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| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A night view of the window display in the Hansch and Hill Electrical Store, 121 Fourth Avenue. Floor lamps and wall sconces are featured, as are displays o... |
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| Description: | View of an electric chair with straps in a room with wooden walls and a concrete floor. Caption reads: "Electric Chair, Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N.Y." |
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| Description: | Interior view looking down from balcony of the Penn Light and Power Company, and what appear to be enormous generators or turbines. |
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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... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "J. Powers and Weldon King demonstrate 'magic ear' and 'seeing eye' on 'Floating Island' to be used by Gatti-Hallicfrater Expeditio... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A woman and a girl are using an electric washing machine to clean clothing or bedsheets in a basement. The machine is powered by a DELCO-Light Plant system... |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Betz ironing a skirt on a wall-mounted foldout ironing board. A radiator is along the wall near a sink, and a wooden chair is on the right. |
| Date: | 10 1927 |
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| Description: | Freshly pressed clothing hanging on a metal bar off an Apex electric ironing machine. |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Waggoner using a Coffield electric washing machine and wringer to launder clothing on International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm (Harvester ... |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Mrs. J.E. Waggoner passing plaid fabric through a wringer after using an electric washing machine. A washboard is hanging on the wall in the background, an... |
| Date: | 12 15 1981 |
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| Description: | Captain Charles Biele and an unidentified staffer in the Navy facility at Clam Lake known as Project ELF. |
| Date: | 12 15 1981 |
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| Description: | Captain Charles Biele and an unidentified staffer inside the Navy's facility at Clam Lake known as Project ELF. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Meeting of the anti-Castro group Commandos L with radio transmitter and receiver. Four men are sitting around a kitchen table with a radio transmitter and ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of an man sitting in an electric car by Rumsey, founded in 1895. A Rumsey Electric Company Limited General Catalog is depicted alongside the vehicle. |
| Date: | 09 29 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Movie still from the Twentieth Century-Fox film "Shock Treatment," featuring Stuart Whitman (playing Dale Nelson) who is shown undergoing electroshock trea... |
| Date: | 10 1980 |
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| Description: | "Rays from the setting sun illuminate an electric line which stands out against the evening sky." |
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| Description: | View of a bird (Robin) perched on its nest atop an outdoor lighting fixture. |
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| Description: | View of an adult bird (Robin) feeding its young in a nest atop an outdoor lighting fixture. |
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