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Filter: Creator Name of McVicar, Angus B., 1903-1964
| 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: | 02 06 1946 |
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| Description: | Mazomanie Village President Theodore R. King, seated at a roll top desk, dials the first telephone call to be handled through the Wisconsin Telephone Compa... |
| Date: | 02 06 1946 |
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| Description: | Charles T. Davies, Mazomanie representative of the Wisconsin Telephone Company, receives the first dial telephone call to be handled through the Wisconsin ... |
| Date: | 01 29 1945 |
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| Description: | With a backdrop of celebrity portrait photographs and stacks of coins on his desk, Hugh Flannery, manager of the Orpheum Theatre, is receiving a $100 War B... |
| Date: | 01 19 1944 |
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| Description: | A telephone operator wearing a headset sits in front of a switchboard at the Oscar Mayer Co. |
| Date: | 12 17 1942 |
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| Description: | View of a group of men and a woman. Some of the men are dressed in overalls and are using telephones in a bank of telephone booths at Truax Army Air Field.... |
| Date: | 12 17 1942 |
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| Description: | Men, some of whom are dressed in overalls, make phone calls in a bank of telephone booths at Truax Army Air Field in the recreation hall and switchboard ar... |
| Date: | 06 25 1937 |
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| Description: | Women switchboard operators, wearing headsets with microphones at the Wisconsin Telephone Company, located at 17 S. Fairchild Street. There are rotary dire... |
| Date: | 12 05 1935 |
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| Description: | Roy F. Bergengren, managing director of CUNA (Credit Union National Association), sitting behind his desk in his office at Raiffeisen House, 142 East Gilma... |
| Date: | 09 26 1935 |
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| Description: | Rev. Edwin O. Kennedy sitting at a desk writing a letter, Christ Presbyterian Church, 124 Wisconsin Avenue. There is a telephone on the desk, and books are... |
| Date: | 11 02 1933 |
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| Description: | Dane County Court House "telephone girls" at the new switchboard. Sitting at the switchboard is Madge Albright, and in the rear is Bernadine Plachy and Mar... |
| Date: | 08 02 1933 |
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| Description: | Samuel E. Capron, using a telephone while re-enacting the call he made to The Capital Times to announce Pres. Warren G. Harding's death in 1923. |
| Date: | 04 30 1933 |
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| Description: | Sinaiko Brothers Oil Co. filling station, at 702 Regent Street, showing wrecked safe damaged by thieves in robbery. |
| Date: | 04 18 1932 |
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| Description: | Dining room in the Joseph and Minnie Dean house, 636 E. Gorham Street. |
| Date: | 01 08 1932 |
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| Description: | Display of some of the 5,000 entries that came into the "Capital Times" office for the first "Cut Out Puzzle" contest of the "Boots" character from the "Bo... |
| Date: | 12 26 1931 |
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| Description: | Grace Putnam, executive secretary of the Madison Woman's Club, in the Woman's Building, 240 W. Gilman street. |
| Date: | 10 12 1931 |
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| Description: | Jesse Smith is on the job as desk sergeant at the Madison Police Department. |
| Date: | 03 18 1931 |
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| Description: | Norman Clapp, Appleton High School student, sitting in the governor's chair, represents Wisconsin in the around-the-world telephone conversation held in co... |
| Date: | 12 05 1930 |
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| Description: | Mr. Hagen sitting at master control in the WIBA control room. |
| Date: | 11 05 1930 |
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| Description: | Governor-elect Philip F. La Follette reading a telegram at the La Follette campaign headquarters. |
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