UW-Madison faculty and researcher Harry Harlow conducting surrogate mother research. Harlow was best known for his maternal-separation and social isolation experiments on rhesus monkeys, which demonstrated the importance of care-giving and companionship in social and cognitive development. Harlow was director of the UW Primate Laboratory on campus.
Different copies of image reference different dates. Back of a print reads "University of Wisconsin-Madison Prof. Harry Harlow (surrogate mother research) c. 1968." Pencil note reads "Cap Times May 25, 1964". Stamped Photographic Media Center, and references Photomedia ID 4198-C-1 (this negative no longer extant). Another note reads "Crop: X25-711". This cropped version of image found in Archives Negative Collection, Box 687, X25-711. This envelope dates the image as "about 1965."