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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: | 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. |
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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... |
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... |
Date: | 07 26 1950 |
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Description: | Mrs. Ella Zilner plays a record of a dog barking for students at the Lapham School summer workshop for deaf children. Listening to the recording are Dianne... |
Date: | 07 30 1951 |
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Description: | Six children are sitting on a canvas with Mrs. Ralph Huitt while listening to a record at U.W. Houses Outdoor Nursery and Play School. Children include Cyn... |
Date: | 03 27 1952 |
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Description: | Four members of a Dane County Medical Society Committee are sitting and standing around tape recording machinery. They had edited a sound tape recording of... |
Date: | 03 28 1952 |
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Description: | A two-month old infant boy on a bassinet. The sounds of his birth were recorded to be used in a program "Birth of a Baby". The program would be broadcast ... |
Date: | 11 2010 |
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Description: | Interior view of Smart Studios. Smart Studios was a recording studio located on East Washington Avenue in Madison, Wisconsin. It was set up in 1983 by Butc... |
Date: | 11 29 1953 |
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Description: | Ruth Anderson, the music librarian at the Madison Public Library, adds another phonograph record to the library's phonographic record collection. |
Date: | 02 08 1956 |
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Description: | Bachelors James Fagan and Harry Kessenich, Jr. looking at one of many record albums. |
Date: | 05 24 1957 |
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Description: | Sue Collins jots down scores she hears transmitted by the new recorder machine as radio station WIBA's automatic telephone system is in operation for the f... |
Date: | 11 18 1959 |
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Description: | Mrs. Barbara Featherstone and Mrs. Edith Norman unveil a Christmas centerpiece for the annual Red Cross Christmas Talking Letter project. The centerpiece w... |
Date: | 09 29 1960 |
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Description: | Pauline Dubner, a patient at the Wisconsin Neurological Foundation, poses in her hospital bed next to a new record player in a case. Behind her stand the f... |
Date: | 03 1955 |
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Description: | Lee Dolnick of the Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association plays a tape recording explaining the upcoming Dane County health survey project. Looking on are... |
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