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Frank M. Bignell

Date: 12 1946
Description: WIBA Program Director, Frank M. Bignell, seated behind a radio microphone.
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Bicycle Safety Week

Date: 04 29 1947
Description: Two men presenting a bicycle safety award to a young boy in front of a NBC WIBA radio microphone.
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WHA Radio Station

Date: 01 1948
Description: Supervising a WHA radio broadcast are Karl Schmidt, dramatic producer, and Ernest Engberg, studio operator. They are sitting at a desk in front of a window...
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WHA Radio Station

Date: 01 1948
Description: Mae Hoeft, sitting on right, and Rosalind (Ronnie) Krug Fenz, standing on ladder, are assembling recordings for a WHA Radio music program.
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Woman Reading to Girls

Date: 03 04 1948
Description: Radio station WIBA Story Corner Lady, Jeanne Remus, reading a book to Ann and Kathy Taylor, daughters of Robert and Fannie Taylor, 1921 Keyes Avenue. The S...
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WIBA-FM Tower

Date: 05 26 1948
Description: WIBA-FM, 45,000 watts, tower was built at Blue Mounds Park, and radiated power starting about June 10, 1948. WIBA was established in 1925 by The Capital...
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WIBA-FM Tower And Transmitting Station

Date: 07 19 1948
Description: The higher antenna of the WIBA tower and transmitting station increased the power of the station for the newly operational FM transmission at the Blue Moun...
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Reverend William Waltmire

Date: 10 18 1948
Description: Portrait of Reverend William Waltmire, pastor at the Bashford Methodist Church, as he prepares for the broadcast of the worship service over station WFOW-F...
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A.W. Bareis, George Forster and Bruce Weatherly

Date: 12 28 1948
Description: City Clerk Alfred W. Bareis swears in police chief Bruce Weatherly in front of WKOW and WIBA microphones. George Forster, city finance director and acting...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Announcer

Date: 07 07 1949
Description: A man, probably Ross Gordon or Pat Hernon, stands at a WKOW microphone while acting as the announcer for the Soap Box Derby.
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Madison Soap Box Derby Announcer

Date: 07 09 1949
Description: A Soap Box Derby announcer (either Lon Landman or Dwaine Tucker) sitting at a WIBA microphone.
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Seventeenth Annual Radio Music Festival

Date: 05 06 1950
Description: Professor E.B. Gordon conducts at the seventeenth annual radio music festival. Professor Gordon has a radio class of 90,000 boys and girls who are enrolled...
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Carson Gulley

Date: 07 22 1951
Description: Carson Gulley, chef for UW dormitories, sitting at a table in front of a WIBA microphone. He is wearing a chef's hat and white uniform.
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Winkie, Vilas Zoo Elephant

Date: 05 27 1952
Description: Bob Dick, WIBA Radio Program Director, interviews Harold Hayes, Director of the Vilas Zoo, at the "coming out" party and birthday of Winkie the elephant.
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WIBA Radio Performers

Date: 03 04 1954
Description: Portrait of Marion Hoesly seated at a piano. She and her daughter Luan Hoesly, who played an electric organ, performed duets for a weekly radio broadcast o...
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WIBA Radio Performers

Date: 03 04 1954
Description: Portrait of Luan Hoesly seated at an electric organ keyboard. She and her mother Marion Hoesly, who played a piano, performed duets for a weekly radio broa...
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Roma Borst

Date: 05 11 1954
Description: Portrait of Roma Borst, a Spanish-language PhD candidate and a Spanish department teaching assistant. She lead long summer tours of Europe and traveled ext...
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United Givers Campaign Fair Share Plan

Date: 09 08 1954
Description: Jack Buechler of 518 West Mifflin Street, radio announcer for Station WKOW, tells why he likes the "fair share" plan of the United Givers Campaign.
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WKOW Radio Transmitter

Date: 09 22 1953
Description: WKOW radio transmitter.

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