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Orpheum Theatre

Date: 04 10 1927
Description: Elevated view of buildings in the 200 block of State Street, with the Orpheum Theatre as a focal point. The theatre marquee reads "New Orpheum." Next door ...
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Christopher Latham Sholes

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Description: Portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes posing at a typewriter.
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La Follette's Labor Day Address

Date: 1924
Description: Independent presidential candidate Robert M. La Follette, Sr., standing behind a radio microphone delivering a Labor Day address.
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Pharmaceutical Refrigerator

Date: 11 04 1940
Description: A pharmacist checks the stocks of biologicals in a large, modern "walk-in" refrigerator.
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Counting Pennies at the Bank

Date: 11 09 1955
Description: A banker pours 12,320 pennies into a change maker. The man had saved the coins for over four years.
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Portable Fan

Date: 06 14 1956
Description: Sam Adair of 4380 N Wildwood Av., Shorewood, Wisconsin wearing fan labeled Rheem Personal Portable Air Conditioner around his neck to stay cool.
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Atomic Plant Demonstration

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Description: Elevated view of a demonstration of a nuclear reactor driven energy plant.
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Family Cast

Date: 02 12 1963
Description: Six members of the same family form the complete cast of a library playhouse production that was to be televised.
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Crane Operator at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1907
Description: A worker lifting a stationary gas engine frame with an overhead crane at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee ...
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Water Skiing

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Description: Woman skiing behind a boat, with a man in the foreground standing in the boat near a Johnson outboard motor.
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Couple Looking at Record

Date: 11 10 1963
Description: A couple that used a "couple computer" that matched preferences choose a record.
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Weather Radar

Date: 1950
Description: Meteorologists using radar equipment outdoors.
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Visitors Enter Diesel Engine Exhibit Trailer

Date: 05 25 1938
Description: Visitors entering the trailer of International Harvester's touring diesel engine exhibit.
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Mechanic Removes Oil Pump from Truck Engine Block

Date: 10 28 1936
Description: Mechanic "Cash" Parmley removing the oil pump from an International truck engine block inside the service shop of a McCormick-Deering dealership.
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Tractor Works' Sand Blast Booth

Date: 1935
Description: Factory worker in a protective suit, mask, and gloves cleaning engine blocks in the foundry sand blast booth at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
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Making First Dial Telephone Call in Mazomanie

Date: 02 06 1946
Description: Mazomanie Village President Theodore R. King, seated at a roll top desk, dials the first telephone call to be handled through the Wisconsin Telephone Compa...
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Receiving First Dial Telephone Call in Mazomanie

Date: 02 06 1946
Description: Charles T. Davies, Mazomanie representative of the Wisconsin Telephone Company, receives the first dial telephone call to be handled through the Wisconsin ...
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Lone Cowboy

Date: 01 28 1936
Description: A man dressed as a cowboy is sitting and holding a guitar in front of a microphone in W.I.B.A. studios, 111 King Street, Room 28.
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W.I.B.A. Radio Tower

Date: 12 27 1935
Description: View across snow-covered ground towards four men constructing the W.I.B.A. radio transmission tower.
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Three Hunters

Date: 11 19 1934
Description: Three hunters posing with shotguns and their bounty of a fox, squirrels and rabbits. The man on the right may be UW-Madison chef Carson Gulley.

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