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| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | "Modern" 1970s style room with "love" design, white vinyl chairs, flowered coffee mugs and Plexiglas furnishings. Includes a stack of records with "The In ... |
| Date: | 09 27 1934 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin Professor Miles L. Hanley watching coeds Laura Severson and Theressa Fein, while they are working on transcriptions for a linguisti... |
| Date: | 04 22 1967 |
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| Description: | Two junior high students work on a project that requires making a vocal recording. |
| Date: | 11 10 1963 |
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| Description: | A couple that used a "couple computer" that matched preferences choose a record. |
| Date: | 02 18 1959 |
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| Description: | Language teachers listening to foreign languages on tape decks at an institute for public school language teachers at Mount Mary College. |
| Date: | 01 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Montgomery Ward Company phonograph record department, 215 State Street. |
| Date: | 01 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the interior of the Montgomery Ward Company phonograph record department, 215 State Street. |
| Date: | 09 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Hill's Department Store, 202 State Street, display window featuring a sale on 12" 33 1/3 RPM long play records. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A crowd surrounds a 10-foot mechanical mannequin of Alice in Dairyland at an Alice display for the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The Alice could raise h... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Aline W. Hazard (in hat) of WHA Radio, recording and interviewing Mrs. Robert Jahnke (Corrine) at Forest Acres Deer Farm. Mrs. Jahnke holds a pair of earri... |
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| Description: | Aline W. Hazard (holding WHA microphone), interviewing women at a craft fair. |
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| Description: | Aline W. Hazard (holding WHA microphone), Director of the Homemakers' Program, WHA-Radio and TV, with a University of Wisconsin-Madison Home Economics clas... |
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| Description: | Aline W. Hazard checks a stopwatch as a boy dressed in pajamas speaks into a microphone. The boy is seated on a couch with his parents and younger brother.... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | International Harvester truck dealer Vern Netteschiem listening to recorded truck specifications while he sleeps. The Dormiphone was a clock-controlled tap... |
| Date: | 12 11 1951 |
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| Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy prepares to play a tape recording at a dinner honoring him. McCarthy said the tape caught Harry Bridges speaking about plotting ... |
| Date: | 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Dr. Robert West, director of the University of Wisconsin speech clinic, and Martha Heffernen, psychologist, broadcast the WHA radio station "Our Children" ... |
| Date: | 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Robert Wickhen, recording engineer, is cutting a recording at WHA Radio Station. |
| Date: | 04 09 1948 |
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| Description: | Gertrude Johnson, emeritus associate professor of speech at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shown with a phonograph album she received as a retirement... |
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