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Reynolds Pen Display

Date: 12 12 1945
Description: Window display of Reynolds "miracle" ballpoint pen being sold for $12.50 at W.T. Grant Co., 19-21 South Pinckney Street. Milton Reynolds became the first A...
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Rennebohm Drug Store

Date: 05 23 1945
Description: Display window at Rennebohm Drugstore (site unknown) featuring a 14 karat gold Eversharp pen and pencil set "it's the answer to the $64 question."
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Madison News Agency

Date: 11 10 1943
Description: Madison News Agency, 446 West Gilman Street, office interior with room on left showing a man at a desk, and the room on the right showing two women at a de...
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Telephone Switchboard Operators

Date: 06 25 1937
Description: Women switchboard operators, wearing headsets with microphones at the Wisconsin Telephone Company, located at 17 S. Fairchild Street. There are rotary dire...
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Stemp Typewriter Company Window

Date: 11 21 1935
Description: Window display of Royal portable typewriters at the Stemp Typewriter Company, 533 State Street.
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CUNA Office

Date: 12 05 1935
Description: Three employees (one man, two women) of CUNA (Credit Union National Association) sitting at desks in their second floor office, 142 East Gilman Street. Sho...
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Stemp Typewriter Window

Date: 03 25 1935
Description: Stemp Typewriter Company, 533 State Street, with window display of Royal typewriters.
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Royal Typewriters in Display Window

Date: 03 31 1932
Description: Royal Portable Typewriters on display in the window at Brewington Typewriter Company, 533 State Street. The name was later changed to Stemp Typewriter Comp...
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Royal Typewriters in Display Window

Date: 03 31 1932
Description: Royal Portable Typewriters on display in the window at Brewington Typewriter Company, 533 State Street. The name was later changed to Stemp Typewriter Comp...
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Typewriter Window Display

Date: 02 02 1932
Description: Window display of Royal typewriters at the Brewington Typewriter Company, 533 State Street. The name was later changed to the Stemp Typewriter Company.
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Royal Typewriter Window Display

Date: 02 02 1932
Description: Royal typewriter window display at Brewington Typewriter Company, 533 State Street. The name was later changed to the Stemp Typewriter Company.
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William J. Danielson at His Desk

Date: 01 12 1932
Description: William J. Danielson, manager of the Theronoid Company, sitting at his desk. The company was located in Room 707-708, State Bank of Wisconsin, 1 West Main ...
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Grace Putnam

Date: 12 26 1931
Description: Grace Putnam, executive secretary of the Madison Woman's Club, in the Woman's Building, 240 W. Gilman street.
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Governor Philip F. La Follette at the Telegraph

Date: 11 01 1931
Description: Governor Philip F. La Follette presses a telegraph key at the Western Union Office to open an event in Green Bay.
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Mr. Bellam and George O'Connell

Date: 10 14 1931
Description: Mr. Bellam and George O'Connell discuss the "Forget-Me-Not" campaign for Disabled American Veterans.
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Brewington Typewriter Company Display Window

Date: 06 08 1931
Description: Brewington Typewriter Company, 533 State Street, window display featuring Royal typewriters and an adding machine. The name was later changed to Stemp Type...
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Brewington Typewriter Company Display Window

Date: 06 08 1931
Description: Brewington Typewriter Company, 533 State Street, window display featuring Royal Typewriters. The name was later changed to Stemp Typewriter Company.
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Around-the-world Telephone Call

Date: 03 18 1931
Description: Norman Clapp, Appleton High School student, sitting in the governor's chair, represents Wisconsin in the around-the-world telephone conversation held in co...
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Typing at Dickinson Secretarial School

Date: 01 15 1931
Description: Mrs. Florence J. Blumer, standing, giving individual instruction in typewriting on a Woodstock typewriter to Miss Letha Luchsinger, of Belleville, a studen...
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General Laboratories Mailing & Filing Room

Date: 07 16 1929
Description: Nine women working in General Laboratories mailing and filing room, located at 124 South Dickinson Street.

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