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| Date: | 04 1939 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 04 20 1960 |
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| Description: | Madison ham radio hobbyist Philip Goetz, age 17, poses with his DX Century Club award from the American Radio Relay League, Inc., for conducting two-way co... |
| Date: | 02 15 1961 |
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| Description: | An East High School English class is shown with the addition of a two-way speaker box connecting homebound student Jerry Novick to his class. |
| Date: | 02 25 1961 |
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| Description: | Four Explorer Scouts test a "walkie talkie" and sign in for "emergency duty" in a search test. Left to right: Larry Peterson, Sterling Miller, Dick Sulliva... |
| Date: | 10 01 1964 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 03 09 1965 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Angela Lobo-Cobb is sitting sideways in a chair in front of a desk at a window. She is looking down at papers in her hands. On the desk is a typewriter. Tw... |
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| Description: | A driver sitting in the driver's seat is talking on the car radio while awaiting passengers for the Women's Transit Authority. The WTA was a sexual assault... |
| Date: | 03 23 1954 |
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| Description: | Alvin Benson playing records to broadcast over the radio at the VA Hospital. |
| Date: | 10 20 2014 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a bathroom. Light bulbs illuminate the top of a long mirror above the sink. On the counter is a portable radio. The walls are covered in w... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 12 22 1953 |
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| 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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| Description: | The original transmitting equipment for WHA, the oldest radio station in the nation. The telephone pictured served as a microphone. The station was in the ... |
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| Description: | A radio transmitter tuner and vacuum tube. The tube was built by Cyril Moreau Jansky and the transmitter was most likely built by him as well. |
| Date: | 06 04 1957 |
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| Description: | A steel worker from Milwaukee attaches a rope to be used to pull an antenna into place on a tower on top of the new City-County Building. The antenna is fo... |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the steering wheel, dash, and foot pedals of Bob Bender's deluxe limousine cab named "Nellie," a black 1956 Cadillac Fleetwood. Flat rate ... |
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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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