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| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Harry S. Truman in the oval office standing behind his desk. |
| Date: | 01 29 1945 |
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| Description: | With a backdrop of celebrity portrait photographs and stacks of coins on his desk, Hugh Flannery, manager of the Orpheum Theatre, is receiving a $100 War B... |
| Date: | 08 1955 |
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| Description: | Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John Wise), Wisconsin's first woman Secretary of State, at her desk in the Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 06 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Romance Koopman and her son, Bobby Koopman. She did freelance writing and radio scripts, and was a winner of five national awards for writing. Her mother w... |
| Date: | 11 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Harry G. Marsh, passenger agent for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, seated at his desk. Mr. Marsh was responsible for troop movements to and from Trua... |
| Date: | 09 11 1947 |
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| Description: | Carl W. Regenberg, 1947 Community Chest chairman and salesman for Mautz Paint Company. |
| Date: | 12 27 1947 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a young man assumed to be an employee of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, taken inside the Wisconsin state capitol building. |
| Date: | 01 09 1948 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Julius Kelly, newly elected County Treasurer by the Dane County Board. |
| Date: | 07 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Methodist bishop, H. Clifford Northcott, seated at a desk. |
| Date: | 06 18 1935 |
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| Description: | Springfield Works storekeeper H.H. Stephenson sits at a desk in his factory office. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Miss Olive White of the Home Economics Department at International Harvester's Evansville Works. She is sitting at a desk, with a phone to her left ear. A ... |
| Date: | 10 04 1949 |
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| Description: | The Madison Business and Professional Women's club celebrates National Business Women's Week by honoring some of its members. Pictured is Mrs. Florence H. ... |
| Date: | 06 14 1950 |
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| Description: | Hildur Hanson, receptionist in the "Wisconsin State Journal" editorial rooms, looks over the 25-piece tool kit which will be awarded for the best construct... |
| Date: | 08 09 1950 |
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| Description: | Charlene Schaefer, East High School 1950 graduate, is shown operating the telephone switch board at Lake View Sanatorium. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Mr. E.H. Sohner, General Superintendent of International Harvester's Bettendorf Works, wears a three-piece suit and sits in an office chair to pose for a p... |
| 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: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Marie McCaddin, New York branch telephone operator." Overhead view of woman sitting at a switchboard. |
| Date: | 07 08 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Rebecca Chalmers Barton, Director of the Wisconsin Governor's Commission on Human Rights, seated at her desk. |
| Date: | 10 06 1953 |
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| 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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