |
| Date: | 11 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Emil Andel of the American Bowling Congress demonstrates an automatic foul detector in a bowling alley. |
| Date: | 09 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Toddler sitting at child's training desk, with lid closed. |
| Date: | 09 29 1945 |
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| Description: | Young girl seated at child's training desk with top open showing blackboard. |
| Date: | 10 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Display of Research Products Corporation Filter Fry frying pan covers in a grocery cart. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Front view of "Speck's cotton picker," taken for International Harvester's Engineering Department. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Inventor, B.L. Boboroff, displays his vote recording device to members of the U.S. House of Representatives. |
| Date: | 03 25 1947 |
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| Description: | Metal baby high chair, capable of being disassembled and folded for easy transport. Taken for Halbert M. Wood, WooDick Corporation. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Postcard including a photograph of a device used to transport a queen bee. On it is also an advertisement for ordering queen bees. |
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