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Publicity Still from "The Flying Nun"

Date: 08 17 1967
Description: A publicity still from the ABC television situation comedy, "The Flying Nun," which starred Sally Field (center), as Sister Bertrille. With her are actors ...
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Betty Wells at Iowa State Fair

Date: 1946
Description: Actress Betty Wells sitting next to a man, possibly a KRNT radio personality, for a simultaneous radio and television broadcast from the Iowa State Fair.
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Your Puppet Pals

Date: 01 18 1954
Description: Merrillyn (Mrs. Robert) Wegner is shown standing behind a set from "Your Puppet Pals" which includes 3 puppets: Professor Bookworm, Dingle the Clown, and F...
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Pioneer Pauline Frederick

Date: 03 1949
Description: Pauline Frederick (center in the fur coat), then the only woman news broadcaster at ABC, was one of many prominent women who addressed the Advertising Wome...
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When the President Comes to Town

Date: 1979
Description: Press photographers set up their equipment in the press area before they cover a visit by President Jimmy Carter. A scoreboard hangs on the wall in the bac...
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Frank Lloyd Wright at the Unitarian Meeting House

Date: 08 28 1955
Description: Architect Frank Lloyd Wright being filmed for the Omnibus television program. Wright and apprentice Frances Nemtin are standing in front of the Unitarian M...
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Frank Lloyd Wright on the Grounds of the Unitarian Meeting House

Date: 08 28 1955
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright on the grounds of the First Unitarian Society meeting house. Wright was being filmed for the Omnibus television program. The woman with...
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Madison Advertising Club's Banquet

Date: 02 13 1958
Description: Five members of the Madison Advertising Club are shown. They are (L-R) Robert Loomer, WKOW-TV; Martin Wolman, business manager of Madison Newspapers Inc.; ...
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Matrix Table

Date: 03 26 1958
Description: At left is Pauline Frederick, NBC commentator, speaker for the Matrix banquet. She is shown with Elizabeth Risser and Katherine Maurer.
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Madison Women Host Television Shows

Date: 05 15 1958
Description: Madison television programs are hosted by Madison women and cover topics like cooking, arts, fashion and crafts. A husband and wife team, Bea and Carson Gu...
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Newton Minow on Roosevelt Television Show

Date: 1962
Description: John F. White, president of National Educational Television and Radio Center (left), and Newton Minow, F.C.C. chairman (center) join Eleanor Roosevelt in a...
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Muscular Dystrophy Telethon

Date: 09 15 1953
Description: Man and woman looking at a box of money in relation to a WKOW-TV Muscular Dystrophy telethon to raise money for a cure of the disease.
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Merrillyn Wegner with her Puppets

Date: 12 10 1953
Description: Merrillyn (Mrs. Robert) Wegner is shown holding puppets and standing in front of a set from "Your Puppet Pals", a weekly show on WKOW-TV. She has a smiling...
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New York Television Writer Gives Advice to Women

Date: 08 14 1957
Description: Mrs. Joyce Wickware, a former Madison resident, shares some advice to young women planning careers in the field of television. She has spent the past five ...
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Women Journalists

Date: 03 01 1958
Description: The four journalists who have been asked to speak for the traditional "ladies night" program of the Madison Advertising Club at the Cuba Club. They are (le...
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Mothers with Careers

Date: 02 02 1959
Description: Beverly Stark, a Madison television personality with two children, is posing with a floral arrangement on a set in front of a television camera. A man is s...
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Esther Van Wagoner Tufty at CNN

Date: 01 23 1982
Description: Esther Van Wagoner Tufty with Elissa Blake Free at the Cable News Network. Typewritten letter with photograph reads, in part: "Dear Duchess, Thank you for ...
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Esther Van Wagoner Tufty with Coya Knutson

Date: 03 1955
Description: Esther Van Wagoner Tufty is sitting with congresswoman Coya Knutson, who is holding a copy of "Better Farming." A television camera is in the left foregrou...

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