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Wendell Willkie Speaking in Richland Center

Date: 03 18 1944
Description: Wendell Willkie giving a campaign speech in 1944 in the Richland Center High School gymnasium. There is a WIBU microphone with a sign for Wisconsin Network...
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Group Listening to V-E Day Radio Commentary

Date: 05 08 1945
Description: Two women and three men (one in uniform) gathered around a table listening to a radio commentary on V-E (Victory in Europe) Day.
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Man Deplaning Airplane following Rose Bowl Trip

Date: 01 02 1953
Description: Football coach Ivy Williamson (?) is interviewed by a man with a radio transmitter on the steps of the airplane upon his return from the Rose Bowl game.
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Man Standing at WHA Microphone

Date: 04 02 1944
Description: Mr. Witte, possibly Edwin E. Witte, at a WHA microphone.
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WHA Summer Radio Workshop

Date: 07 12 1944
Description: Three persons at the summer radio workshop sponsored by WHA Radio on the University of Wisconsin campus. Jack Steel shows Senta Lorenz on the left and Ruth...
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WHA Summer Radio Workshop

Date: 07 12 1944
Description: People re-enact a radio broadcast at the summer radio workshop sponsored by WHA Radio on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. At the microphone is ...
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WHA Summer Radio Workshop

Date: 07 12 1944
Description: Three women at the summer radio workshop sponsored by WHA Radio on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. In the middle is Peg Bolger of the WHA staff...
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WHA Summer Radio Workshop

Date: 07 12 1944
Description: Edwin Helman gets advice from Mrs. Romance Koopman about a script. On the wall behind them is a mural depicting three men important in the founding of stat...
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"We Say What We Think Club"

Date: 05 30 1950
Description: WIBA radio personalities, Selma (Mrs. Cornelius) Sorenson, Sibylle (Mrs. George) Mitchell, Isabel (Mrs. August) Baumann, Grace (Mrs. John) Langer, and Ruth...
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"Truax Field Calling" Radio Show

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Truax Field soldiers produce a weekly radio show, "Truax Field Calling" for WIBA, broadcasting from the field. Shown performing at the microphone, left to ...
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"Truax Field Calling" Radio Show

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Truax Field soldiers produce a weekly radio show, "Truax Field Calling" for WIBA, broadcasting from the field. The band is shown from the balcony at the Se...
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"Truax Field Calling" Radio Show

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Truax Field soldiers produce a weekly radio show, "Truax Field Calling" for WIBA, broadcasting from the field. Shown at a jam session are, left to right, P...
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WHA Studio

Date: 02 26 1945
Description: WHA studio, with two women and two men posing around a microphone. The woman to the immediate left of the microphone has been identified as Dorothy Shinsti...
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Professor Merle Curti at WHA Microphone

Date: 02 28 1945
Description: Prof. Merle Curti at a podium broadcasting a lecture to his class over WHA on "Social and Intellectual History of the U.S."
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NBC-WIBA Broadcast

Date: 04 03 1946
Description: Eight men standing around a microphone in the NBC-WIBA broadcast studio including Charles A. Mittelstadt, radio commentator.
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WIBA Radio Broadcast

Date: 04 27 1946
Description: WIBA radio broadcast showing five young people; one playing the piano, one playing a violin, and three reading scripts.
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Woman Interviewing "Johnny" (Philip Morris)

Date: 06 24 1946
Description: Johnny Roventini (known as "Johnny"), spokesman for Philip Morris cigarettes, is shown being interviewed by a woman at the WIBA radio station.
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Robert Hodgell Exhibiting his Paintings

Date: 10 05 1946
Description: Robert Overman Hodgell (left), is shown viewing some of his paintings which were done while he was serving with the navy in the South Pacific. Byron C. Jo...
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Radio Station WHA Staff

Date: 03 13 1947
Description: Dr. William H. Lighty, one of the guiding forces behind Radio Station WHA in its infancy, is shown at the lower left, duplicating the position he was in ba...
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German Radiomen Visit WHA

Date: 07 10 1948
Description: Group portrait of six German radiomen from the Western Allies' zone visiting WHA, the University of Wisconsin-Madison radio station. The group was in Madis...

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