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UW Summer Reading Clinic

Date: 07 19 1949
Description: University of Wisconsin summer reading clinic. Jack Ackerman, a teacher from Manitowoc, giving a vision screening test using telebinoculars.
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Television Station

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Description: Michael Henry is seated at the mixing board at a local television station. There is a cable access program playing on the monitor above him called "Glad To...
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Truax Field Radar

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Description: Man wearing microphone and headphones seated before a radar screen.
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Hamilton Beach Soda Mixers

Date: 11
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm (right) stands with an unidentified man in the Governor's office while looking at two Hamilton Beach soda mixers on a table. The H...
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Tuberculosis Research in Laboratory

Date: 11 15 1950
Description: University of Wisconsin professor J.W. Williams, and Mrs. Winifred Saunders, research associate, work with an electrophoresis instrument in a laboratory in...
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Hearing Impaired Children

Date: 03 02 1951
Description: Two children with a hearing impairment, each seated in their mother's lap, learn about an instrument designed to help them hear. It will be used in an upco...
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Madison Teachers — Education Week

Date: 11 06 1951
Description: Madison West High School physics teacher Frederick Schuler works with an oscilloscope.
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Two Men Operate Electronic Equipment

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Description: Elevated view of two men operating electronic equipment at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). One of the men is wearing headphones, and there is a lon...
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Wisconsin Lions Clubs Light Bulb Sale

Date: 09 29 1954
Description: Governor Walter Kohler buys the first bag of light bulbs from Ed Steul (center), Madison, Lions' district governor; and H. M. Schmid (right), New Glarus, c...
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Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Woman Pinning Pattern

Date: 1946
Description: Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with a woman standing over a table, pinning a sewing pattern piece to cloth. An ironing board and bookca...
Book or Pamphlet

Northern Electrical Manufacturing Company

Date: 1902
Description: A bird's-eye view illustration of the Northern Electrical Manufacturing Company. The company was founded in 1895 by four Madison businessmen, Conrad M. Con...
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Electrical Panel

Date: 1899
Description: Cyanotype of an electrical panel in the State Historical Library building. The panel was located on the second floor outside of the library.
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Catholic Youth Week

Date: 10 20 1958
Description: JoAnn Hunold and Mike Reider present skits over a public address system at Edgewood High school to explain the aims of Catholic Youth Week.
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Interior, Catholic Church

Date: 1912
Description: View down aisle between pews towards the altar in the interior of the Catholic Church. Ornate chandeliers hang from the ceiling. On the left in an arched n...
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New Appliance Store in Monona

Date: 04 22 1959
Description: William H. Rietow, Jr. and Frank D. Hess stand in front of Electric City, a new appliance store at 4409 Monona Drive.
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Service Station Attendent with Fotoscope

Date: 02 25 1960
Description: Harold Keller holds a Fotoscope which indicates when engine oil needs changing.
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Gifts For Neurological Patients

Date: 09 29 1960
Description: Pauline Dubner, a patient at the Wisconsin Neurological Foundation, poses in her hospital bed next to a new record player in a case. Behind her stand the f...
Postcard

Thompson Tent Show

Date: 1907
Description: Photographic postcard of the Thompson Tent Show. A tent, a tall wagon and a truck that runs the generator are set up in a field or park with houses and tre...
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Removal of High-Voltage Towers

Date: 04 05 1961
Description: One of the high-voltage towers that intersected Sherman Avenue between Roth Street and Aberg Avenue that was removed to make way for expansion of the North...
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Blasting Contractor

Date: 03 23 1961
Description: John (Cy) Ong, owner and operator of a blasting contracting service, posing with a push-button detonator ready to set off a dynamite blast.

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