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| Date: | 05 06 1932 |
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| Description: | Fanchon & Marco showgirls, dressed in coats and hats, sending telegrams. |
| Date: | 11 01 1931 |
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| Description: | Governor Philip F. La Follette presses a telegraph key at the Western Union Office to open an event in Green Bay. |
| Date: | 11 05 1930 |
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| Description: | Governor-elect Philip F. La Follette reading a telegram at the La Follette campaign headquarters. |
| Date: | 11 05 1930 |
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| Description: | Governor elect Philip La Follette sitting and reading a telegram at La Follette headquarters. |
| Date: | 11 05 1930 |
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| Description: | Governor elect Philip La Follette standing and reading a telegram at La Follette headquarters. |
| Date: | 09 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Miss Nellie Millane sits at the telegraph key at Western Union Telegraph Co. where she worked as a Morse Code operator for 49 years. |
| Date: | 09 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Arthur G. Tappen, manager of the Madison Office, 21 W. Main Street, of the Western Union Telegraph Company since 1915. The Wisconsin State J... |
| Date: | 12 07 1948 |
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| Description: | The new Western Union equipment in the Madison office which is connected with an 'electric brain' in Minneapolis, permitting faster transmission of message... |
| Date: | 12 07 1948 |
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| Description: | Geraldine Sommer, foreground, and Frances Zeier, two operators in the Madison office who have been trained to operate transmitting machines for the new spe... |
| Date: | 10 10 1951 |
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| Description: | Nels Rasmussen, employed at Madison Western Union for 42 years, receives a gold pin for his service from Manager A. G. Tappen. |
| 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: | 06 1942 |
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| Description: | 3rd engineer aboard the United Fruit Company's S.S. Santa Marta with a telegraph machine. The engineer is shirtless with a towel around his neck. He... |
| Date: | 01 10 1957 |
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| Description: | Nels O. Rasmussen is shown at left being presented with a pin in recognition of his 45 years of service with Western Union. He is operations supervisor of ... |
| Date: | 05 01 1912 |
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| Description: | A group of 16 men, some in suits, some in work clothes, posing with railroad cars from the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. |
| Date: | 07 12 1934 |
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| Description: | Telegram received July 13 reads: "WM Green, President of American Federation of Labor = A F OF L BLDG WASHDC = Answer of Kohler Company to latest demands o... |
| Date: | 07 28 1934 |
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| Description: | Telegram received July 28 reads: "WM Green = A F L BLD = Two dead, 39 shot in Kohler strike by four to five hundred deputies, troops coming, agreed to by u... |
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