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| Date: | 10 27 1954 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 02 01 1957 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 07 25 1961 |
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| Description: | Naval reservists train at the Naval Reserve Training Center at Truax Field. A complete combat information center mockup is maintained at the training cente... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 03 23 1954 |
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| Description: | Alvin Benson playing records to broadcast over the radio at the VA Hospital. |
| 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... |
| 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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