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Wisconsin Legislature Public Hearing

Date: 02 21 1961
Description: Public hearing on the proposed abolition of the House Un-American Activities committee at the Wisconsin State Capitol. Emil Muelver, Milwaukee, listens to ...
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WHA Radio Station Program

Date: 01 1948
Description: Dr. Robert West, director of the University of Wisconsin speech clinic, and Martha Heffernen, psychologist, broadcast the WHA radio station "Our Children" ...
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Gertrude Johnson

Date: 04 09 1948
Description: Gertrude Johnson, emeritus associate professor of speech at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shown with a phonograph album she received as a retirement...
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Education Press Conference

Date: 1978
Description: Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin (center) holding a press conference about federal funding for education with students at Ellis School. A few journal...
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Bachelors

Date: 02 08 1956
Description: Bachelors James Fagan and Harry Kessenich, Jr. looking at one of many record albums.
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Gifts For Neurological Patients

Date: 09 29 1960
Description: Pauline Dubner, a patient at the Wisconsin Neurological Foundation, poses in her hospital bed next to a new record player in a case. Behind her stand the f...
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It's Off to School We Go

Date: 08 20 1957
Description: Pierre du Vair, a June graduate from Notre Dame University, is shown working at his typewriter and tape recorder preparing for graduate study in economics ...
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U.W. Houses Nursery and Play School

Date: 07 30 1951
Description: Six children are sitting on a canvas with Mrs. Ralph Huitt while listening to a record at U.W. Houses Outdoor Nursery and Play School. Children include Cyn...
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Smart Studios

Date: 11 2010
Description: Interior view of Smart Studios. Smart Studios was a recording studio located on East Washington Avenue in Madison, Wisconsin. It was set up in 1983 by Butc...
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Aline W. Hazard Interviewing a Family

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Description: Aline W. Hazard checks a stopwatch as a boy dressed in pajamas speaks into a microphone. The boy is seated on a couch with his parents and younger brother....
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WIBA Sports Telephones

Date: 05 24 1957
Description: Sue Collins jots down scores she hears transmitted by the new recorder machine as radio station WIBA's automatic telephone system is in operation for the f...
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Edgerton's Pat Boone Fan Club

Date: 07 08 1958
Description: A group of neighbors and friends gather at Janice Hubred's home to listen to Pat Boone recordings. Janice is president of Edgerton's Pat Boone fan club.
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Edgerton's Pat Boone Fan Club

Date: 07 08 1958
Description: Five-year-old Mary Ann Owen (left) listening to Pat Boone singing at the home of Janice Hubred, president of Edgerton's Pat Boone fan club.
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Edgerton's Pat Boone Fan Club

Date: 07 08 1958
Description: Jo Ellen Gessert listens to a recording of Pat Boone singing at the home of Janice Hubred, president of Edgerton's Pat Boone fan club.
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Edgerton's Pat Boone Fan Club

Date: 07 08 1958
Description: Susan Kimberly listens to a recording of Pat Boone singing at the home of Janice Hubred, president of Edgerton's Pat Boone fan club.
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Edgerton's Pat Boone Fan Club

Date: 07 08 1958
Description: Margaret Covert listens to a recording of Pat Boone singing at the home of Janice Hubred, president of Edgerton's Pat Boone fan club.
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It's Off to School We Go

Date: 08 20 1957
Description: Paul du Vair, a hi-fi enthusiast, is shown checking over the vinyl records he plans to take to St. Norbert College this fall.
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Madison Summer Workshop for Deaf Children

Date: 07 26 1950
Description: Mrs. Ella Zilner plays a record of a dog barking for students at the Lapham School summer workshop for deaf children. Listening to the recording are Dianne...
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We Saw You . . . at Madison Libraries

Date: 03 05 1958
Description: Peggy Van Wagenen (left, 122 E. Gilman Street) and Ellen Erickson (right, 1321 Morrison Street), check out an LP vinyl record in the Madison Central Librar...
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Infant Boy

Date: 03 28 1952
Description: A two-month old infant boy on a bassinet. The sounds of his birth were recorded to be used in a program "Birth of a Baby". The program would be broadcast ...

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