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| Date: | 08 13 1947 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Professor Henry Ewbank, the first director of Wisconsin Public Radio-WHA, and internationally known as a pioneer in radio education and the tea... |
| Date: | 09 20 1947 |
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| Description: | Fire Chief Edward J. Page is broadcasting instructions to an aerial truck using new mobile radio equipment with driver, Fireman Frank McMahon. The mobile r... |
| Date: | 09 20 1947 |
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| Description: | The new Fire Department 100-foot transmitting tower for the mobile radio system, is pictured at 18 South Webster at the Central Fire Headquarters. |
| Date: | 09 20 1947 |
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| Description: | First Assistant Fire Chief Patrick J. Brown with microphone, and Fireman Grant Prideau receiving radio instructions from Fire Chief Edward J. Page, demonst... |
| Date: | 09 20 1947 |
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| Description: | Fireman Chris Andersen is operating the radio at Central Fire Headquarters, 18 South Webster Street, dispatching fire trucks from his office. |
| Date: | 05 26 1948 |
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| Description: | WIBA-FM, 45,000 watts, tower was built at Blue Mounds Park, and radiated power starting about June 10, 1948. WIBA was established in 1925 by The Capital... |
| Date: | 07 19 1948 |
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| Description: | The higher antenna of the WIBA tower and transmitting station increased the power of the station for the newly operational FM transmission at the Blue Moun... |
| Date: | 08 18 1948 |
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| Description: | Unidentified young man (Landsman?) seated at a table with a WIBA microphone. |
| Date: | 02 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Unidentified minister at pulpit equipped with WIBU microphone. One of four images of different ministers. |
| Date: | 06 21 1949 |
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| Description: | Madison Community Chest sponsored Farley tract community garden. Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Blankenburg are listening to the radio while working in their plot. |
| Date: | 09 20 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Florence Marquart, recently from Milwaukee, the new director of resident girls at the YWCA, shown at the left, enjoying a radio program with some of t... |
| Date: | 03 20 1951 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Wesley Morrison of 403 Rogers Street talks on the phone with the Dane County Red Cross while asking for assistance in obtaining a leave for her son, C... |
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| Description: | Naval students operate a radio while an officer looks on at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). |
| Date: | 07 20 1952 |
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| Description: | Ralph Hult, president of Hult's garage and the co-sponsor of the Madison Soap Box Derby, poses with the top winners. At left is champion Larry Laverty who ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | First car equipped with a radio to operate in Wisconsin. This view of the front shows the aerial antenna which spans the hood and extends over the roof of ... |
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