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| 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: | 08 12 1913 |
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| Description: | Two men working a desks in the Pawling & Harnischfeger accounting office. There are photographs on the wall, including a crane, the P&H plant, and a St. Lo... |
| Date: | 08 15 1913 |
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| Description: | Men at desks in the Pawling & Harnischfeger advertising department. Large windows on left look out towards another building, and men on equipment can be se... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 09 30 1949 |
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| Description: | Shorewood Hills fire chief Chris Bertelsen receives the first official dial call on Madison's new 100 percent dial phone service. The sign on the wall abov... |
| Date: | 10 04 1949 |
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| Description: | The Madison Business and Professional Women's club celebrates National Business Women's Week by honoring some of its members. Pictured is Mrs. Florence H. ... |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Journalists Robert Novak and Rowland Evans in their office. |
| Date: | 11 18 1949 |
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| Description: | Marjorie White of 25 East Dayton Street wearing a fur coat and head scarf while using what is alleged to be the first 24-hour, outdoor-accessible pay phone... |
| Date: | 11 23 1949 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin recreation student Mary Ann Busch, Eagle River, receives a call for a student to lead games at a little girl's club. Glenn Gritzmac... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Workers for the American Transportation Company in a highway dispatcher's office. |
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| Description: | Harold Gauer is sitting at a desk wearing a pinstriped suit. His left foot is bare and "typing" at a typewriter, while he reads a note and talks on the tel... |
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| Description: | An office or study, most likely belonging to Harold Gauer, with three framed pictures hanging over a desk, of Robert Bloch, one-time Milwaukee mayoral cand... |
| Date: | 06 14 1950 |
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| Description: | Hildur Hanson, receptionist in the "Wisconsin State Journal" editorial rooms, looks over the 25-piece tool kit which will be awarded for the best construct... |
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| Description: | A record photograph of Polland when Gauer was working for him during the war. |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the total team working on the election campaign of Carl Zeidler. Max's nickname was "Max the Axe." Milt Polland always wanted to be photo... |
| Date: | 05 25 1937 |
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| Description: | Reception room and general offices on the second floor of International Harvester's New York Manhattan truck branch. Large photographs of men at work in In... |
| Date: | 07 12 1950 |
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| Description: | Organizers of the 1950 Madison Soap Box Derby gather around a table while examining papers. Pictured left to right, front row, are: Glenn "Pat" Holmes, Joh... |
| Date: | 05 29 1937 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men sitting at desks near large windows in the general office of International Harvester's Manhattan truck branch. Additional men and wome... |
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