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Trouble Shooting

Date: 09 29 1962
Description: Electronics training at the United School of Electronic Trades gives a student the opportunity to trouble shoot problems.
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Electronic Voltametric Apparatus

Date: 08 27 1982
Description: Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. provides an opportunity for a university engineering student to have hands-on experience and instruction from a company re...
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Westinghouse Window Display

Date: 12 03 1934
Description: Westinghouse Electric Supply Co., 1022 East Washington Avenue, window display featuring Westinghouse appliances and a female model using a mangle.
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Comfy Marcel Shoppe Interior

Date: 11 22 1934
Description: Five beauty operators and four customers in the Comfy Marcel Shoppe, 1917 Winnebago Street, beauty parlor. Includes advertising text: "For better beauty cu...
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Cedric Parker Gets a Facial

Date: 11 24 1933
Description: Lucille Bump, beauty operator, applying a mudpack to the face of Cedric Parker, Capital Times newsman at Mrs. Wengel's Marinello Shop, 125 State Street.
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Electrical Switchboard

Date: 02 24 1932
Description: New electrical switchboard for the State Office Building.
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Lie Detector Test

Date: 12 04 1931
Description: Technicians administer a lie detector test at District Attorney Fred Risser's office to be used in the James Corcoran poisoning case.
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Interference Eliminator for a Radio

Date: 09 29 1930
Description: Interference eliminator for a radio, made by Kidder's Radio Shop.
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Electrical Control Board

Date: 10 13 1928
Description: Electrical control board at the new Orpheum Theatre at 216 State Street.
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Thordarson's Multiple Lighting Transformer

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Description: Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo...
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Rexair Company Employees

Date: 11 25 1947
Description: Group portrait of Rexair (vacuum cleaner) Company male and female employees in the Pompeii Room of the Loraine Hotel, with a live turkey and a poster that ...
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Electric Lighting Attachment for Farmall Tractor

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Description: Parts for an electric lighting attachment (Robert Bosch "No-Battery" Type) for a Farmall tractor.
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Len Schmitt Senate Campaign

Date: 08 13 1952
Description: Len Schmitt, former Progressive Party legislator from Merrill, led the Republican opposition to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's bid for re-election. Schmitt a...
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International Model S Electric Company Truck

Date: 12 1926
Description: International Model S truck parked on a residential street. The truck was operated by the Sievert Electric Company. Text on the side of the truck reads: "S...
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Test of a Prototype

Date: 11 08 1961
Description: A prototype being tested in the research test lab of the Falk Corporation. Original Falk caption reads, "Temperature lube test, 8RT3 Prototype. Set up of l...
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Man Operating Mechanical Arms

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Description: An African American man operating a series of large, mechanical arms to manipulate various bottles and scientific instruments. At the Oak Ridge Atomic Muse...
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Movie Shown at Highlander

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Description: A movie being shown at Highlander Folk School. Still frame reads, "I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half," a Jay Gould quote. G...
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Zilphia Horton with Film Projector

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Description: Zilphia Horton attentively learning to operate a film projector.
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Man Mowing Grounds of Estate

Date: 1899
Description: Elevated view of a male grounds keeper operating a horse-drawn mower on the grounds of an estate. A pond with lily pads and a gazebo are in the foreground,...
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New Lighting in WHS Library Lobby

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Description: A worker on scaffolding installs ceiling tiles and new lights, concealing the plaster coffers in the library lobby of the Wisconsin Historical Society.

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