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| Date: | 09 21 1928 |
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| Description: | Hotel Loraine lobby registration desk, with three male employees, local business directory, typewriter and Western Union sign. |
| Date: | 01 11 1928 |
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| Description: | Three men in the Bookkeeping Department, Bank of Wisconsin, located at 1 West Main Street. |
| Date: | 06 1919 |
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| Description: | A large group of men and women are sitting at typewriters in a gymnasium to take the state civil service exam. |
| Date: | 04 26 1954 |
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| Description: | Intern holds letter set and watches Linotype operator at "Mid-County Times" newspaper room. |
| Date: | 1933 |
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| Description: | Men looking for a job during the Great Depression waiting their turn in the Employment Office waiting room, while another man is sitting with a clerk and f... |
| Date: | 02 04 1947 |
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| 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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| Description: | A portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes, the inventor of the typewriter. Sholes was an editor in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and later continued this work in Milwa... |
| Date: | 01 17 1955 |
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| Description: | Richard Jefferson completing his PhD thesis on a rented typewriter in the Memorial Library, University of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 12 18 1956 |
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| Description: | Robert Jensen typing while sitting in a wheelchair. He was paralyzed by spinal polio after serving in the United States Army in Korea. |
| Date: | 08 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Marshall F. Browne at his typewriter. He was editor and publisher of the "East Side News" and several other publications. |
| Date: | 08 11 1944 |
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| Description: | O.C. Harris talking on the telephone in the office of his business, which is the O.C. Harris Company, 1217 East Broadway, Dane County's only twenty-four ho... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Center panel of the completed mural at the Wisconsin Historical Society. The image depicts wheat farming, one of the state's earliest and largest industrie... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A man, possibly John Forbes, working at a roll-top desk in his office over the old Fire Hall. A dog is sitting on a chair in the lower left. Books on the s... |
| Date: | 07 25 1945 |
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| Description: | Lieut. Albert L. David showing his wife, Georgia, the souvenirs he brought from the capture of the German U-505 underseas craft. He stood two days and nigh... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Author August Derleth surrounded by books at his desk. |
| Date: | 06 10 1924 |
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| Description: | P.M. Phillips, manager of the Office Farmers Exchange, sits behind a desk, with a woman typing on one side and a seated man on the other. A McCormick-Deeri... |
| Date: | 02 25 1948 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Joseph (Betty Pruett) Farrington, former police reporter, recalls work days with Russell B. Pyre, current reporter. She was a police reporter from 191... |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Myles Horton sitting, shirtless, typing on a typewriter on his lap while sitting outdoors. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Sinclair Lewis seated at a typewriter with a cigarette in a holder in his mouth. |
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