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Short Wave Communication

Date: 01 26 1956
Description: Sitting in a car, a woman and her daughter are talking to another daughter who is at Albrook Air Force Base in the Canal Zone.
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Kohler Radio Broadcast

Date: 07 29 1954
Description: Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., speaking into the microphone on the WLS stage at the Wisconsin State Fair. At the time the Chicago station was best known f...
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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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Aline W. Hazard Interviewing Woman

Date: 1957
Description: Aline W. Hazard (in hat) of WHA Radio, recording and interviewing Mrs. Robert Jahnke (Corrine) at Forest Acres Deer Farm. Mrs. Jahnke holds a pair of earri...
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Aline W. Hazard

Date: 1956
Description: Studio portrait of Aline W. Hazard wearing earrings and a necklace.
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Len Schmitt Senate Campaign

Date: 08 13 1952
Description: Len Schmitt, former Progressive Party legislator from Merrill, led the Republican opposition to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's bid for re-election. Schmitt a...
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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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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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