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| Date: | 05 17 1950 |
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| Description: | Bridal register book window display at Manchester's, Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street, "All the gifts that she desires will be listed in our 'Bride Has Whispere... |
| Date: | 05 17 1950 |
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| Description: | "The Bride Has Whispered" bridal registry booth, 1st floor, at Manchester's, Inc., 2 East Mifflin Street, showing a desk and 2 chairs surrounded by floral ... |
| Date: | 02 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Library staff members at the new consolidated service desk in the Historical Society Library Reading Room. Microfilm cubicles have not yet been installed ... |
| Date: | 04 01 1957 |
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| Description: | The State Historical Society of Wisconsin's Historymobile at the Clark Service Station, 2631 University Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Tschudy (Jake and Irene),... |
| Date: | 02 15 1954 |
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| Description: | As part of Co-ed's Week, an event designed to combine features of special interest to college women, three University of Wisconsin women look over a copy o... |
| Date: | 09 17 1956 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Robert Schacht, the director of the University of Wisconsin's Bureau of Information and Program services. He was the principal speaker at a clu... |
| Date: | 09 15 1959 |
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| Description: | The Park Hotel was host to 26 Madison area Kroger store managers where seminars were held to study shoplifting. City, county and area law enforcement offic... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the camp, including a numbered index of the buildings. Used as an application form for a forestry workshop. Founded in 1944, located at 519 ... |
| Date: | 12 22 1953 |
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| Description: | Chief of weather operations, L.A. Joos, is on the telephone, while W.C. Williamson is standing at a slanted desk checking one of several weather maps. They... |
| Date: | 12 22 1953 |
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| Description: | Harold Evans launching a weather balloon from the pilot balloon shelter on top of the Truax Field control tower. |
| Date: | 01 28 1954 |
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| Description: | A student is looking through the card catalog (or what the newspaper calls "the library's key, a simple cross-filer system") at the Madison Free Library at... |
| Date: | 01 28 1954 |
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| Description: | A man is reading a book while sitting in a chair at the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 01 28 1954 |
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| Description: | A girl is sitting and working with material in the reference room of the Madison Free Library at 206 North Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 02 09 1954 |
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| Description: | The Madison Free Library bookmobile is pulling up in the Lakeview Heights neighborhood, a new city housing development. The bookmobile is an outfitted bus.... |
| Date: | 07 13 1954 |
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| Description: | Presentation of the Master Television Engineer award to Cloren Smith, Chief Engineer at WKOW-TV in Madison. Smith is seen holding a mounted cup on a studio... |
| Date: | 09 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Lee Wesner of WISC watches the clock, while using one hand on a switch while the other hand is pausing a vinyl record on a spinning turntable. |
| Date: | 09 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Jon Luck is shown wearing headphones, is surrounded by turntables, a microphone, and notes and scripts for commercials, while broadcasting "The Madison Hou... |
| Date: | 09 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Jim Walters of WMFM holding a Wisconsin State Journal newspaper as he is watching a vinyl record begin. He interlaces music and comments on the news... |
| Date: | 09 22 1957 |
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| Description: | A young woman is peering into a drawer of the card catalog of the Madison Public Library. |
| Date: | 09 22 1957 |
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| Description: | A man at the Madison Public Library is sitting at a table with reference books while using a pencil on paper, doing research. A stand for atlases is behind... |
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