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| Date: | 10 26 1937 |
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| Description: | Parts technician on the telephone at his desk in the International Harvester dealership of H. Metz. The portrait was taken as part of store modernization p... |
| 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: | 05 03 1939 |
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| Description: | Governor Julius P. Heil sitting at his desk signing a bill, with four men looking on from behind. |
| Date: | 02 17 1938 |
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| Description: | Secretary using the telephone at the Groves School for Secretaries, with notepad, telephone and intercom. There is a classroom in the background, seen thro... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 06 08 1930 |
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| Description: | Patrolman Peterson in uniform, sitting at a telephone table. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of J. Robert Taylor at his desk talking on the phone. |
| Date: | 04 09 1935 |
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| Description: | J.H. De Fee, shop foreman, and W.R. Thomas, superintendent, sitting behind a desk at the City of Jacksonville Garage. |
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