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| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Christopher Latham Sholes posing at a typewriter. |
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| Description: | View outside John Royal's office door. There are milk bottles and newspapers piled at the door and on it hangs a sign that reads "Out As Usual". |
| Date: | 02 15 1957 |
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| Description: | John Fischer, age 11, demonstrates his invention, a "walking and talking" robot. The robot's eyes light up, and it rolls back and forth on a platform. |
| Date: | 01 23 1958 |
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| Description: | Female telephone switchboard operator at work. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | McCormick Harvesting Machine Company office building from the corner of Market and Jackson streets. The building's address was 212 Market Street. Offices f... |
| Date: | 10 28 1936 |
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| Description: | Mechanic "Cash" Parmley removing the oil pump from an International truck engine block inside the service shop of a McCormick-Deering dealership. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Female employees inside the teletype room at International Harvester's general office. |
| Date: | 02 06 1946 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 19 1944 |
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| Description: | A telephone operator wearing a headset sits in front of a switchboard at the Oscar Mayer Co. |
| Date: | 02 17 1938 |
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| Description: | Regina Groves (Mrs. Earl Barnhart), sitting at her desk, operating an interdepartment communication system at the Groves School for Secretaries. Behind her... |
| Date: | 02 17 1938 |
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| Description: | Secretary using the telephone at the Groves School for Secretaries, with notepad, telephone and intercom. There is a classroom in the background, seen thro... |
| Date: | 05 14 1937 |
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| Description: | Clerk and customer at Savidusky's cleaners, located at 113 Monona Avenue. |
| Date: | 12 27 1935 |
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| Description: | View across snow-covered ground towards four men constructing the W.I.B.A. radio transmission tower. |
| Date: | 09 26 1935 |
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| Description: | Rev. Edwin O. Kennedy sitting at a desk writing a letter, Christ Presbyterian Church, 124 Wisconsin Avenue. There is a telephone on the desk, and books are... |
| Date: | 11 24 1933 |
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| Description: | Cedric Parker, Capital Times reporter, gets his hair curled with a permanent wave machine attached to his hair, at Mrs. Wengel's Marinello Shop, 125 State ... |
| Date: | 01 12 1932 |
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| Description: | William J. Danielson, manager of the Theronoid Company, sitting at his desk. The company was located in Room 707-708, State Bank of Wisconsin, 1 West Main ... |
| Date: | 12 26 1931 |
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| Description: | Grace Putnam, executive secretary of the Madison Woman's Club, in the Woman's Building, 240 W. Gilman street. |
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