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| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Interior of WMAQ Radio Station with Chief Engineer Donald Weller standing. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Posed portrait of Wisconsin man John Cookson wearing a helmet and holding a radio headset to his ear. This was during the Spanish Civil War. |
| Date: | 05 05 1932 |
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| 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) ... |
| Date: | 11 17 1937 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Margaret (Mrs. Frank) Lewis sitting in a chair and Richard "Dickie" Lewis, a 3-year-old, standing beside the chair with floor model radio in th... |
| Date: | 08 02 1933 |
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| Description: | Melvina (Mrs. Samuel) Capron, 222 N. Bassett Street, listening to a radio and reenacting the night in 1923 when she heard that President Warren G. Harding ... |
| Date: | 09 26 1932 |
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| Description: | Helen Schleck (Mrs. Mathias H.), standing beside a radio, is a Dane County pioneer celebrating her 86th birthday, 1201 Sherman Avenue. |
| Date: | 07 01 1932 |
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| Description: | Radio installed at Henry Vilas Zoo (Vilas Park Zoo) for the granddaughters of the zoo director, Fred Winkelmann, and Tuck, the chimpanzee. |
| Date: | 10 01 1931 |
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| Description: | Emerson School children and teacher listen to a radio broadcast from a radio set up in front of the blackboard in the classroom at 2421 East Johnson Street... |
| Date: | 10 01 1931 |
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| Description: | Emerson School children standing by a radio on a table, listening to a broadcast of "The Hare and the Lion," 2421 East Johnson Street. |
| Date: | 11 04 1930 |
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| Description: | Robert La Follette standing next to a radio on election night at the La Follette home. |
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| Description: | A little girl stands at the built-in home entertainment system consisting of a phonograph turntable, radio, and single speaker. |
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| Description: | Radio operator Hilding Foreen at a desk broadcasting for WHRM. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Ada Nye (Nemshoff) listening to a crystal radio set at the home of her aunt and uncle Ben and Ida Tovrog. Her cousin Lou Tovrog built the radio set. |
| Date: | 11 05 1952 |
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| Description: | Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr. and Charlotte Kohler, listening to the radio, kept a close tabulation of state and national election returns Tuesday night a... |
| Date: | 11 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 10 28 1936 |
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| Description: | Interior of Reeds Cafe in Elsberry, Missouri. There is a man at the cafe reaching into a 6-can milk cooler. Also shown is the work space behind the counte... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Two men are speaking into a microphone labeled "WGL", while a man in the foreground on the left is wearing headphones and operating radio equipment. Men ar... |
| Date: | 05 21 1952 |
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| 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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| Description: | A boy scout sits at a table, wearing headphones, to send and receive radio messages. A kerosene lamp hangs behind him. |
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| Description: | A boy sits at a wooden desk to send radio calls at Camp Wallkill. Radio equipment is arranged on the desk and surrounding tables, a radio call book can be... |
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