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| Date: | 10 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Miss Lillian Nitcher using the telephone. She is the associate executive secretary of the Community Welfare Council, and executive secretary of the Madison... |
| Date: | 10 25 1957 |
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| Description: | Lt. Col. Lassiter Thompson sits behind his desk at Truax Field. He is the newly appointed commander of the 61st Fighter Interceptor Squadron. |
| Date: | 11 15 1957 |
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| Description: | The original caption states: "the Wisconsin Telephone Co.'s one-millionth telephone now in service was presented to Gov. Vernon W. Thomson by Charles E. Wa... |
| Date: | 11 18 1957 |
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| Description: | Two women relax in the lounge of Kroger's Midvale Plaza, 525 South Midvale Boulevard, while shopping at the supermarket. The lounge is a special feature of... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Image from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with three girls standing and sitting at a table with a play telephone, a kitchen beater, and play dishe... |
| Date: | 10 28 1957 |
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| Description: | State Luther Leaguers gather for a convention at Luther Memorial Church. Two members of the housing committee are shown at work; they are, from left: Jeann... |
| Date: | 01 03 1958 |
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| Description: | Plans are being completed for the organization of a Women's Auxiliary to the Dane County Bar Association. Wives of the lawyers will make up the membership.... |
| Date: | 03 14 1958 |
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| Description: | Members of the Dane County Medical Society, the Methodist Hospital Nurses' Alumnae Association, and the Dane County Unit of the American Cancer Society pre... |
| Date: | 01 29 1959 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Gaylord Nelson, wife of the governor and honorary chairman of the Dane County mental health campaign, places one of the first telephone calls to recru... |
| Date: | 03 01 1959 |
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| Description: | Six women, three with scripts, rehearse at a table set with a prop telephone. The original caption states: "Members of St. James Players will present a pla... |
| Date: | 03 25 1959 |
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| Description: | Four women taking part in a skit at the Madison League of Women Voters convention at the Unitarian Meeting House. Left to right are: Mrs. Mary Newgent, Mrs... |
| Date: | 05 01 1959 |
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| Description: | Howie Mazur has a telephone conversation with his favorite girl. The photograph was taken as part of a series entitled, "What to Do on a Date." |
| Date: | 10 27 1959 |
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| Description: | The theme "Every Call Counts" at the first United Givers report luncheon will be symbolized by the huge replica of a telephone. Shown with the phone are (l... |
| Date: | 01 25 1960 |
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| Description: | Southwest Wisconsin Council of the Telephone Pioneers of America, as their community service project, present a piano to the Children's Unit of University ... |
| Date: | 02 17 1960 |
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| Description: | Members of the Madison Youth Council telephone local home owners about providing sleeping rooms for young fans in town for the State Basketball Tournament.... |
| Date: | 11 19 1927 |
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| Description: | Young woman sitting at a typewriter, presumably a staff employee, in the office of the Indiana Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. |
| Date: | 03 21 1961 |
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| Description: | GA (general assignment?) reporter for the Wisconsin State Journal (?) sitting at a desk. |
| Date: | 11 06 1961 |
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| Description: | Certified professional secretary Dorothy Ogle, who is secretary to her husband, Sam, the executive director of the Wisconsin Retail Merchants Association. |
| Date: | 07 26 1962 |
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| Description: | With the Telstar model in the foreground and University of Wisconsin President Conrad Elvehjem looking on, Professor Arthur Code made a transatlantic telep... |
| Date: | 07 26 1962 |
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| Description: | Fred Bjorkstem, a Finnish student at U.W., made a transatlantic telephone call to Finland from Sterling Hall via the Telstar communications satellite. Tels... |
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