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Office Work

Date: 1950
Description: Women office workers file and take phone calls in a busy shared work space.
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IH Teletype Room

Date: 1937
Description: Female employees inside the teletype room at International Harvester's general office.
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Dane County Court House Office

Date: 05 24 1944
Description: Dane County Court House office, 207 West Main Street, showing two women working at a Duplex Rectigraph machine.
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Auto License Bureau

Date: 05 17 1939
Description: Wisconsin Auto License Bureau Card Typing Department, located at 16-20 East Doty Street. Women government employees are sitting at desks, while a male supe...
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Dane County Title Company Office

Date: 01 20 1938
Description: Interior view of Dane County Title Company office, 109 S. Fairchild Street, with 11 people, some of them using typewriters. A water fountain (bubbler) is a...
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William J. Danielson at His Desk

Date: 01 12 1932
Description: William J. Danielson, manager of the Theronoid Company, sitting at his desk. The company was located in Room 707-708, State Bank of Wisconsin, 1 West Main ...
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Typing at Dickinson Secretarial School

Date: 01 15 1931
Description: Mrs. Florence J. Blumer, standing, giving individual instruction in typewriting on a Woodstock typewriter to Miss Letha Luchsinger, of Belleville, a studen...
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Mautz Paint & Glass Co. Office

Date: 04 24 1929
Description: Office staff at work in Mautz Paint & Glass Company office, 939 East Washington Avenue. There is a spiral staircase on the left leading up to the next floo...
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Bank of Wisconsin

Date: 01 11 1928
Description: Three men in the Bookkeeping Department, Bank of Wisconsin, located at 1 West Main Street.
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General Office at Manhattan Truck Branch

Date: 05 29 1937
Description: Elevated view of men sitting at desks near large windows in the general office of International Harvester's Manhattan truck branch. Additional men and wome...
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Manhattan Truck Branch Office

Date: 05 14 1937
Description: A.A. Allers (left), service station clerk, M.M. Timmons, service station clerk assistant, and F.E. Lee, service station foreman, work at desks in an office...
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Office at Saint Mary's Sanatorium

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Description: Interior view of an office at Saint Mary's Sanatorium, founded in 1880 by Bishop Salpointe. Near the window on the left is a desk, in the center is a typew...
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Happy Holidays From Chappell's Ad Dept.

Date: 1930
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...
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National Business Women's Week

Date: 10 06 1953
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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Milwaukee Women's Suffrage Office

Date: 06 1912
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...
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Woman at Desk with Carpeted Wall and Floor

Date: 1970
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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Men in Office

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Description: Man posing sitting and a man posing standing in a office behind a counter with a wire window for customers. Equipment in the office includes an adding mach...
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Bruce Barton

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Description: Bruce Barton, board chairman of Batton, Barton, Durstine & Osborn (advertising firm) in his office. Behind him is a large illustration of a street scene. T...

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