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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A teenager sitting on a bed talking on the telephone. |
| Date: | 10 16 1945 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of five women workers in an Oscar Mayer Company test kitchen and laboratory. A low wall is separating two women working at desks on ... |
| Date: | 06 21 1944 |
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| Description: | WIBU Radio Station, 114 North Carroll Street, advertising office, showing two men sitting at desks. |
| 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: | 01 1942 |
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| Description: | Man and woman consider buying Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps from a clerk at a basement CUNA Credit Union National Association office. |
| 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: | 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. |
| Date: | 09 21 1928 |
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| Description: | Loraine Hotel lobby with local business directory next to registration desk, male customer at registration counter and two clerks in front of Western Union... |
| Date: | 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Wendell Willkie visits with Aaron Martin Brayton, retired editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, on his bed in a local hospital room during Willkie'... |
| Date: | 02 04 1947 |
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| Description: | Large office room with men and women working at desks at CUNA (Credit Union National Association), 1342 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Three women work in the Community War Chest office. One of the women is typing and one is about to use the telephone. A sign on the wall behind the women r... |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John Wise), Wisconsin's first woman Secretary of State, at her desk in the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 02 12 1945 |
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| Description: | Volunteer Mrs. F.F. (Louise) Bowman, Jr., sitting at the information desk at Dane County Red Cross Headquarters, 315 North Carroll Street, is assisting Tec... |
| Date: | 02 12 1945 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Kenneth (Rachel) Shiels, a Red Cross liaison agent who works with servicemen and their families, is shown with Mrs. Elvin (Edna) Olson, whose husband,... |
| Date: | 09 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Rose E. Amoth works at the new police telephone switchboard at the police station, 14 South Webster Street. |
| Date: | 09 06 1949 |
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| Description: | A Madison police officer at the new police telephone switchboard at the police station, 14 South Webster Street. |
| Date: | 09 30 1949 |
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| Description: | Maple Bluff fire chief Lawrence Nielsen places the first official dial call on Madison's new 100 percent dial phone service. |
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