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Price Control Broadcast, WRJN

Date: 08 18 1946
Description: Pro price-control broadcast at WRJN. A woman and two men stand encircling a microphone holding scripts. A clock is on the wall behind them and a piano [?] ...
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WTMJ Radio Booth

Date: 1977
Description: "Radio personality, Gordon Hinkley, appeared in the WTMJ radio booth at the Wisconsin State Fair."
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WIBA Sports Telephones

Date: 05 24 1957
Description: The WIBA automatic telephone system which will give latest baseball scores is tested on first day of operation. Shown testing the phones are Norman Hahn, W...
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WIBA Sports Telephones

Date: 05 24 1957
Description: Sue Collins jots down scores she hears transmitted by the new recorder machine as radio station WIBA's automatic telephone system is in operation for the f...
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Marc Blitzstein Publicity Still

Date: 1943
Description: Marc Blitzstein in U.S. Army Air Corps uniform at a piano, singing into a BBC microphone. Caption on reverse of image reads "London, 1943".
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Radio Guinea

Date: 02 05 1944
Description: Gordon Williams, of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and Stanley J. Quinn of the Mutual Broadcasting System, pose with two indigenous men in front ...
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Obey Replies to Reagan

Date: 08 30 1986
Description: Congressman David R. Obey delivering the Democrat's reply to a Labor Day speech by President Ronald Reagan.
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Robert Doyle

Date: 1945
Description: Robert Doyle, Journal war correspondent, took his wire recorder aboard the battleship Wisconsin while it was part of Admiral Halsey's 3rd fleet off ...
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Bob Barry at The Beatles Press Conference

Date: 09 04 1964
Description: Radio disc jockey "Beatle" Bob Barry squats in front of the table where The Beatles are seated for a press conference before a concert.
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The Beatles at Press Conference

Date: 09 04 1964
Description: The Beatles at a press conference in advance of their concert that evening. Pictured: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison. Not pictured: Ringo...
Poster

"The Voice of Hollywood" Poster

Date: 1931
Description: Poster for the short "The Voice of Hollywood" starring Robert Montgomery, Lola Lane, and Jean Hersholt, among others. There is a woman's face and microphon...
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Charles E. Broughton Delivering Election Returns

Date: 11 08 1932
Description: Charles E. Broughton delivering election returns over WHBL.
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Niebuhr Speaking On the Radio

Date: 01 1950
Description: Reinhold Niebuhr speaking into a radio microphone for the station WCFM at a dinner for Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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Lions Club Constitution Day Luncheon

Date: 09 16 1953
Description: Speaker at podium giving a talk at the Lions Club Constitution Day luncheon in front of WISC microphones.
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WKOW Radio Transmission Room

Date: 09 22 1953
Description: WKOW radio transmission room.
Manuscript

WHA Radio Logo

Date: 1936
Description: WHA Radio logo from a 1936-1937 Wisconsin College of the Air course guide.
Manuscript

NBC Interdepartment Correspondence

Date: 12 07 1949
Description: A typed note to Syd Eiges from Sam Kaufman regarding TV mystery shows. In the note, Kaufman suggests turning the radio show "Dragnet" into a television sho...
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Early Vacuum Tube

Date: 
Description: A vacuum tube built by Cyril Moreau Jansky for WHA radio station at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
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Madison Radio Disc Jockeys

Date: 09 08 1957
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.
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Madison Radio Disc Jockeys

Date: 09 08 1957
Description: Jon Luck is shown wearing headphones, is surrounded by turntables, a microphone, and notes and scripts for commercials, while broadcasting "The Madison Hou...

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