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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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Rev. Edwin O. Kennedy

Date: 09 26 1935
Description: Rev. Edwin O. Kennedy sitting at a desk writing a letter, Christ Presbyterian Church, 124 Wisconsin Avenue. There is a telephone on the desk, and books are...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Thwaites' Office

Date: 1897
Description: Reuben Gold Thwaites, secretary of the State Historical Society, at his desk in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. Thwaites succeeded Lym...
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Writing a Note

Date: 1950
Description: A woman writes a note at a small writing desk in her kitchen.
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Ansel Adams at Point Lobos

Date: 1968
Description: Ansel Adams checks the time as he records exposure information into his logbook during a photo shoot. His 8 x 10 field camera is in the background.
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Romance Koopman and Bobby Koopman

Date: 06 24 1944
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...
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A.A. Lattimer

Date: 08 11 1944
Description: A.A.L., also known as Alva A. Lattimer, columnist and poet whose poems have appeared on the editorial page of the Wisconsin State Journal, working a...
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Dalton Trumbo

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Description: Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, seated at a typewriter.
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Neuss Branch House Office Interior

Date: 1935
Description: Men and women sitting at desks in a large, open office at International Harvester's Neuss branch in Germany. One man in the back is standing and reading a ...
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Robert Bloch at Typewriter

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Description: Robert Albert Bloch, author of Psycho, surrounded by tall bookshelves full of books, is sitting in front of a typewriter with an open cigarette case...
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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).
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Baker Canning Company

Date: 02 23 1978
Description: "Robert O. Baker, president of Baker Canning Company. They pack peas and corn and are a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fall River Canning Company."
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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"The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" Movie Still

Date: 1956
Description: Movie still from the Twentieth Century-Fox movie "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," featuring Gregory Peck (playing Tom Rath). He is smoking a cigarette a...
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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.

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