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| Description: | The World's First Typist, Lillian Sholes, daughter of Christopher Sholes, who invented the first successful typewriter. It was during Mr. Sholes' residence... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Kleinstueber's Machine Shop, where Christopher Latham Sholes perfected his typewriter. The sign on the top of the building reads: "Brass F... |
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| Description: | Men and women wait in an International Harvester company office among desks, typewriters, and other office equipment. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Women and men at work inside an office. The women are using typewriters. A large advertisement for International motor trucks is on one wall. |
| Date: | 05 17 1939 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Auto License Bureau, 16-20 E. Doty Street, Card Typing Department, with women at typewriters and male supervisor. |
| Date: | 05 17 1939 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 05 1938 |
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| Description: | Remodeled C.U.N.A. (Credit Union National Association) office, Raiffeisen House 142 Gilman Street, after fire, taken from near the door, showing seven peop... |
| Date: | 01 20 1938 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 05 1937 |
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| Description: | A man watching as a woman demonstrates typing on an L.C. Smith typewriter at Jones Typewriter Co., 506 State Street. |
| Date: | 04 24 1929 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 1919 |
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| Description: | A large group of men and women are sitting at typewriters in a gymnasium to take the state civil service exam. |
| Date: | 04 26 1954 |
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| Description: | Intern holds letter set and watches Linotype operator at "Mid-County Times" newspaper room. |
| Date: | 02 04 1947 |
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| Description: | Man and woman reviewing a document in an office, with three women working in the background at CUNA (Credit Union National Association). |
| Date: | 07 25 1945 |
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| Description: | Lieut. Albert L. David showing his wife, Georgia, the souvenirs he brought from the capture of the German U-505 underseas craft. He stood two days and nigh... |
| Date: | 06 10 1924 |
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| Description: | P.M. Phillips, manager of the Office Farmers Exchange, sits behind a desk, with a woman typing on one side and a seated man on the other. A McCormick-Deeri... |
| Date: | 02 25 1948 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Joseph (Betty Pruett) Farrington, former police reporter, recalls work days with Russell B. Pyre, current reporter. She was a police reporter from 191... |
| Date: | 09 1948 |
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| Description: | Newsroom of the Louisville Times, where Anne (typing, at the right), and Carl Braden (left), worked as journalists. |
| Date: | 01 28 1949 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of part of the City Room with staff, "Wisconsin State Journal". |
| Date: | 01 28 1949 |
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| Description: | The Advertising Department of the "Wisconsin State Journal" has artists, copy writers, and technical experts to "help you shop." |
| Date: | 05 02 1949 |
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| Description: | Beverly Hackbart of 2541 Commerical Avenue sitting at her typewriter at the Madison Business College, 215 West Washington Avenue. She will be crowned queen... |
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