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Movie Theater Speaker

Date: 02 25 1939
Description: Parkway Theatre, 6-10 W. Mifflin Street, side view of speaker.
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McCoy's Ice Cream Parlor

Date: 06 02 1937
Description: McCoy's Ice Cream Parlor, 507 State Street, showing booths and jukebox.
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Reed Sound Service Car

Date: 03 03 1937
Description: John P. Reed's Sound Service car with two loud speaker horns and a sign on top. The automobile is a Plymouth provided by Gillespie Blumer of Madison.
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Badger Theater Group

Date: 01 20 1934
Description: Group portrait of three women and two men who are in the Badger theater group in Mt. Horeb participating in the Dane County rural drama tournament. Left to...
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Esquire Club Dining Room

Date: 12 17 1946
Description: Interior view of the Esquire Club dining room including a soda fountain counter with a countertop jukebox. There is a piano in the background. 2615 Sherman...
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Rexair Corporation Employees

Date: 03 29 1950
Description: Group portrait of Rexair Corporation employees, 2802 East Johnson Street, attending a sales meeting at the Wings Inn. They made vacuum cleaners. (Wurlitzer...
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Women Dancing

Date: 03 10 1944
Description: Two sets of twins dance at the recreation center for school pupils at the Cottage Grove Town Hall. Included on the left are Jean and Joan Hanson of Cottage...
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WHA Summer Radio Workshop

Date: 07 12 1944
Description: Three persons at the summer radio workshop sponsored by WHA Radio on the University of Wisconsin campus. Jack Steel shows Senta Lorenz on the left and Ruth...
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Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show

Date: 04 07 1949
Description: Barbara Lampert, a University of Wisconsin senior, tunes a 1921 model radio next to her new radio-record player at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Sho...
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Madison Summer Workshop for Deaf Children

Date: 07 26 1950
Description: Mrs. Ella Zilner plays a record of a dog barking for students at the Lapham School summer workshop for deaf children. Listening to the recording are Dianne...
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U.W. Houses Nursery and Play School

Date: 07 30 1951
Description: Six children are sitting on a canvas with Mrs. Ralph Huitt while listening to a record at U.W. Houses Outdoor Nursery and Play School. Children include Cyn...
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Electronic "Train-ear" at Easter Seal Cerebal Paalsy Center

Date: 03 26 1952
Description: Dr. Marie Brittin, at left, demonstrates the electronic "train-ear" to Bernard Gill, center, and Kenneth Snee, right, fund chairman and executive secretary...
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Nakoma School Graduation Parties

Date: 06 10 1953
Description: Dick Guerny, left, and Gordon Doefer, Nakoma School eighth grade graduating students, stand next to a jukebox during a dance at Nakoma Country Club.
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Bachelors

Date: 02 08 1956
Description: Bachelors James Fagan and Harry Kessenich, Jr. looking at one of many record albums.
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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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YW Teen-Canteen

Date: 01 22 1959
Description: Activities at the Teen-Canteen at the YWCA, 122 State Street, are sponsored by the Junior High Y-Teen clubs in Madison. Four girls enjoying some records in...
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Speech and Hearing Clinic Open House

Date: 09 26 1963
Description: A University of Wisconsin student demonstrating a hearing test during the open house of the speech and hearing clinic. The clinic is now operating under on...
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Book Signing Party at the Club Tavern

Date: 06 13 1975
Description: A man is looking at a copy of E.E. LeMasters' book, Blue-Collar Aristocrats, at a book signing party at the Club Tavern. The author is holding the b...
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Children at U.W. Nursery School

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: Shelly Felt playing a vinyl recording on a portable record player. A holder with records is standing next to the record player.
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Finger Painting Class at Nichols School

Date: 01 05 1955
Description: Third-grade student Amanda Enos (of 6215 Midwood Avenue) working on a finger painting project at Nichols School.

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