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| 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... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Professor Perry Holden (right) and an unidentified man sitting at a desk and looking over promotional materials from International Harvester's Agricultural... |
| Date: | 04 1923 |
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| Description: | A group of men and women sitting at desks while working in International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department office. The women in the foreground ... |
| Date: | 06 18 1953 |
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| Description: | Jean Welsch uses the telephone to recruit volunteers for the Polio Emergency Volunteer training course. At her side is her son Bobby, age 3 1/2 years, who ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card from Chappell's Ad Dept. The card has seven consecutive panels accordion folded. The front panel shows a bell hanging by a ribbon surrounded b... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Eight page holiday card. The inside four pages are shorter and narrower, jogged to the top. Four views are shown. On the front is a "Boss," sitting at his ... |
| Date: | 07 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Rebecca Chalmers Barton, Director of the Wisconsin Governor's Commission on Human Rights, seated at her desk. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Valentine's Day card with a old-fashioned telephone inside a frame made of a blue ribbon, decorated with hearts and flowers. A cherub is holding the receiv... |
| Date: | 08 28 1984 |
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| Description: | Mary Beaudry, a temporary employee at International Business Machines, works on word-processing and computer equipment. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Child's Valentine's Day card with a pink telephone on a large red heart. The text on the upper left reads "Nothing "Phoney" About This! Be My Valentine." T... |
| Date: | 09 14 1953 |
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| Description: | The W.H. Wikoff residence, 34C University Houses, contains many Japanese furnishings. Mrs. Catherine (William H.) Wikoff is shown with a Japanese dish and ... |
| Date: | 09 21 1953 |
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| Description: | The living room of the Albert Herrington home, located at 3724 Tonyawatha Trail. Mrs. Herrington is sitting on a sofa. |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | A chair is standing on a rug beside a built-in desk in the home of Adolph Betz. A telephone is sitting on an end table beside the desk. |
| Date: | 10 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Seated at her desk is Lorraine C. Jones, secretary to T.F. Wisniewski, a director at the State Board of Health. She is portraying a "modern" secretary as a... |
| Date: | 10 30 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Carl Stromberg, a Methodist minister newly appointed to First-University Methodist Church at 203 Wisconsin Avenue. His father, brother, and fou... |
| Date: | 12 15 1981 |
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| Description: | John A. Lavine of Chippewa Falls, head of the Lavine Newspaper Group and publisher of several Wisconsin newspapers. |
| Date: | 09 20 1922 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of the business district. Sidewalk view shows pedestrians and a vehicle in the street. Telephone poles and small horsehead shaped hit... |
| Date: | 08 18 1908 |
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| Description: | View of Main Street looking east. Trees and telephone poles line the street next to a large two-story building. A bridge and sidewalk are in the middle-gro... |
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