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Ediphones on Display

Date: 1936
Description: Office supply show sponsored by Bill Goff, Inc., featuring Ediphones produced by Thomas A. Edison, Inc.
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Farmer and Computer

Date: 01 27 1960
Description: A farmer observes the processed results of the workings of an early computer or data machine. The machine was used to process and to organize data on a her...
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Office Supplies Store

Date: 06 22 1927
Description: The interior of the first floor of Blied Office Supplies Store. Three men and a women are behind counters and a desk.
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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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Microfilm Laboratory, State Office Building

Date: 02 11 1942
Description: Three men are making microfilm copies of birth records in the microfilm department at the Wisconsin State Office Building (Capitol Annex), 1 West Wilson St...
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King Street Arcade Office

Date: 07 29 1941
Description: Office interior on the second floor of the Capital City Bank Building, 111 King Street, also known as the King Street Arcade, with two female office worker...
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Auto License Bureau

Date: 05 17 1939
Description: Wisconsin Auto License Bureau Card Typing Department, located at 16-20 East Doty Street. Women government employees are sitting at desks, while a male supe...
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Wisconsin General Hospital Records Room

Date: 03 30 1938
Description: Wisconsin General Hospital records room, with banks of filing cabinets.
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C.U.N.A. Office

Date: 04 05 1938
Description: Remodeled C.U.N.A. office, 142 Gilman Street, from far end, with eight people working at their desks.
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Regina Groves at Her Desk

Date: 02 17 1938
Description: Regina Groves (Mrs. Earl Barnhart), sitting at her desk, operating an interdepartment communication system at the Groves School for Secretaries. Behind her...
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Dane County Title Company Office

Date: 01 20 1938
Description: Interior view of Dane County Title Company office, 109 S. Fairchild Street, with 11 people, some of them using typewriters. A water fountain (bubbler) is a...
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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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Woman at Typewriter

Date: 04 05 1937
Description: A man watching as a woman demonstrates typing on an L.C. Smith typewriter at Jones Typewriter Co., 506 State Street.
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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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