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Portable X-Ray Machine

Date: 03 17 1949
Description: Interior of trailer with portable X-ray machine. Jean Gibbons, X-ray technician, is shown with unidentified woman getting an X-ray.
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Mobile X-Ray Unit

Date: 05 02 1949
Description: Miss Jeanne Gibbons (left), a technician with the Madison Board of Health, explaining the workings of the mobile X-ray unit to members of the Lakewood Scho...
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WKOW Broadcast

Date: 10 04 1949
Description: Three women discussing the aims and accomplishments of the Madison Business and Professional Women's Club being broadcast on the WKOW "Woman's World" broad...
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American Red Cross Center Blood Center

Date: 07 07 1950
Description: Mrs. John (Emily) Sprague, right, nurse's aide at the American Red Cross Center blood bank, preparing to take the temperature of blood donor, Mrs. Richard ...
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American Red Cross Blood Center

Date: 07 07 1950
Description: Volunteer worker Mrs. Charles (Elnora) Wirth stands at the counter in the American Red Cross Blood Center canteen, while nurses' aide Mrs. Gordon (Mabel) N...
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 11 1950
Description: Three members of the Madison Business and Professional Women's Club, which is celebrating National Business Women's Week, look at a shelf of books. They ar...
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Madison Business and Profesional Women's Club

Date: 01 16 1951
Description: Members of the Madison Business and Professional Women's Club address envelopes to be sent out for the March of Dimes fundraising campaign. Seated, left t...
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Business and Professional Womens' Club Christmas Party

Date: 12 05 1951
Description: Members of the Business and Professional Women's Club stand beside a display of the many gifts to be donated to various organizations providing care for ch...
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Straus New Color Press

Date: 07 30 1952
Description: A new, two-color, lithograph press, capable of running off over 7,000 impressions an hour with color perfectly registered, is examined by Walter Larson (le...
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Advertising Shapes American Life

Date: 02 14 1956
Description: Gilbert Stahl, camera man for Brock Engraving Company, adjusts art in the copy holder. Shown is the camera which will shoot the art; negatives are develope...
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Sears Profit Sharing Employees

Date: 02 18 1956
Description: Group portrait of the nine members longest in standing in the Madison Sears, Roebuck and Company "savings and profit-sharing pension fund." They are, left ...
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University of Wisconsin Student Wives Who Work

Date: 02 07 1956
Description: Fern Theberath is a typist for the State Industrial Commission. She sets the table for her University Dames neighborhood group to meet in her apartment. He...
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National Business and Professional Women's Week

Date: 09 18 1956
Description: Wisconsin governor Walter J. Kohler signs a proclamation for National Business and Professional Women's Week. Looking on are, left to right: Mrs. Herbert E...
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Nels Rasmussen

Date: 01 10 1957
Description: Nels O. Rasmussen is shown at left being presented with a pin in recognition of his 45 years of service with Western Union. He is operations supervisor of ...
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Professional Women in Madison

Date: 01 29 1957
Description: Portrait of Bertha Weisman, Treasurer, Assistant Secretary and Credit Manager of Research Products Corp.
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Red Cross Blood Drive

Date: 07 01 1957
Description: Betty Gregg, chief technologist for the Red Cross in Madison, checks the blood type of volunteer donor George Gill.
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Production still for "Alice in Wonderland" with Kathryn Beaumont

Date: 1951
Description: Child actress Kathryn Beaumont is held upside-down by a Disney studio technician before her tumble is filmed in the first step to rotoscope a sequence for ...
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Production Still for "Alice in Wonderland" with Kathryn Beaumont

Date: 1951
Description: Child actress Kathryn Beaumont falls as one Disney studio technician rotates the cylinder she is on and another technician rocks the platform. Her fall is ...
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Making Diorama Figures

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Description: A woman is sitting at a desk and painting a kneeling figure. Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. State Historical Society of Wis. Staff member working on figures...

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