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Madison's Royal Airport Office

Date: 05 05 1932
Description: The U.S. airmail radio operator at Royal Airport in Madison. During the 1920s Madison had two airports: the Madison Airport (aka the North Street Airport) ...
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Radio Lecture Set-Up with Glenn Morris

Date: 09 09 1941
Description: Set-up of radio equipment for a lecture. The man is probably Glenn Morris.
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Majestic Radio Sales Co. Booth

Date: 08 20 1930
Description: Salesman standing in front of Majestic Radio Sales Co., (122 E. Washington Avenue), with a booth at the Dane County Fair.
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Powerizer Sound Systems Truck

Date: 05 21 1930
Description: Three men standing beside Powerizer sound systems truck (Radio Laboratories, Inc. Milwaukee) in front of Orpheum Theatre, 216 State Street. "The Laff Riot ...
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Malcolm Hanson at WHA

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Description: Malcolm Hanson at the University of Wisconsin-Madison radio station in the Department of Physics. Hanson helped to develop the radio station and equipment.
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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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Maurice White and Farmer

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Description: Maurice White interviewing a farmer for radio broadcast.
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Election Night

Date: 11 1948
Description: Governor and Mrs. Oscar Rennebohm in the Governor's Residence, 130 E. Gilman Street, listening to the election returns on the radio. Some of the mansion's...
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Labor Union Party

Date: 02 08 1947
Description: Labor Union party sponsored by the YWCA Industrial Committee. Russell E. Dresser, Meat Cutter Union, Oscar Mayer, Bessie Backlund, Celon Company union, C.B...
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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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Governor Kohler and Austrian Chancellor Figl

Date: 05 21 1952
Description: Governor Walter Kohler, (left) chats with Chancellor Leopold Figl, Austrian Chancellor, during the latter's visit to Madison. Dr. Figl, on a 16-day visit t...
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Red Cross Surprise Alert

Date: 10 27 1954
Description: Ida Huff and William Aspinwall, Jr. answer a surprise alert phone call for a test of emergency services response while seated in an automobile.
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Car Slogan Contest Winners

Date: 02 01 1957
Description: Five adults and three children posing in front of a prize new 1957 Chevorlet. On the left is Warner Young, chairman of the Madison Automobile Dealers Assoc...
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Ham Operators Direct Disaster Exercise

Date: 10 01 1964
Description: The American Radio Relay League sponsors a communications and rescue drill based on a simulated flood near Verona. 30 workers and 35 mobile communications ...
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Fire Dispatchers Room

Date: 03 09 1965
Description: Dispatcher Sgt. L.E. Odegaard sitting at a switchboard surrounded by newly installed dispatching equipment. Odegaard is on the second floor of No. 3 statio...
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Alvin Benson, VA Hospital

Date: 03 23 1954
Description: Alvin Benson playing records to broadcast over the radio at the VA Hospital.
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Truax Field Control Tower

Date: 12 22 1953
Description: Edward C. Waffle, in charge of the tower for the Air Force, is talking with a pilot from the Truax Field control tower by speaking into a handheld radio tr...
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National Guard Flight Over Lake Michigan

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Description: Eight man sitting in a room looking at a map written on a chalkboard with symbols. One of the men is writing on the chalkboard. Caption reads: "Madison, Wi...

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