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Melvina Capron and her Radio

Date: 08 02 1933
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 ...
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Helen Schleck

Date: 09 26 1932
Description: Helen Schleck (Mrs. Mathias H.), standing beside a radio, is a Dane County pioneer celebrating her 86th birthday, 1201 Sherman Avenue.
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Emerson School Classroom

Date: 10 01 1931
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...
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Ada Nye At Radio Set

Date: 1922
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.
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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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Coin Operated Hotel Radio

Date: 03 07 1947
Description: Coin operated hotel radio operated by a woman.
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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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Dobbe Family

Date: 12 1950
Description: "Jim & Hedy Dobbe Family. Front: Kathleen, Hedy, James Mark, & Karen. Back: James Walter & John."
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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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Edna Knueppel

Date: 12 27 1992
Description: "Having been born on Christmas Day in 1898, Edna Knueppel celebrated her 94th birthday recently. Although not as mobile as she used to be, Edna still has a...
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Two-way Speaker Connects School and Home

Date: 02 15 1961
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.
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Angela Lobo-Cobb at Work

Date: 1982
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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Women's Transit Authority

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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...
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Line of Media Personnel

Date: 03 29 2016
Description: A line of photographers, reporters, and other media personnel lining up in the back of the Janesville Conference Center waiting to enter the Donald Trump r...

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