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| Date: | 12 18 1956 |
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| Description: | Robert Jensen typing while sitting in a wheelchair. He was paralyzed by spinal polio after serving in the United States Army in Korea. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A man, possibly John Forbes, working at a roll-top desk in his office over the old Fire Hall. A dog is sitting on a chair in the lower left. Books on the s... |
| Date: | 12 12 1945 |
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| Description: | Group of five women in class at the Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries, 502 State Street at Gilman Street. There is a large window in the background, s... |
| Date: | 02 25 1948 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Joseph (Betty Pruett) Farrington, former police reporter, recalls work days with Russell B. Pyre, current reporter. She was a police reporter from 191... |
| Date: | 06 17 1948 |
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| Description: | Roy Matson, Editor, and Rex Karney, political writer, both of the Wisconsin State Journal, pictured in Matson's office prior to their leaving to att... |
| Date: | 12 07 1948 |
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| Description: | Geraldine Sommer, foreground, and Frances Zeier, two operators in the Madison office who have been trained to operate transmitting machines for the new spe... |
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| Description: | Harold Gauer is sitting at a desk wearing a pinstriped suit. His left foot is bare and "typing" at a typewriter, while he reads a note and talks on the tel... |
| Date: | 08 09 1950 |
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| Description: | Jack Harned, 1950 West High School graduate, uses a telephone and typewriter at his summer job as a reporter at the Wisconsin State Journal. |
| Date: | 11 13 1950 |
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| Description: | Two members of the University of Wisconsin YWCA prepare for the National Assembly of the Student Christian Association Movement to be held in Miami, Florid... |
| Date: | 03 12 1951 |
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| Description: | Two Madison senior girl scouts work on housing arrangements for the upcoming Senior Girl Scout Conference of Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois. Seat... |
| Date: | 10 03 1951 |
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| Description: | Doris Turner of 929 East Johnson Street sits at a desk while typing. She is the private secretary for Thomas E. Coleman and Joseph A. Coleman, president an... |
| Date: | 11 12 1951 |
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| Description: | Robert Lawrence works as an apprentice mechanic at Royal Typewriter Company after his recovery from tuberculosis. |
| Date: | 10 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Ardis Kirkpatrick, a private secretary to Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Grover Broadfoot, is wearing the costume of an 1800's typist while using a Sholes... |
| Date: | 01 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Jane Sulzer is the seretary to George Watson, Wisconsin State Superintendent in the Department of Public Instruction, and to Russell Lewis, Assistant State... |
| Date: | 01 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Evelyn Tranmel, secretary for Governor Walter J. Kohler. |
| Date: | 03 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mary Stewart, a woman who recently applied for a job through the Women's Service Exchange and is now employed as a secretary to the director of... |
| Date: | 03 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Mary Ann O'Loughlen sits at her desk in the State Office building where she is employed as a typist by the Traveling Library Department, Free Library Commi... |
| Date: | 11 12 1957 |
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| Description: | Virgil Chadwick from Cuba City sits at his typewriter at Lake View Sanatorium where he is a tuberculosis patient. Mr. Chadwick is taking a writing course t... |
| Date: | 11 28 1947 |
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| Description: | State Historical Society of Wisconsin Director, Cliff Lord, sitting at his desk and smoking a pipe. |
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