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Charles McCarthy in his Office

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Description: Charles McCarthy writing at his desk in his office.
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Radiophone

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Description: A woman takes down menus and recipes that she hears on her radiophone.
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Dalton Trumbo

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Description: Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, seated at a typewriter.
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Naval Students in Classroom

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Description: Naval students sit together at long tables and write messages while listening to earphones at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). In the background a m...
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Man and Woman at Desk

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Description: A man is reading at a desk, while a woman writes on a pad of paper seated nearby in an office at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio).
Print

Diamond Ink Company Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Diamond Ink Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with product images of a bottle of writing fluid and a jar of alpha paste with an attached wat...
Document

H.C. Miller Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the H.C. Miller Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, manufacturing stationers, with images of five types of loose leaf business ledger bindings a...
Print

A. Whittemore & Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of A. Whittemore & Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, bookseller, stationer, and manufacturer of blank books of various types. In the center is a ...
Photograph

Frame 30: Man Learning to Read and Write

Date: 1964
Description: A man is seated at a desk, writing and smoking a cigarette.
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Frame 34: Woman Signing Up - Freedom Registration

Date: 1964
Description: A woman in the foreground writes on a pad while a young woman looks on from a doorway.
Photograph

Robert Doyle at His Typewriter

Date: 04 16 1945
Description: Robert Doyle (shirtles), works at the typewriter in his quarters in the BOQ (Bachelor Officer Quarters) #5, room 110, at CINCPAC (Commander in Chief, Pacif...
Photograph

Irna Phillips and Rose Cooperman

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Description: Irna Phillips, with her friend and secretary Rose Cooperman. Irna is holding papers and smoking a cigarette. Rose is sitting in the background writing.
Map or Atlas

Town of St. Lawrence, [Wis.]

Date: 11 1836
Description: This map is pen-and-ink on paper and is a plat of a paper city on the Wisconsin River, in what is now the Town of Dekorra. The map shows lot and block numb...
Photograph

Dorothy H. Wright

Date: 11 11 1920
Description: Portrait of Dorothy H. Wright sitting at a desk, holding a pen. On the back of the image she has written: "To A.W. Lawson from Dorothy H. Wright, Nov. 11 -...
Photograph

Alice E. Smith

Date: 04 01 1973
Description: A candid portrait of Alice E. Smith sitting behind a typewriter. She appears to be sitting on an outdoor patio, and is writing on a pad of paper.
Photograph

Adam Davis

Date: 06 28 1967
Description: View across desk towards a man talking on a telephone and writing in a notebook. Caption reads: "Adam Davis, who is an insurance salesman, represents the g...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

News Article About Censorship

Date: 09 20 1954
Description: A photocopied newspaper article by Faye Emerson titled "A Few More Lapses — Then Censorship." To the right of the article is a handwritten note to Sylveste...

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