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Altmeyer at Inter-American Conference on Social Security

Date: 1951
Description: Arthur Altmeyer speaking at the Inter-American Conference on Social Security, which took place in Buenes Aires. Eva Peron is seated to his left, wearing he...
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West High School Radio Club

Date: 10 31 1952
Description: Two members of the West High School radio club, Alan Frees and Bill Reeve, operating the club's "ham" station. Observing the young men are Henry Lugg, spo...
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Man Deplaning Airplane following Rose Bowl Trip

Date: 01 02 1953
Description: Football coach Ivy Williamson (?) is interviewed by a man with a radio transmitter on the steps of the airplane upon his return from the Rose Bowl game.
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Ham Radio Operator

Date: 08 19 1948
Description: Ross Hansch, 1608 Hoyt Street, Ham Radio Operator (W9RBI), Wisconsin's first member of the DX Century Club. The club is limited to amateur radio operators ...
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Madison Home Show

Date: 09 15 1950
Description: Three men standing at the microphone during a WIBA Radio broadcast from the Madison Home Show.
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Aerial View of Madison

Date: 04 17 1952
Description: Aerial view of Madison taken from near the site of the WIBA radio tower, looking east toward the isthmus. Other images in this set look to the northwest, s...
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Boy Scout Sending and Receiving Radio Messages

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Description: A boy scout sits at a table, wearing headphones, to send and receive radio messages. A kerosene lamp hangs behind him.
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Sending Radio Calls at Camp Wallkill

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Description: A boy sits at a wooden desk to send radio calls at Camp Wallkill. Radio equipment is arranged on the desk and surrounding tables, a radio call book can be...
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Visit to Clam Lake

Date: 12 15 1981
Description: Project ELF activist Jerry Holter (left) and John Lavine, head of the Lavine Newspaper Groups based in Chippewa Falls, outside the Clam Lake facilities of ...
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Touring Project ELF

Date: 12 15 1981
Description: Captain Charles Biele (right) and John A. Lavine (next to Biele), Wisconsin newspaper publisher, before Lavine toured the controversial U.S. Navy facility ...
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North Vietnamese Press Conference

Date: 08 22 1967
Description: Press conference held at the International Press Club in Hanoi to announce the destruction and loss of life in the American bombing of Hue Street in a resi...
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FLN Meeting

Date: 08 1957
Description: Algerian National Liberation Front members conducting a meeting in a tent. The men are sorting through papers and talking. There is a radio beside them.
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Commandos L Radio Testing

Date: 1963
Description: A member of the anti-Castro group Commandos L sitting on a bed testing a new radio transmitter-receiver.
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Commandos L Radio Testing

Date: 1963
Description: Member of the anti-Castro group Commandos L sitting on a bed testing a new radio transmitter-receiver.
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Air Support Operations Center, Vietnam

Date: 1962
Description: Soldier at work at a desk in an Air Support Operations Center, Da Nang, Vietnam. There is a large map on the wall, military radios, a clock and a military ...
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Wisconsin State Journal Workers

Date: 03 09 1961
Description: A worker at the Wisconsin State Journal building reading copy from a teletype machine.
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Transmitters In the Desert

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Description: Aerial view of two radio and television transmitters atop a butte in the Arco-Snake River desert.
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Telemation Audio-Visual Method Presented to University of Wisconsin

Date: 01 26 1961
Description: Telemation, a revolutionary audio-visual method of presenting instructional material was premiered at the University of Wisconsin education building audito...

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