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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Jean Hoffman looks over a printed circuit board in the foreground, with a map of Madison, Wisconsin on the wall behind her. |
| 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: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Pile of original first floor light fixtures photographed during the remodeling of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin building during the summer. |
| 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: | 11 15 1950 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin professor J.W. Williams, and Mrs. Winifred Saunders, research associate, work with an electrophoresis instrument in a laboratory in... |
| Date: | 03 02 1951 |
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| Description: | Two children with a hearing impairment, each seated in their mother's lap, learn about an instrument designed to help them hear. It will be used in an upco... |
| 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: | 10 20 1958 |
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| Description: | JoAnn Hunold and Mike Reider present skits over a public address system at Edgewood High school to explain the aims of Catholic Youth Week. |
| 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: | 08 03 1957 |
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| Description: | A mother and her children looking up at the top of the Capitol dome as the statue "Wisconsin" gets painted. They are on a street corner by posts for traff... |
| Date: | 08 29 1958 |
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| Description: | R. E. Gilbert posing behind a desk-sized IBM machine, known as a integrated-data processor. Gilbert holds in his hand a punched paper roll containing up-to... |
| Date: | 08 29 1958 |
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| Description: | North Western railroad yard employee John Eith is shown with punch cards in hand by a new IBM "accounting apparatus". He is "awaiting information from one ... |
| Date: | 11 21 1958 |
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| Description: | A police officer instructs two cadets on the operation of radar equipment and the proper way to talk to violators. The officer is holding a tuning fork nea... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Shirley Jeffrey standing and watching an automatic projector which accompanied an exhibit. The projector was adapted by Harry Lichter of the museum staff. ... |
| Date: | 01 15 1959 |
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| Description: | Robert Butler, a public health technologist with the city health department, is examining a used filter. He is atop the second floor of the City-County bui... |
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