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Kidder Radio Shop (Panorama, Left Side)

Date: 12 23 1932
Description: Left interior of Kidder Radio Shop, 113 N. Baldwin Street. Shows two men working on radios.
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Wisconsin Telephone Company Antenna

Date: 04 13 1948
Description: Wisconsin Telephone Company, 122 West Main Street, showing an antenna on top of the building for use with mobile telephone service.
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Wisconsin Telephone Company Car

Date: 04 13 1948
Description: Ford "Woody" station wagon test car with antenna for mobile telephone, on West Washington Avenue in front of the Grace Episcopal Church. Also included in t...
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New Fire Department Mobile Radio Equipment

Date: 09 20 1947
Description: Fire Chief Edward J. Page is broadcasting instructions to an aerial truck using new mobile radio equipment with driver, Fireman Frank McMahon. The mobile r...
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Fire Department Mobile Radio Equipment

Date: 09 20 1947
Description: The new Fire Department 100-foot transmitting tower for the mobile radio system, is pictured at 18 South Webster at the Central Fire Headquarters.
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Fire Department Mobile Radio Equipment

Date: 09 20 1947
Description: First Assistant Fire Chief Patrick J. Brown with microphone, and Fireman Grant Prideau receiving radio instructions from Fire Chief Edward J. Page, demonst...
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Fire Department Mobile Radio Equipment

Date: 09 20 1947
Description: Fireman Chris Andersen is operating the radio at Central Fire Headquarters, 18 South Webster Street, dispatching fire trucks from his office.
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League of Women Voters Statewide Radio Program

Date: 09 10 1951
Description: Frances Hurst (left) and Marcella Gill (right) listen to voice recordings at the WIBA radio broadcasting studio. Hurst was chairman of the WHA radio progra...
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Naval Student Operating Telegraph

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Description: One Naval student operates a telegraph while another student observes, listening with earphones, at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). A typewriter is...
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Man Testing Telegraph Equipment

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Description: A man testing telegraph equipment at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio).

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