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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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Crunching Numbers

Date: 11 10 1963
Description: Male students run data cards through a computer to match couples for a school dance.
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Card Punch Machines

Date: 11 23 1968
Description: New punch card machines installed in city hall are put to use.
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Data Processing

Date: 11 10 1960
Description: A student studies key punch operation in a data processing class at Milwaukee Vocational and Adult Schools. She is seated at a very large computer.
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Wautoma WERC Hearing

Date: 1967
Description: Migrant farm workers testify at the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (WERC) hearing after a strike in Bancroft. Seated on the left is Obreros Unid...
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Flying Desk

Date: 1964
Description: A woman working on a Goldwater campaign airplane. She is wearing a Goldwater hat, and a stuffed elephant is sitting on the desk with a Goldwater pin attach...
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Service Counter at Mt. Victory Service Plaza

Date: 1962
Description: Two men speak across the service counter at Mt. Victory truck stop. Several posters and a map hang on the wall, and a cash register sits on the counter.
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Wisconsin State Journal Workers

Date: 03 09 1961
Description: Linotype workers sitting at individual stations in the Wisconsin State Journal building.
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Wisconsin State Journal Workers

Date: 03 09 1961
Description: A worker at the Wisconsin State Journal building reading copy from a teletype machine.
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Give 'till It Helps...Yes, Someone Cares

Date: 10 03 1961
Description: The Madison Chapter of Certified Public Accountants, donate about three nights of work a week to auditing the United Givers fund. Among them are Donald Nel...
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John Salter and Ella Josephine Baker

Date: 11 1963
Description: John R. Salter, Jr. and Ella Josephine Baker confer at a civil rights speaking trip through the Southwest and Midwest. They're looking at ticker tape.
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Moving Day at CUNA Mutual

Date: 09 30 1960
Description: Friday was moving day for the CUNA Mutual Insurance Society. Ed Reynolds of Reynolds Transfer and Storage Co., which handled the muscular end of the proces...
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CUNA Mutual's Moving Day Goes Smoothly

Date: 09 30 1960
Description: Maintenance men William Glasser, left front, Truax Park; Lou Freiling, second from right, 3514 Hargrove ST; and Earl Kroetz, right, 3916 Vernon Avenue, cle...
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Moving Day at CUNA Mutual

Date: 09 30 1960
Description: When their furniture finally arrived at the new CUNA Mutual Insurance Society building, these three women went to work straightening it up so that they'd b...
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Woman Working in Office in France

Date: 12 1962
Description: Woman are working at desks in an office.
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Man Working in Office in France

Date: 12 1962
Description: Man working in an office with office equipment.
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Men and Women Working in Office Space in France

Date: 12 1962
Description: Men and women working in an office space in France.

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