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Telegraph Operator

Date: 09 27 1956
Description: Miss Nellie Millane sits at the telegraph key at Western Union Telegraph Co. where she worked as a Morse Code operator for 49 years.
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Working the Linotype

Date: 1950
Description: A woman types text into a linotype machine.
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Quick Set

Date: 04 26 1954
Description: Intern holds letter set and watches Linotype operator at "Mid-County Times" newspaper room.
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Sears Profit Sharing Employees

Date: 02 18 1956
Description: Group portrait of the nine members longest in standing in the Madison Sears, Roebuck and Company "savings and profit-sharing pension fund." They are, left ...
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University of Wisconsin Student Wives Who Work

Date: 02 07 1956
Description: Fern Theberath is a typist for the State Industrial Commission. She sets the table for her University Dames neighborhood group to meet in her apartment. He...
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National Business and Professional Women's Week

Date: 09 18 1956
Description: Wisconsin governor Walter J. Kohler signs a proclamation for National Business and Professional Women's Week. Looking on are, left to right: Mrs. Herbert E...
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Mrs. Thomson's BPW Tea

Date: 08 21 1957
Description: Club members in attendance at Mrs. Thomson's Business and Professional Women's Tea are Lorraine Jones, co-chair of the public affairs committee; Ethel Paul...
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Mrs. Thomson's BPW Tea

Date: 09 21 1957
Description: Roxie Connabble, chairman of the courtesy committee, Margaret Smith, legislation committee chairman, and Bertha Frautschi chatingt together at Mrs. Thomson...
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Dane County Medical Assistants' Bosses Night

Date: 02 05 1959
Description: Doctors and medical assistants attend the annual Bosses Night party. From left to right are: Dr. Frank Bernard, Peg Clark, Mary Macken, and Dr. Gordon Dave...
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Emergency Medical Technicians

Date: 10 1986
Description: Theresa's Emergency Medical Technicians posing for Emergency Medical Service Week.
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Spot-Checking Production Line

Date: 04 1953
Description: Mae Houston inspecting a new supply of Pantry-Dors for the model L-103 refrigerator with a man on a factory floor.
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Mae Houston Discussing Foot Pedal Design

Date: 1953
Description: Mae Houston discussing foot pedal design of the Decorator with Ray Edwards and M. Jura of Experimental and Test.
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Portrait of Social Worker Helen Hilton

Date: 11 05 1965
Description: Portrait of social worker Helen Hilton, 1919 U.W. graduate, taken upon her retirement from the city welfare department. She had worked more than 40 years a...
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Angeline Oiyotte Johnson

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Angeline Oiyotte Johnson in her X-Ray Technician uniform. The facility was located in Chicago.

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