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Gemini Interview

Date: 08 17 1965
Description: NBC News broadcaster Merrill Mueller interviewing Lockheed engineer Bud Zeller about the Gemini Agena Target Vehicle. The interview was part of a public re...
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Gemini 8 Astronauts

Date: 03 1966
Description: Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong (right) and David R. Scott, the two-man crew scheduled to fly Gemini 8, visiting the Lockheed plant where the Agena target veh...
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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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John Muir Clock

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Description: Detail of clock design by John Muir.
Photograph

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...
Book or Pamphlet

Wisconsin Residents' Attitude Toward the Viet Nam War

Date: 08 1966
Description: Front cover of a report by The Wisconsin Survey Research Laboratory on their public opinion research regarding Wisconsinites' attitudes toward the Vietnam ...
Postcard

Grand Hotel

Date: 1911
Description: View from intersection towards a hotel on the corner, with an electric sign. An automobile is parked at the curb, and a public scale is on the sidewalk. Ca...
Photograph

John Muir Clock

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Description: Detail of clock design by John Muir.
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John Muir Clock

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Description: Detail of clock design by John Muir, showing a book resting on a holder in the shape of a gear.
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Sewage Treatment Plant Laboratory

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Description: The interior of the sewage treatment plant laboratory. A microscope and many glass beakers are sitting on the counter.
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Children Gathered Around Scale

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Description: Group of small children gathered around a table outdoors near a building on which a toddler is being weighed using a baby scale.
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John Muir Clock

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Description: Clock on display at the Wisconsin Historical Society. The clock was made by John Muir while a student at the University of Wisconsin in 1860.
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Scientist in Sewage Treatment Plant Laboratory

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Description: A scientist leans over a microscope in the sewage treatment plant laboratory. Glass beakers and other tools and equipment are sitting on the counter.
Historical Essay

Flu Quarantine Sign

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Influenza quarantine placard, c. 1910-1924, from the period of the "Spanish flu" epidemic. (Museum object #1978.404.50)
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Theresa Post Office Opening

Date: 07 1985
Description: "Dr. Greg Langenfeld congratulated Postmaster Paul 'Skip' Trauba when the new Theresa Post Office was opened."
Magazine or Periodical

Edison's Electric Generator in Scientific American

Date: 10 18 1879
Description: Depiction of Edison's Electric Generator in the weekly journal of practical information, art, science, chemistry and manufactures. It is an electrical gene...
Photograph

Weighing and Measuring Campaign, Lincoln School

Date: 1918
Description: Seven women in white uniforms measuring five children, including one infant. Caption reads: "Lincoln School, Madison, Wis. Weighing and Measuring Campaign ...
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Increase Lapham Examining a Meteorite

Date: 1871
Description: Stereograph portrait of Increase Allen Lapham (1811-1875) examining the sixth fragment of a 33 lb. meteorite found in Trenton, Washington County, Wisconsin...
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Earl C. Smith Giving a Speech

Date: 07 31 1941
Description: Earl C. Smith, president of the Illinois Agricultural Association, speaks into a microphone at an event to honor Mr. Clarence Dauberman for creating the fi...
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Alan Shepard

Date: 1966
Description: Astronaut Alan Shepard (second from the left), then the head of NASA's astronaut office, talks with the press at Cape Canaveral before the Gemini 8. On Apr...

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