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Date: | 12 16 1953 |
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Description: | Postal worker, Eugene Hathaway, emptying a mail bag of letters onto a table for sorting crews at the United States Post Office on Monona Avenue. |
Date: | 10 1953 |
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Description: | United Givers' Business and Industrial Employees Division meet with section chairmen. Standing left to right: Lynn Terry, Stanley O. Nettum, and Robert Hol... |
Date: | 12 16 1953 |
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Description: | Postal workers, George Mader, Jr. (left) and Russell Anderson, are standing on the back of a truck and unloading a small part of a day's incoming (to Madis... |
Date: | 12 16 1953 |
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Description: | Postal worker, Ray Kindschi, is pushing a load of packages on a cart at the Williamson Street warehouse for the United States Post Office. He is usually a ... |
Date: | 10 15 1953 |
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Description: | University of Wisconsin artist-in-residence, Aaron Bohrod (right) chats with Madison architect William Kaeser (left) at the preview for the Madison Art Ass... |
Date: | 12 16 1953 |
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Description: | Postal worker, Paul McConnell, loading packages onto his mail truck for delivery. He is handling different sized boxes stacked on the lowered gate of his o... |
Date: | 01 05 1954 |
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Description: | Parakeet Mike posing on one blade of a pair of scissors belonging to barber Roy Brumley, who works at the Belmont Hotel barber shop. Brumley is holding the... |
Date: | 01 05 1954 |
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Description: | Barber Roy Brumley giving Dan Seligman a haircut while his two pet parakeets are perched on each of his shoulders, at the Belmont Hotel barbershop. Seligma... |
Date: | 01 05 1954 |
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Description: | Barber Roy Brumley's two pet parakeets are perching on his shoulders as he is cutting hair at the Belmont Hotel's barbershop. |
Date: | 01 05 1954 |
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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... |
Date: | 01 05 1954 |
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Description: | Operator Pat Stephenson (left) receives instruction from Mrs. Vivian Meicher, a supervisor at the Wisconsin Telephone Company, who is wearing a headset. Th... |
Date: | 01 05 1954 |
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Description: | Charles N. Goulet, Wisconsin Telephone Company manager, discusses operations with assistant manager, Vera Kloppmann. They sit at a broad desk that has a ro... |
Date: | 01 05 1954 |
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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 ... |
Date: | 01 05 1954 |
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Description: | Elevated view of the Wisconsin Telephone Company's main switchboard. Thirty five operators, all women, handle all toll calls. |
Date: | 01 12 1954 |
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Description: | Prom queen candidate Jean Riley of Green Bay (a.k.a. "Calamity Jean") appearing with two "bashful cowhands," who are singing on her behalf at the rally in ... |
Date: | 01 20 1954 |
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Description: | Harold Hansen (left) and Fred Manthe making chili for the firemen's dinner. Hansen is standing next to the stove stirring a deep pot with one hand, and is ... |
Date: | 01 20 1954 |
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Description: | Captain Arne Lewick doubles as the fire station mechanic. Smoking a pipe, he is working at a lathe. |
Date: | 01 20 1954 |
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Description: | Chatting about previous fire fighting experiences are (from left to right): Captain Arthur Wilcox, Firemen Russell Mani, and Wilbur Wright. They are sittin... |
Date: | 01 18 1954 |
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Description: | Close-up of carpenters Art Thorstad and George Clark working on the new Sears Roebuck store on East Washington Avenue. |
Date: | 01 18 1954 |
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Description: | Joe Starkey, Herman Crume, and Harley Buelow working on forms for the new Sears Roebuck store on East Washington Avenue. |
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