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| Date: | 11 01 1931 |
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| Description: | Governor Philip F. La Follette presses a telegraph key at the Western Union Office to open an event in Green Bay. |
| Date: | 11 05 1930 |
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| Description: | Governor-elect Philip F. La Follette reading a telegram at the La Follette campaign headquarters. |
| Date: | 11 05 1930 |
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| Description: | Governor elect Philip La Follette sitting and reading a telegram at La Follette headquarters. |
| Date: | 11 05 1930 |
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| Description: | Governor elect Philip La Follette standing and reading a telegram at La Follette headquarters. |
| Date: | 03 23 1961 |
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| Description: | A ham radio operator uses his home radio equipment to allow Wisconsin residents far from home to link to family members via a radio-phone connection. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks with a view of a railroad station and a Western Union telegraph office. Men are standing on the porch of the railroad station, ... |
| Date: | 09 08 1944 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Arthur G. Tappen, manager of the Madison Office, 21 W. Main Street, of the Western Union Telegraph Company since 1915. The Wisconsin State J... |
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| Description: | Man, possibly Milton J. Harphold, sitting at a telegraph desk in the railroad switch tower. |
| Date: | 12 07 1948 |
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| Description: | The new Western Union equipment in the Madison office which is connected with an 'electric brain' in Minneapolis, permitting faster transmission of message... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A view down Depot Street. Business signs read: "Watkins Drug Co." and "We serve Odom's Ice Cream made in Macon sold everywhere." |
| Date: | 10 10 1951 |
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| Description: | Nels Rasmussen, employed at Madison Western Union for 42 years, receives a gold pin for his service from Manager A. G. Tappen. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of the living room of Wabanaki Lodge, a log building with a rustic interior. The room features a large fireplace on the left wall, tables, and wicker... |
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| Description: | Two instructors, Beatrice and Leon Lamoreux, teaching Naval students telegraphy at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). |
| Date: | 04 1930 |
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| Description: | Three Western Union messenger boys with two bicycles and one woman stand on the sidewalk in front of the branch office at 650 State Street. There is snow o... |
| Date: | 04 1930 |
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| Description: | Three Western Union messenger boys pose with a bicycle in front of the Western Union sign at 650 State Street. There is snow on the ground. The messenger b... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Leon Lamoreux sits at his desk in the Western Union office at 21 West Main Street. (This building no longer exists.) He and his wife, Beatrice, later taugh... |
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| Description: | One Naval student operates a telegraph while another student observes, listening with earphones, at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). A typewriter is... |
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| Description: | A man testing telegraph equipment at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio). |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Six women and one man take messages at the Truax Field Message Center, during World War II. Beatrice Lamoreux is sitting at the back table on the left side... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a railroad station at Beaver Lake. Men gather in front of the station on the left where horses and carriages are parked. Signs on the stat... |
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