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Muscular Dystrophy Telethon

Date: 09 15 1953
Description: Man and woman looking at a box of money in relation to a WKOW-TV Muscular Dystrophy telethon to raise money for a cure of the disease.
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Albert A. Hanson Trial

Date: 12 04 1953
Description: The Albert Hanson trial is serious business for jurors as they hear Attorney William J. Coyne (standing) defend Hanson.
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Merrillyn Wegner with her Puppets

Date: 12 10 1953
Description: Merrillyn (Mrs. Robert) Wegner is shown holding puppets and standing in front of a set from "Your Puppet Pals", a weekly show on WKOW-TV. She has a smiling...
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Albert A. Hanson Trial

Date: 12 05 1953
Description: Diane Nelson, 20-year-old bookkeeper, is shown reviewing with her attorney, Maurice B. Pasch, the testimony she gave as the chief prosecution witness again...
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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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Wisconsin Telephone Company Employees

Date: 01 05 1954
Description: Operator Pat Stephenson (left) receives instruction from Mrs. Vivian Meicher, a supervisor at the Wisconsin Telephone Company, who is wearing a headset. Th...
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Wisconsin Telephone Company Employees

Date: 01 05 1954
Description: A group of people working at desks. One of these operators responds when someone dials for information. Most of their work is to provide telephone numbers ...
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Wisconsin Telephone Company Employees

Date: 01 05 1954
Description: Elevated view of the Wisconsin Telephone Company's main switchboard. Thirty five operators, all women, handle all toll calls.
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Madison Vocational School Cooking School

Date: 01 25 1954
Description: Instructor E.L. Heiser looking on as students Jean Burik, Bob Knoelke, and Delwin Henriksen are preparing a salad in the cooking school at Madison Vocation...
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Cuba City Hospital and Clinic

Date: 02 02 1954
Description: Nurse Marie Holt adjusting the new X-ray machine over a patient lying on the table, while Selma Haase, in the right foreground, is waiting to take a pictur...
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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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Ed & Donna Stein

Date: 02 19 1954
Description: Photographer Ed Stein and his wife, Donna, in formal dress before attending the University of Wisconsin prom at the Memorial Union. He is in a tuxedo and s...
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Public Service Commission Meeting

Date: 03 16 1954
Description: Public Service Commission members are sitting around a long table before papers, taking up a proposal for a rate increase for the Madison Bus Company. A fe...
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Milwaukee Braves Branch Ticket Office

Date: 03 01 1954
Description: Mrs. Paul Hilgers of Middleton selling tickets for Milwaukee Braves baseball games at the branch ticket office in the basement of The Hub clothing store in...
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Milwaukee Braves Branch Ticket Office

Date: 03 01 1954
Description: View looking down at a line of men and women waiting to buy tickets to Milwaukee Braves baseball games at the branch ticket office located in the basement ...
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Milwaukee Braves Branch Ticket Office

Date: 03 01 1954
Description: View down the line of people waiting to buy tickets for Milwaukee Braves baseball games at The Hub clothing store in downtown Madison, where the branch tic...
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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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Stella Revell

Date: 03 11 1954
Description: Stella Revell, wife of Aldric Revell who was a political reporter for The Capital Times in 1954. She was the bulletin editor for the U.W. Publicatio...
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American Optical Company

Date: 03 15 1954
Description: Slightly elevated view of three women in the order department at the American Optical Company, located on 429 State Street. Two women are standing at a cou...
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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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