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Getting Out the School Paper

Date: 1935
Description: African American students work on a school paper as part of the Farm Security Administration sharecropper resettlement project.
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Quick Set

Date: 04 26 1954
Description: Intern holds letter set and watches Linotype operator at "Mid-County Times" newspaper room.
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Journalist Bertha Rupp at her Desk

Date: 09 12 1952
Description: Bertha Elbel Rupp, assistant society editor, seated behind her desk at the "Wisconsin State Journal."
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Students Publishing High School Newspaper

Date: 10 24 1955
Description: Central High School students, Nancee Meyers, Jean Loy, and Colenthia Hill working on an edition of the school newspaper, "Madison Mirror."
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Editor Marshall F. Browne

Date: 08 04 1944
Description: Marshall F. Browne at his typewriter. He was editor and publisher of the "East Side News" and several other publications.
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Wisconsin State Journal Former Employee

Date: 02 25 1948
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...
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"Highlander Flash" Newspaper

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Description: CIO school in the 1940s. Features two women reviewing the "Highlander Flash," a newsletter produced by the Highlander Folk School.
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Roy Matson and Rex Karney, Wisconsin State Journal Staff

Date: 06 17 1948
Description: Roy Matson, Editor, and Rex Karney, political writer, both of the Wisconsin State Journal, pictured in Matson's office prior to their leaving to att...
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Anne and Carl Braden in Newsroom

Date: 09 1948
Description: Newsroom of the Louisville Times, where Anne (typing, at the right), and Carl Braden (left), worked as journalists.
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"Wisconsin State Journal" Staff Member

Date: 01 28 1949
Description: Portrait of Helen Matheson, "Wisconsin State Journal" Sunday editor.
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"Wisconsin State Journal" Staff

Date: 01 28 1949
Description: Elevated view of part of the City Room with staff, "Wisconsin State Journal".
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"Wisconsin State Journal" Staff Members

Date: 01 28 1949
Description: Louise Marston, Society Editor, with Dorothy French and Barbara Muckler, assistant editors.
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"Wisconsin State Journal" Staff

Date: 01 28 1949
Description: The Advertising Department of the "Wisconsin State Journal" has artists, copy writers, and technical experts to "help you shop."
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Madison Soap Box Derby Prizes

Date: 07 07 1950
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...
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Teen Summer Jobs

Date: 08 09 1950
Description: Jack Harned, 1950 West High School graduate, uses a telephone and typewriter at his summer job as a reporter at the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Library after Remodeling

Date: 11 1955
Description: Elevated view from the balcony of the north end of the Wisconsin Historical Society's library reading room showing the recent remodeling. The remodeling di...
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Radical Editor

Date: 10 23 1978
Description: Jack A. Smith, managing editor of the "Guardian," a weekly radical newspaper. Smith's admiration for Chinese communism is suggested by the decorations on h...
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Bob Allen in Wisconsin National Guard Uniform

Date: 1922
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...
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Happy Holidays From Chappell's Ad Dept.

Date: 1930
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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Daily Press Reporter

Date: 1938
Description: Male reporter reading pages at a typewriter at the Ashland Daily Press.

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