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| Date: | 09 16 1950 |
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| Description: | Caroline Genske, an office worker at Gisholt Machine Company, starts the process of check writing for the nearly one hundred percent participation of the c... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | One woman and two men working at desks in an office at Industrial Equipment Company, an International Harvester dealership. |
| Date: | 10 03 1951 |
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| Description: | Edith Kramer, of 325 West Main Street, sits at a desk in the office. She is the private secretary to Madison Mayor George Forster. |
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| Description: | A view of the Coining Room, where women sit at long tables, weighing out metal. Each woman has a balance and other tools at her station. A male supervisor ... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Beatrice Orvold, the manager of the Western Union office. Beatrice later married Leon Lamoreux, and they both taught at the U.S. Naval Training School (Rad... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Leon Lamoreux sits at his desk in the Western Union office at 21 West Main Street. (This building no longer exists.) He and his wife, Beatrice, later taugh... |
| Date: | 07 03 1952 |
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| Description: | Police officer Roy Holtzman giving Paul and Mark Hoover their new bicycle licenses. He is sitting at the first cash register to be used by the police depar... |
| Date: | 08 05 1952 |
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| Description: | The portrait shows "attractive, blue-eyed Mary Cassidy, one of the topnotch players in Madison's feminine softball league." She was employed as a bookkeepe... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 28 1984 |
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| Description: | Mary Beaudry, a temporary employee at International Business Machines, works on word-processing and computer equipment. |
| Date: | 10 06 1953 |
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| 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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| Description: | Journalist Cecil Brown reading communication being printed on a telex machine. |
| Date: | 06 1912 |
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| Description: | Two women seated at desks with typewriters in an office. A calendar on the wall indicates it is June 1912. Another poster advertises speakers in support of... |
| Date: | 02 07 1985 |
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| Description: | David R. Obey of Wisconsin, chair of the Joint Economic Committee. Opposite him, (in the foreground) is Secretary of Agriculture John R. Block, testifying ... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Migrant farm workers testify at the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (WERC) hearing after a strike in Bancroft. Seated on the left is Obreros Unid... |
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| Description: | Assemblyman David Obey and his wife Joan in his office in the Wisconsin Capitol. Joan Obey was an important factor in Obey's political success and when his... |
| Date: | 08 06 1957 |
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| Description: | Robert Simpson (right), wearing a soap box derby helmet, receiving a bank book with a $25 savings account as a prize for 'best sport' due to a cut hand and... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman working on a Goldwater campaign airplane. She is wearing a Goldwater hat, and a stuffed elephant is sitting on the desk with a Goldwater pin attach... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Two men speak across the service counter at Mt. Victory truck stop. Several posters and a map hang on the wall, and a cash register sits on the counter. |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| 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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