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WISC Staff Members

Date: 12 09 1952
Description: Ralph O. Connor, manager of WISC; Carol Cowan, known professionally as "Barbara Lane," and Henry Buslee, a staff member at WISC, sitting at a table behind ...
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Man Deplaning Airplane following Rose Bowl Trip

Date: 01 02 1953
Description: Football coach Ivy Williamson (?) is interviewed by a man with a radio transmitter on the steps of the airplane upon his return from the Rose Bowl game.
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Governor Kohler's Inauguration

Date: 01 05 1953
Description: Governor Walter Kohler taking the oath of office on the balcony of the Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda. The oath was administered by Chief Justice Oscar M....
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"We Say What We Think Club"

Date: 05 30 1950
Description: WIBA radio personalities, Selma (Mrs. Cornelius) Sorenson, Sibylle (Mrs. George) Mitchell, Isabel (Mrs. August) Baumann, Grace (Mrs. John) Langer, and Ruth...
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WIBA Interview of Exchange Students

Date: 01 10 1950
Description: WIBA provides a radio workshop program featuring foreign exchange students at Wisconsin High School. From left to right are: Jeanne Tierney, interviewer, A...
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Seventeenth Annual Radio Music Festival

Date: 05 06 1950
Description: Professor E.B. Gordon is shown surrounded by some of his 90,000 "radio children," 3,500 of whom sang for him Saturday at the University of Wisconsin stock ...
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Seventeenth Annual Radio Music Festival

Date: 05 06 1950
Description: Professor E.B. Gordon conducts at the seventeenth annual radio music festival. Professor Gordon has a radio class of 90,000 boys and girls who are enrolled...
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Madison Home Show

Date: 09 15 1950
Description: Three men standing at the microphone during a WIBA Radio broadcast from the Madison Home Show.
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Carson Gulley

Date: 07 22 1951
Description: Carson Gulley, chef for UW dormitories, sitting at a table in front of a WIBA microphone. He is wearing a chef's hat and white uniform.
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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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Mobile Civil Defense Test

Date: 10 31 1951
Description: Lineup of parade vehicles at Law Park along Lake Monona for Wisconsin's first civil defense support battalion test in Madison.
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Chevrolet Dealers' Slogan Contest Winner

Date: 11 26 1951
Description: Ralph Hult, president of Hult's Capital Garage, Inc. presents a check to H.A. Habeck who won the Chevrolet Dealers' Association "OK" slogan contest that wa...
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Empty Stocking Club Fund Raising Team

Date: 12 01 1951
Description: Portrait of part of the crew of fund raisers who helped get pledges from radio listeners in a marathon jamboree on WISC and WISC-FM to benefit the Wisco...
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WIBA Studio Site

Date: 02 16 1952
Description: View looking east along Regent Street at the corner of Larkin Street. It is the site of the WIBA radio studio.
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Man Reading Magazine Over Radio

Date: 02 20 1952
Description: John B. Davies, news editor for radio station WKOW, reads into a microphone from the Saturday Evening Post magazine in his hands.
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Youth Radio Workers

Date: 03 14 1952
Description: Group portrait of Madison high school representatives working on a youth radio show. Seated, left to right: Maggie Goldsmith, Edgewood; Alan Freas, West;...
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Dane County Medical Society Committee Members

Date: 03 27 1952
Description: Four members of a Dane County Medical Society Committee are sitting and standing around tape recording machinery. They had edited a sound tape recording of...
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Infant Boy

Date: 03 28 1952
Description: A two-month old infant boy on a bassinet. The sounds of his birth were recorded to be used in a program "Birth of a Baby". The program would be broadcast ...
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"Your Pastor Speaks" Radio Program

Date: 04 30 1952
Description: Four pastors are shown seated around a table with a radio microphone in the studio of WIBA-FM and WIBA-AM. They are planning a program that will be on the ...
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Professor Edgar Gordon

Date: 05 09 1952
Description: Professor Edgar B. Gordon with a large group of grade school youngsters from southern Wisconsin who came to the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus to s...

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