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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
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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Laboratory Experiment

Date: 1928
Description: Professor Hull conducting an experiment at the Psychological laboratory of the University of Wisconsin.
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Checking the Biologicals Supply

Date: 02 08 1941
Description: A clerk checks the status of the refrigerated stocks of various biological materials at the D.F. Jones Pharmacy.
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Woman with Blender

Date: 03 18 1955
Description: Woman stirring the contents of an Osterizer blender that is sitting on the stove.
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Airline Computer Network

Date: 09 26 1984
Description: A woman uses an early commercial computer network that allows travel agents to book their own flights without the use of a telephone.
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Switchboard Operator

Date: 01 23 1958
Description: Female telephone switchboard operator at work.
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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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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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Television

Date: 1950
Description: A young woman is displaying a television set.
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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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IH Teletype Room

Date: 1937
Description: Female employees inside the teletype room at International Harvester's general office.
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Irma Harding, Spokesperson for IH Refrigerators

Date: 1947
Description: Publicity photograph of Irma Harding pointing out features of a new model refrigerator. Ms. Harding was a fictional character who acted as a spokesperson ...
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Oscar Mayer and Co. Telephone Operator

Date: 01 19 1944
Description: A telephone operator wearing a headset sits in front of a switchboard at the Oscar Mayer Co.
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Regina Groves at Her Desk

Date: 02 17 1938
Description: Regina Groves (Mrs. Earl Barnhart), sitting at her desk, operating an interdepartment communication system at the Groves School for Secretaries. Behind her...
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Secretary Using Telephone

Date: 02 17 1938
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...
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Girl Singer

Date: 08 03 1937
Description: Full-length portrait of girl singer in floor length polka dot dress standing in front of a microphone. Taken for Anson Weeks orchestra.
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Savidusky's Cleaners

Date: 05 14 1937
Description: Clerk and customer at Savidusky's cleaners, located at 113 Monona Avenue.
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Rev. Edwin O. Kennedy

Date: 09 26 1935
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...
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Nurse in front of Refrigerator

Date: 04 16 1935
Description: A nurse in uniform standing in front of an open refrigerator, checking vials of medicines at the Wisconsin General Hospital.

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