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Auto License Bureau

Date: 05 17 1939
Description: Wisconsin Auto License Bureau, 16-20 E. Doty Street, Card Typing Department, with women at typewriters and male supervisor.
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Auto License Bureau

Date: 05 17 1939
Description: Wisconsin Auto License Bureau Card Typing Department, located at 16-20 East Doty Street. Women government employees are sitting at desks, while a male supe...
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Remodeled C.U.N.A. Office

Date: 04 05 1938
Description: Remodeled C.U.N.A. (Credit Union National Association) office, Raiffeisen House 142 Gilman Street, after fire, taken from near the door, showing seven peop...
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Dane County Title Company Office

Date: 01 20 1938
Description: Interior view of Dane County Title Company office, 109 S. Fairchild Street, with 11 people, some of them using typewriters. A water fountain (bubbler) is a...
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Woman at Typewriter

Date: 04 05 1937
Description: A man watching as a woman demonstrates typing on an L.C. Smith typewriter at Jones Typewriter Co., 506 State Street.
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CUNA Credit Union Office

Date: 12 05 1935
Description: Three female employees in the CUNA (Credit Union National Association) general office. 142 E. Gilman Street.
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Beatrice Lampert

Date: 03 13 1931
Description: Beatrice Lampert, assistant city attorney, sitting at her desk with telephone and typewriter.
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Typing at Dickinson Secretarial School

Date: 01 15 1931
Description: Mrs. Florence J. Blumer, standing, giving individual instruction in typewriting on a Woodstock typewriter to Miss Letha Luchsinger, of Belleville, a studen...
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Mautz Paint & Glass Co. Office

Date: 04 24 1929
Description: Office staff at work in Mautz Paint & Glass Company office, 939 East Washington Avenue. There is a spiral staircase on the left leading up to the next floo...
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Central High School Tychoberahn Business Office

Date: 04 16 1929
Description: Central High School Tychoberahn business office with students working at tables.
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Vecto Store Interior

Date: 06 28 1928
Description: Interior of Vecto Store, located at 422 West Gilman Street. Included in the view are American Radiator Company furnaces, hot water heaters, and a woman sit...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Office of SHSW Librarian

Date: 1892
Description: Minnie Oakley, assistant librarian of the Wisconsin Historical Society, seated at her desk in the South Wing of the Wisconsin State Capitol. This photogra...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Office of Historical Society Librarian

Date: 1892
Description: Emma Hawley, a Historical Society librarian, at her desk in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. After the Society purchased its first type...
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Working the Linotype

Date: 1950
Description: A woman types text into a linotype machine.
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World War II Bond Sale

Date: 12 16 1944
Description: Three women buying war bonds at Manchester's Department Store while two clerks ring up the sale. The three women are all wearing fur coats, as it is a spec...
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CUNA Office

Date: 02 04 1947
Description: Man and woman reviewing a document in an office, with three women working in the background at CUNA (Credit Union National Association).
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CUNA Bridge Magazine, Office

Date: 06 04 1947
Description: Credit Union National Association Bridge magazine, 1342 East Washington Avenue. There are seven women typing and working in the office.
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Legal Secretary Jennie Nelson

Date: 1898
Description: Secretary Jennie Nelson seated at her desk in the offices of the La Follette, Harper, Roe, & Zimmerman law partnership. After Robert M. La Follette, Sr., w...
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Receptionist at Rennebohm Home Office

Date: 1979
Description: A receptionist is seated at her desk in the Rennebohm home office, 2300 Badger Lane.
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Community War Chest Office

Date: 1945
Description: Three women work in the Community War Chest office. One of the women is typing and one is about to use the telephone. A sign on the wall behind the women r...

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