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| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Family in their living room. The mother watches television, the father reads a newspaper, the daughter reads a book, and two sons play with a train set. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Candid shot of Fred Coe, producer of "Playwrights '56," sitting at his production board. |
| Date: | 06 01 1956 |
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| Description: | A man standing in a television retail store. A number of television sets are displayed, including one Hallicrafters set. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the appearance of television and motion picture "cowboy" stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans at the Wisconsin State Fair. |
| Date: | 05 31 1960 |
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| Description: | Rosa Parks being interviewed by Mrs. Anne Braden, editor of the "Southern Patriot," at Braden's home. |
| Date: | 05 1971 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising for the television special "11:59, Last Minute to Choose," on Madison's WISC-TV Channel 3. Sign reads, "...For the first time on televis... |
| Date: | 11 28 1987 |
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| Description: | Robert Novak (right) and Richard Lesher of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on the set of the chamber's news program, It's Your Business. |
| Date: | 12 17 1986 |
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| Description: | Panel discussion on 'It's Your Business," a program sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The panelists are: (left to right) Richard Lesher of the ch... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | People mill about the WKOW television studio. A television camera and boom microphone are visible to the right, and there is a clock in the background surr... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | The operators of the mobile unit of WMVS-TV, a community station out of Milwaukee Vocational and Adult Schools, film an interview with Roy Rogers and Dale ... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin checking on House floor activity on television. A table set with place settings appears behind him. |
| Date: | 04 1991 |
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| Description: | Man watching a program on a large television. In front of him is a TV tray. There is a VCR on top of the television. Although unidentified it is likely tha... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A television set displays an image of Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights activist and political figure, speaking into microphones. |
| Date: | 08 1964 |
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| Description: | A television set displays an image of a man seated at a desk covered in papers and microphones, likely at the 1964 Democratic National Convention where the... |
| Date: | 03 25 1959 |
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| Description: | Doris Platt at the WHA-TV station displaying artifacts during the broadcast of Scandinavian Backbone, part of her series of 1959 television shows. E... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Four panels of a sketched storyboard for the Eisenhower TV spot campaign. The first panel contains the slogan, "Eisenhower Answers America!" |
| Date: | 05 1962 |
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| Description: | Newton Minow joins Eleanor Roosevelt and others on her television show "Prospects of Mankind." From left to right are: John F. White, president of the Nati... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Vel Phillips sitting in an armchair, wearing a tan top with a light blue skirt. Dale is kneeling next to her, wearing eyeglasses. A television is in the co... |
| Date: | 09 20 1954 |
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| Description: | A photocopied newspaper article by Faye Emerson titled "A Few More Lapses — Then Censorship." To the right of the article is a handwritten note to Sylveste... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Lewis Arms pouring himself a drink at his birthday party. |
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