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Wisconsin Telephone Company Employees

Date: 01 05 1954
Description: Katherine Quilliam (left), chief operator of unit No. 1 at the Madison office of the Wisconsin Telephone Company, interviews Mrs. Viola Cook for a position...
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Madison Free Library Bookmobile

Date: 02 09 1954
Description: Alice Volker, a city librarian, boarding the library's bookmobile to start the day's rounds. The bookmobile is an outfitted bus.
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Isabel La Follette and Deborah Sherman

Date: 02 18 1954
Description: Isabel La Follette (right) and probably Deborah Sherman, are discussing the Woman's Service Exchange, which Mrs. La Follette started at the Madison Vocatio...
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Madison Police Department Civilian Staff

Date: 04 19 1954
Description: Civilian employees in the Madison police department records center. Staff are sitting at their desks in an open office space with different filing cabinets...
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We Saw You . . . at Correspondents' Conference

Date: 05 11 1957
Description: Annual Wisconsin State Journal correspondents' conference held at the Nob Hill Supper Club. Shown are (left to right): John R. Prindle, assistant state edi...
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We Saw You . . . at Correspondents' Conference

Date: 05 11 1957
Description: Annual Wisconsin State Journal correspondents' conference held at the Nob Hill Supper Club. Shown attending the gathering are (left to right): Mrs. John Ge...
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New York Television Writer Gives Advice to Women

Date: 08 14 1957
Description: Mrs. Joyce Wickware, a former Madison resident, shares some advice to young women planning careers in the field of television. She has spent the past five ...
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Librarian Helen Farr Retires After 41-Year Service

Date: 08 13 1957
Description: Image is of Helen Farr, a Madison librarian who is retiring after forty-one years of service. For the past twenty-one years she has been the Chief Libraria...
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WSJ Recipe Contest

Date: 08 21 1957
Description: Looking through hundreds of entries received for the Wisconsin State Journal's cookbook recipe contest are Jo Ann Beier (left), WSJ women's editor, ...
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"Them Cards is Dead" Poster

Date: 09 27 1957
Description: Wisconsin State Journal staff reporter, June Dieckmann seated at a desk. Behind her on the wall is a poster saying "Them Cards is Dead." The poster ...
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Trying Out New Kodak Film

Date: 09 19 1957
Description: Portrait of a woman at her desk probably at the Wisconsin State Journal. Ed Stein was testing new Kodak Plus-X ASA320 film, when taking her picture.
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Trying Out New Kodak Film

Date: 09 19 1959
Description: Man and woman in an office, probably at the Wisconsin State Journal. Ed Stein was testing the new Kodak Tri-X film ASA 800 & 650, when taking their ...
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Salute to Newsboys

Date: 10 03 1957
Description: Newspaper delivery boy Sidney Bourne, 113 Lathrop Street, collecting money for the delivery subscription of the Wisconsin State Journal from custome...
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Salute to Newsboys

Date: 10 03 1957
Description: Brothers Malcolm, Mathew and Sidney Bourne, 113 Lathrop Street, line up to pay their bill for copies of the Wisconsin State Journal that they delive...
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Salute to Newsboys

Date: 10 03 1957
Description: Newspaper delivery boy Malcolm Bourne, 113 Lathrop Street, depositing his delivery earnings with Janet Simon at the Anchor Savings and Loan Company downtow...
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Eldred Garter and Secretary

Date: 12 07 1957
Description: Eldred Garter, Madison Newspapers employee, showing a secretary how to type using a dictaphone.
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Author Marie Versace and Daughter

Date: 12 13 1957
Description: At the typewriter is Marie Teresa Rios Versace, mother of five children. At her side, daughter Tracy is reading a book. Versace has published her first boo...
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Jo Ann Beier, Wisconsin State Journal Society Page Editor

Date: 01 07 1958
Description: Portrait of Jo Ann Beier, Society Page editor of the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Louise Marston, Wisconsin State Journal Society Page Writer

Date: 01 07 1958
Description: Portrait of Louise Marston, a writer for the Society Page of the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Lawrence Fitzpatrick, Managing Editor of the Wisconsin State Journal

Date: 01 06 1958
Description: Lawrence Fitzpatrick, Managing Editor of the Wisconsin State Journal, sitting at his new desk speaking with someone. A woman and two men are at desk...

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