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Charles E. Broughton Delivering Election Returns

Date: 11 08 1932
Description: Charles E. Broughton delivering election returns over WHBL.
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Niebuhr Speaking On the Radio

Date: 01 1950
Description: Reinhold Niebuhr speaking into a radio microphone for the station WCFM at a dinner for Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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Dr. Jonathan Lee Overby

Date: 01 11 1982
Description: Waist-up portrait of Dr. Jonathan Lee Overby, a bandleader, baritone singer, and radio host on WORT, and then on WPR. At the time this portrait was taken, ...
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Lions Club Constitution Day Luncheon

Date: 09 16 1953
Description: Speaker at podium giving a talk at the Lions Club Constitution Day luncheon in front of WISC microphones.
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24th Annual Radio Music Festival of the WHA Wisconsin School of the Air

Date: 05 11 1957
Description: The 24th annual Radio Music Festival of the WHA Wisconsin School of the Air held at the U.W. Stock Pavilion attended by 2,019 boys and girls. Margaret Merl...
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24th Annual Radio Music Festival of the WHA Wisconsin School of the Air

Date: 05 11 1957
Description: Warren Wooldridge conducts the 24th Annual Radio Music Festival of the WHA Wisconsin School of the Air concert held at the U.W. Stock Pavilion attended by ...
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Madison Radio Disc Jockeys

Date: 09 08 1957
Description: Lee Wesner of WISC watches the clock, while using one hand on a switch while the other hand is pausing a vinyl record on a spinning turntable.
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Madison Radio Disc Jockeys

Date: 09 08 1957
Description: Jon Luck is shown wearing headphones, is surrounded by turntables, a microphone, and notes and scripts for commercials, while broadcasting "The Madison Hou...
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Madison Radio Disc Jockeys

Date: 09 08 1957
Description: Jim Walters of WMFM holding a Wisconsin State Journal newspaper as he is watching a vinyl record begin. He interlaces music and comments on the news...
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Madison Radio Disc Jockeys

Date: 09 08 1957
Description: Chuck Moffett, a disc jockey at WKOW, spins vinyl records on his show "Music with Moffett" and other programs. He is wearing headphones and is holding a ci...
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Madison Radio Disc Jockeys

Date: 09 08 1957
Description: While most of WHA's music is on the serious side, Robert Homme plays light, contemporary tunes on his morning programs. Here he signals an engineer to "cut...
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Symposium at the Opening of the National Mass Communications History Center

Date: 01 25 1958
Description: Four national news commentators who conducted a symposium at the formal opening of the Wisconsin State Historical Society's new National Mass Communication...
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National Realtor Week Luncheon

Date: 04 15 1959
Description: Special guests at the National Realtor Week luncheon included representatives of newspapers, television, radio, and lending institutions such as banks and ...
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Young Disc Jockeys

Date: 1965
Description: Caption reads: "Young Disc Jockeys, Mary Speth and Peggy Schaefer, get briefing from announcer, Del Viney. Station strictly limits rock-'n-roll to one hour...
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Fan Mail

Date: 1965
Description: Caption reads: "Fan Mail. Writes widow in rest home: 'I think WVLR has put new pep into everybody.'"
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Jim Ameche

Date: 02 24 1943
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of radio actor Jim Ameche. The image was used for a newspaper advertisement. Caption reads: "Jim Ameche, The MANHATTAN STORY Te...
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Jim Ameche

Date: 07 03 1938
Description: Waist-up portrait of radio actor Jim Ameche, who is holding a sheet of paper and standing behind an NBC microphone.
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Textile Problems

Date: 1959
Description: Two men are seated at a small table facing each other with a microphone suspended between them. Caption reads: "TEXTILE PROBLEMS make the airwaves. Left, G...

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