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WMAQ Radio Station

Date: 1924
Description: Interior of WMAQ Radio Station with Chief Engineer Donald Weller standing.
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Gus E. Bloomquist

Date: 1916
Description: Gus E. Bloomquist operating early radio installation, possibly for WHA.
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Radio Broadcasting In The Gymnasium

Date: 1922
Description: Several men broadcasting via radio from the University of Wisconsin gymnasium during a basketball game.
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Ken Ohst

Date: 06 10 1959
Description: Ken Ohst stands at WHA-FM microphone with hands in pockets.
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Lenore Ulric Listening to the Radio

Date: 1922
Description: Broadway star Lenore Ulric, dressed and made-up for the stage, listens to an early portable radio receiver.
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Radio and Cat

Date: 1940
Description: Cat standing on top of a well-used radio.
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Camp Bowie

Date: 1918
Description: A view of uniformed men gathering around an Army field wireless station at Camp Bowie, built in 1917.
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Large Radio

Date: 1927
Description: Newspaperman Alvin Steinkopf leaning on a large radio in his Milwaukee apartment. Steinkopf is wearing a bow tie and holding a cigar in his hand.
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Neighborhood House Scrapbook: Gamma Delta Club

Date: 04 1939
Description: Gamma Delta Club members working on a card-making project and listening to the radio. The club was one of many sponsored by Neighborhood House.
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Wireless Radio Poles

Date: 1918
Description: A group of Russians erecting new wireless radio poles near a town. In the background across a field are a number of large buildings behind a wooden fence.
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Erecting a New Wireless Radio Pole

Date: 1918
Description: Russians erecting new wireless radio poles near a town. In the background are a number of large buildings behind a wooden fence. On the ground are barrels ...
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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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WHA 9XM Radio Broadcast Range

Date: 1923
Description: Blueprint U.S. map showing locations from which reports were received indicating reception of a basketball game broadcast by WHA radio out of Madison.
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First Radio Car in Wisconsin

Date: 1922
Description: First car equipped with a radio to operate in Wisconsin. This view of the front shows the aerial antenna which spans the hood and extends over the roof of ...

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