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| Description: | President Harry Truman meets a packed room full of reporters. Merriman Smith, the "dean of the White House correspondents and the donor of this image," can... |
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| Description: | Merriman Smith of UPI, the "dean of the White House correspondents," with President Lyndon Johnson, in the White House. Smith enjoyed a close relationship ... |
| Date: | 01 23 1952 |
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| Description: | Kathrine M. Johnson, 820 Jenifer Street, maps out a small portion of the central section of the city for which she is responsible during the March of Dimes... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An interior view of a diner, showing two semi-circular counters with stools and booths along the walls. There is a jukebox on the right and a root beer bar... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Interior of the lobby at Saint Mary's Hospital, completed May 18, 1859 and designed by Anthony Bley. The view includes a statue of Mary and Jesus surrounde... |
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| Description: | A male patient sits in bed on the porch and receives a meal from a nurse at Saint Mary's Sanatorium, founded in 1880 by Bishop Salpointe. A telephone sits ... |
| Date: | 06 13 1952 |
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| Description: | Dane County marriage license clerk Mercedes Dufour, (left), issues a license to Lucille A. Roth and Amos M. Skogen for their leap year wedding at the East ... |
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| Description: | A view of the Office of the Directress at St. Xavier's Academy. A roll top desk sits by the window and a small table holding a typewriter stands to the rig... |
| Date: | 07 16 1916 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Harold Fowler McCormick's room in Zurich, Switzerland. A chandelier hangs from the ceiling and the room is decorated with striped wallpape... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Leon Lamoreux sits at his desk in the Western Union office at 21 West Main Street. (This building no longer exists.) He and his wife, Beatrice, later taugh... |
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| Description: | A man is reading at a desk, while a woman writes on a pad of paper seated nearby in an office at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). |
| Date: | 07 14 1952 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a private furnished room in the new addition to Madison General Hospital. 196 beds are being added to the hospital's capacity. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Marie McCaddin, New York branch telephone operator." Overhead view of woman sitting at a switchboard. |
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| Description: | The cast of the television show "Happy Days" pose in a telephone booth. From top to bottom are Ron Howard, Donny Most, Anson Williams, and Henry Winkler. |
| Date: | 2010 |
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| Description: | Teenage girl using cellphone while sitting on a bench outdoors. |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | J.A. "Doc" Hines, veterinarian and politician, on the phone at his office. Wording on cup reads: "Old Fart." |
| Date: | 04 2010 |
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| Description: | A woman is on her cellphone in the foreground, while two women run up the escalator in the background. |
| Date: | 08 12 1952 |
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| Description: | Volunteer telephone workers take questions phoned in for Leonard F. Schmitt, Merrill attorney, who is challenging U.S. Senator Joseph B. McCarthy for the R... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Four beds line either side of the sleeping porch at the farmhouse of J.E. Joyce. A telephone is hanging on the wall and striped curtains are covering the o... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A woman is holding a metal case as a man is standing and leaning against a desk in what appears to be a medical office or infirmary. The office is most lik... |
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