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A man works in the New Mexico State Highway Testing Laboratory
A man works in the New Mexico State Highway Testing Laboratory
A man works in the New Mexico State Highway Testing Laboratory

A man works in the New Mexico State Highway Testing Laboratory

Photographer
DateAugust 1939
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensions8 3/16 × 10 1/8 in. (20.8 × 25.7 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Bob Davis
Object numberPA1992.005.358
DescriptionAn employee of the New Mexico State Highway Testing Laboratory works with some equipment in a lab. There are beakers and glass jars lined on counters and a very large glass jug sitting on an elevated shelf with a tube leading from its mouth to the a test tube on the counter below. The man stands on the far end of the counter and looks at some test tubes.
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    Locale
    Testing a "Perhapsitron"
    Associated Press
    January 20, 1958
    Sandia National Laboratories
    Basil K. "Bill" Laskar (April 18, 1921, Chicago, IL - January 13, 2007, Albuquerque, NM)
    ca. 1960
    Sandia High School Science Fair
    Albuquerque Public Schools
    1960
    Eucalyptus
    Jo Whaley
    digital negative 2014, printed 2023