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| Description: | The World's First Typist, Lillian Sholes, daughter of Christopher Sholes, who invented the first successful typewriter. It was during Mr. Sholes' residence... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Kleinstueber's Machine Shop, where Christopher Latham Sholes perfected his typewriter. The sign on the top of the building reads: "Brass F... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Lillian Sholes, demonstrating a prototype typewriter invented by her father, Christopher Latham Sholes. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Stenographers at the law firm of Winkler, Flanders, Smith, Bottum, & Vilas. |
| Date: | 05 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Dane County Court House office, 207 West Main Street, showing two women working at a Duplex Rectigraph machine. |
| Date: | 05 17 1939 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 15 1931 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Florence J. Blumer, standing, giving individual instruction in typewriting on a Woodstock typewriter to Miss Letha Luchsinger, of Belleville, a studen... |
| Date: | 04 24 1929 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Miss Nellie Millane sits at the telegraph key at Western Union Telegraph Co. where she worked as a Morse Code operator for 49 years. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 07 1948 |
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| Description: | Geraldine Sommer, foreground, and Frances Zeier, two operators in the Madison office who have been trained to operate transmitting machines for the new spe... |
| Date: | 01 28 1949 |
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| Description: | Louise Marston, Society Editor, with Dorothy French and Barbara Muckler, assistant editors. |
| Date: | 07 07 1950 |
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| Description: | Madison Soap Box Derby racer John Bock of 19 Paget Road, right, is shown prizes to be awarded to the top racers by Jean Behling, staff writer for the "Wisc... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Journalist Robert S. Allen, center, in military uniform, poses with the staff of the "Wisconsin State Journal". A graduate of the Wisconsin Journalism Scho... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | A large group of photographers, filmmakers, and other individuals gathers for a portrait in International Harvester's Hickory Hill Farm photo studio. |
| Date: | 04 1923 |
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| Description: | A group of men and women sitting at desks while working in International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department office. The women in the foreground ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Holiday card from Chappell's Ad Dept. The card has seven consecutive panels accordion folded. The front panel shows a bell hanging by a ribbon surrounded b... |
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