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Linguistic Exhibit

Date: 09 27 1934
Description: University of Wisconsin Professor Miles L. Hanley watching coeds Laura Severson and Theressa Fein, while they are working on transcriptions for a linguisti...
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McCoy's Ice Cream Parlor

Date: 06 02 1937
Description: McCoy's Ice Cream Parlor, 507 State Street, showing booths and jukebox.
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Emerson School Hearing Test

Date: 02 11 1935
Description: Boys at Emerson School are listening intently to earphones and writing on notebooks during a hearing test.
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Badger Theater Group

Date: 01 20 1934
Description: Group portrait of three women and two men who are in the Badger theater group in Mt. Horeb participating in the Dane County rural drama tournament. Left to...
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Madison Radio Shop Sound Car

Date: 04 03 1933
Description: "Sound car" with loud speakers on the front hood, and a large sign on top that reads: "Norge, Madison Radio & Refrigerator Co., Borgrud Hardware Co., Ander...
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Lapham School Radio Room

Date: 04 29 1931
Description: Ben Park, sitting in a chair, is talking to all the classrooms in Lapham school through the radio microphone in the office of Shirley D. Almy, principal. T...
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Group Portrait of Ernest Kalar Family

Date: 05 03 1931
Description: Group portrait of Ernest Kalar, his wife, and three children. There is a Victrola phonograph on a table in the background on the left.
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Mr. and Mrs. Holt

Date: 12 20 1930
Description: Informal portrait of Jerome C. and May Holt sitting in rockers in their living room at 1922 Madison Street.
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Esquire Club Dining Room

Date: 12 17 1946
Description: Interior view of the Esquire Club dining room including a soda fountain counter with a countertop jukebox. There is a piano in the background. 2615 Sherman...
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Rexair Corporation Employees

Date: 03 29 1950
Description: Group portrait of Rexair Corporation employees, 2802 East Johnson Street, attending a sales meeting at the Wings Inn. They made vacuum cleaners. (Wurlitzer...

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