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| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Candid shot of Fred Coe, producer of "Playwrights '56," sitting at his production board. |
| Date: | 08 12 1958 |
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| Description: | Urbane gentleman shows off his sophisticated high fidelity wall system with reel-to-reel tape deck, reels of tape, and record albums. |
| Date: | 02 18 1959 |
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| Description: | Language teachers listening to foreign languages on tape decks at an institute for public school language teachers at Mount Mary College. |
| Date: | 03 29 1950 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Rexair Corporation employees, 2802 East Johnson Street, attending a sales meeting at the Wings Inn. They made vacuum cleaners. (Wurlitzer... |
| Date: | 06 15 1953 |
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| Description: | Leske's Steak House main dining room from the front door, 2827 Atwood Avenue, with jukebox. |
| Date: | 11 18 1955 |
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| Description: | Virginia Gibson (Mrs. Harley L.) and Jean M. Schilling (Mrs. William H.), members of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority alumnae group which sponsors the Nursery Sc... |
| Date: | 08 16 1952 |
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| Description: | Audrey Lewis, health education director at the YWCA, Carol Radichel, and Mrs. Merrell Vertein standing around a jukebox at a YWCA square dance. |
| Date: | 08 13 1952 |
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| Description: | Len Schmitt, former Progressive Party legislator from Merrill, led the Republican opposition to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's bid for re-election. Schmitt a... |
| Date: | 05 23 1950 |
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| Description: | Members of the Y-Teen group of the YWCA talk over summer camp plans with Patricia Powell, YWCA staff member who will be in charge of musical activities at ... |
| Date: | 07 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Ella Zilner plays a record of a dog barking for students at the Lapham School summer workshop for deaf children. Listening to the recording are Dianne... |
| Date: | 10 1957 |
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| Description: | Martin Luther King, Jr., during his appearance at the United Packinghouse Workers of American Wage-Policy Conference. With him are Russell Lasley (left), ... |
| Date: | 07 30 1951 |
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| Description: | Six children are sitting on a canvas with Mrs. Ralph Huitt while listening to a record at U.W. Houses Outdoor Nursery and Play School. Children include Cyn... |
| Date: | 09 10 1951 |
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| Description: | Frances Hurst (left) and Marcella Gill (right) listen to voice recordings at the WIBA radio broadcasting studio. Hurst was chairman of the WHA radio progra... |
| Date: | 03 26 1952 |
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| Description: | Dr. Marie Brittin, at left, demonstrates the electronic "train-ear" to Bernard Gill, center, and Kenneth Snee, right, fund chairman and executive secretary... |
| Date: | 06 10 1953 |
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| Description: | Dick Guerny, left, and Gordon Doefer, Nakoma School eighth grade graduating students, stand next to a jukebox during a dance at Nakoma Country Club. |
| Date: | 11 09 1953 |
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| Description: | Three children at the Morningside Sanatorium listen to a phonograph record being played on a record player purchased with money from the sale of Christmas ... |
| Date: | 02 08 1956 |
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| Description: | Bachelors James Fagan and Harry Kessenich, Jr. looking at one of many record albums. |
| Date: | 10 20 1958 |
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| Description: | JoAnn Hunold and Mike Reider present skits over a public address system at Edgewood High school to explain the aims of Catholic Youth Week. |
| Date: | 12 08 1958 |
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| Description: | Behind-the-scenes workers at WISC-TV make preliminary plans for the Empty Stocking Christmas show. Front row, left to right, Walter Harlu, technical direct... |
| Date: | 01 22 1959 |
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| Description: | Activities at the Teen-Canteen at the YWCA, 122 State Street, are sponsored by the Junior High Y-Teen clubs in Madison. Four girls enjoying some records in... |
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