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| Date: | 01 23 1958 |
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| Description: | Female telephone switchboard operator at work. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Women office workers file and take phone calls in a busy shared work space. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Interior view of an office at International Harvester's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 09 16 1950 |
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| Description: | Caroline Genske, an office worker at Gisholt Machine Company, starts the process of check writing for the nearly one hundred percent participation of the c... |
| Date: | 10 03 1951 |
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| Description: | Edith Kramer, of 325 West Main Street, sits at a desk in the office. She is the private secretary to Madison Mayor George Forster. |
| Date: | 07 03 1952 |
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| Description: | Police officer Roy Holtzman giving Paul and Mark Hoover their new bicycle licenses. He is sitting at the first cash register to be used by the police depar... |
| Date: | 08 05 1952 |
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| Description: | The portrait shows "attractive, blue-eyed Mary Cassidy, one of the topnotch players in Madison's feminine softball league." She was employed as a bookkeepe... |
| Date: | 08 04 1953 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a young woman seated at a typewriter with cigarettes, glasses case, and ash tray nearby and a Greyhound calendar on the wall. Noted to be a Dut... |
| Date: | 10 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Elizabeth Stemp (right), owner of the Stemp Typewriter Company, shows a typewriter to customer Mildred Subey, associated with the Herfurth Insurance Agenc... |
| Date: | 08 06 1957 |
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| Description: | Robert Simpson (right), wearing a soap box derby helmet, receiving a bank book with a $25 savings account as a prize for 'best sport' due to a cut hand and... |
| Date: | 10 16 1955 |
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| Description: | Burkie West and his grandaughter Catherine West answer a police officer's questions after their automobile was hit by a train. Both incurred minor injuries... |
| Date: | 04 1956 |
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| Description: | Paul Vanderbilt, Curator of the Iconographic Collections (1954-1972), State Historical Society of Wisconsin, examining photographs received from the Mil... |
| Date: | 04 1956 |
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| Description: | Paul Vanderbilt, Curator of the Iconographic Collections (1954-1972), State Historical Society of Wisconsin, examining photographs received from the Mil... |
| Date: | 03 15 1954 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of technicians working at the American Optical Company located on 429 State Street. Men are standing and sitting at several work stations to ... |
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