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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: | 10 27 1930 |
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| Description: | Oversized telegram displayed in a empty store window and addressed to Mayor Albert G. Schmedeman inviting him to see the motion picture "Check and Double C... |
| Date: | 03 23 1961 |
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| Description: | A ham radio operator uses his home radio equipment to allow Wisconsin residents far from home to link to family members via a radio-phone connection. |
| 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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks with a view of a railroad station and a Western Union telegraph office. Men are standing on the porch of the railroad station, ... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Man, possibly Milton J. Harphold, sitting at a telegraph desk in the railroad switch tower. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Two women and two young boys pose in front of the Koss Depot, which also serves as a post office and telegraph office. |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Two instructors, Beatrice and Leon Lamoreux, teaching Naval students telegraphy at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). |
| 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: | 04 1930 |
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| Description: | Three Western Union messenger boys with two bicycles and one woman stand on the sidewalk in front of the branch office at 650 State Street. There is snow o... |
| Date: | 04 1930 |
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| Description: | A woman stands outside of the Western Union office at 650 State Street. She is next to a Western Union sign and several bicycles, and there is snow on the ... |
| Date: | 04 1930 |
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| Description: | Three Western Union messenger boys pose with a bicycle in front of the Western Union sign at 650 State Street. There is snow on the ground. The messenger b... |
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