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| Date: | 11 24 1933 |
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| Description: | Lucille Bump, beauty operator, applying a mudpack to the face of Cedric Parker, Capital Times newsman at Mrs. Wengel's Marinello Shop, 125 State Street. |
| Date: | 11 24 1933 |
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| Description: | Cedric Parker, Capital Times reporter, gets his hair curled with a permanent wave machine attached to his hair, at Mrs. Wengel's Marinello Shop, 125 State ... |
| Date: | 12 04 1931 |
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| Description: | Technicians administer a lie detector test at District Attorney Fred Risser's office to be used in the James Corcoran poisoning case. |
| Date: | 11 25 1947 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Rexair (vacuum cleaner) Company male and female employees in the Pompeii Room of the Loraine Hotel, with a live turkey and a poster that ... |
| Date: | 12 20 1944 |
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| Description: | A mechanic in the service department of Hefty Sales Corporation is preparing to do a complete overhaul of a washing machine. |
| Date: | 07 08 1945 |
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| Description: | August Carsten, a builder of one of the few roll-away model trains and villages in the country, is shown at the main control of the electric operated model... |
| Date: | 05 15 1952 |
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| Description: | Kenneth Duckett and Alan E. Kent, historians employed by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, using the microfilm reader in the Society's old, first ... |
| Date: | 02 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Electrician feeding cable into the electrical box on the north second floor hallway of th Wisconsin Historical Society. Changes in the library delivery are... |
| Date: | 09 17 1948 |
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| Description: | Harry Hall, 1848 Yahara Place, is shown watering his lawn with a hose attached to a electric air compressor which is pumping water from an eight foot pipe ... |
| Date: | 12 07 1948 |
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| Description: | The new Western Union equipment in the Madison office which is connected with an 'electric brain' in Minneapolis, permitting faster transmission of message... |
| Date: | 04 07 1949 |
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| Description: | Robert Muchlenbruch demonstrates a new ironer to Eleanor Stoops and her daughter Barbie at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show in the East High Schoo... |
| Date: | 04 07 1949 |
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| Description: | Charles M. Mickelson is loading an automatic washer, with the companion dryer at the left, at the Madison Home Appliance and Radio Show in the East High Sc... |
| Date: | 07 19 1949 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin summer reading clinic. Jack Ackerman, a teacher from Manitowoc, giving a vision screening test using telebinoculars. |
| Date: | 11 06 1951 |
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| Description: | Madison West High School physics teacher Frederick Schuler works with an oscilloscope. |
| 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: | 04 22 1959 |
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| Description: | William H. Rietow, Jr. and Frank D. Hess stand in front of Electric City, a new appliance store at 4409 Monona Drive. |
| Date: | 02 25 1960 |
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| Description: | Harold Keller holds a Fotoscope which indicates when engine oil needs changing. |
| Date: | 04 05 1961 |
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| Description: | One of the high-voltage towers that intersected Sherman Avenue between Roth Street and Aberg Avenue that was removed to make way for expansion of the North... |
| Date: | 03 23 1961 |
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| Description: | John (Cy) Ong, owner and operator of a blasting contracting service, posing with a push-button detonator ready to set off a dynamite blast. |
| Date: | 10 23 1964 |
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| Description: | View of Joe E. Miller with his head on a pillow trying out a new hand held "communication system unit, which allows him to change the channel on the telev... |
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