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Office Baby

Date: 05 19 1965
Description: Mother brings baby to secretarial job.
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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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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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Ona Sanford

Date: 12 20 1944
Description: Secretary Ona Sanford in her office. Ona handles all of the correspondence for Wittwer and Webster, Inc., insurance agency.
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Groves-Barnhart Secretarial School

Date: 12 12 1945
Description: Group of five women in class at the Groves-Barnhart School for Secretaries, 502 State Street at Gilman Street. There is a large window in the background, s...
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General Office at Manhattan Truck Branch

Date: 05 29 1937
Description: Elevated view of men sitting at desks near large windows in the general office of International Harvester's Manhattan truck branch. Additional men and wome...
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Doris Turner, Secretary

Date: 10 03 1951
Description: Doris Turner of 929 East Johnson Street sits at a desk while typing. She is the private secretary for Thomas E. Coleman and Joseph A. Coleman, president an...
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 06 1953
Description: Ardis Kirkpatrick, a private secretary to Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Grover Broadfoot, is wearing the costume of an 1800's typist while using a Sholes...
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 06 1953
Description: Elizabeth Stemp (right), owner of the Stemp Typewriter Company, shows a typewriter to customer Mildred Subey, associated with the Herfurth Insurance Agenc...
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 06 1953
Description: Seated at her desk is Lorraine C. Jones, secretary to T.F. Wisniewski, a director at the State Board of Health. She is portraying a "modern" secretary as a...
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Jane Sulzer

Date: 01 12 1954
Description: Jane Sulzer is the seretary to George Watson, Wisconsin State Superintendent in the Department of Public Instruction, and to Russell Lewis, Assistant State...
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Evelyn Tranmel

Date: 01 12 1954
Description: Portrait of Evelyn Tranmel, secretary for Governor Walter J. Kohler.
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Women's Service Exchange

Date: 03 02 1954
Description: D.F. Farmer of Hyland-Hall Company is shown with Jennie Last (center) and Gertrude Berray (right), both of whom were hired by the firm through placement by...
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Women's Service Exchange

Date: 03 02 1954
Description: Portrait of Mary Stewart, a woman who recently applied for a job through the Women's Service Exchange and is now employed as a secretary to the director of...
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Job Interview Tips

Date: 04 10 1957
Description: Portrait of Jacqueline Miller, seated at a desk typing a job resume.
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Woman at Desk with Carpeted Wall and Floor

Date: 1970
Description: A woman wearing a red dress, brown shoes, and a beehive or bouffant hairstyle is sitting on a rolling chair with an adjustable back at a desk. She is comp...

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