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Announcer Del Viney Inside WVLR Studio

Date: 1965
Description: Radio announcer Del Viney on the air inside Wisconsin's Very Live Radio (WVLR) station during the dinner music show. Caption reads: "Dinner Music Show is a...
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Percussionist at WIBA

Date: 10 03 1930
Description: A tuxedo-clad percussionist standing at his marimbas, with other instruments including a gong, drum kit, and tympani behind him at the WIBA radio station.
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Len Schmitt Senate Campaign

Date: 08 13 1952
Description: Len Schmitt, former Progressive Party legislator from Merrill, led the Republican opposition to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's bid for re-election. Schmitt a...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Announcer

Date: 07 09 1949
Description: A Soap Box Derby announcer (either Lon Landman or Dwaine Tucker) sitting at a WIBA microphone.
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Seventeenth Annual Radio Music Festival

Date: 05 06 1950
Description: Professor E.B. Gordon conducts at the seventeenth annual radio music festival. Professor Gordon has a radio class of 90,000 boys and girls who are enrolled...
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News Broadcaster Promotes Scrap Drive

Date: 1942
Description: News broadcaster Bon Turner makes an appeal over the radio to farmers to bring their scrap metal into town to help meet the country's need for vital war ma...
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Carson Gulley

Date: 07 22 1951
Description: Carson Gulley, chef for UW dormitories, sitting at a table in front of a WIBA microphone. He is wearing a chef's hat and white uniform.
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McCormick-Deering Sisters and Big Brother Johnny

Date: 1938
Description: Group portrait of the McCormick-Deering Sisters and Big Brother Johnny, taken at the KCRC studios. Original caption reads: "Radio Talent "McCormick-Deering...
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Price Control Broadcast, WRJN

Date: 08 18 1946
Description: Pro price-control broadcast at WRJN. A woman and two men stand encircling a microphone holding scripts. A clock is on the wall behind them and a piano [?] ...
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Roma Borst

Date: 05 11 1954
Description: Portrait of Roma Borst, a Spanish-language PhD candidate and a Spanish department teaching assistant. She lead long summer tours of Europe and traveled ext...
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WTMJ Radio Booth

Date: 1977
Description: "Radio personality, Gordon Hinkley, appeared in the WTMJ radio booth at the Wisconsin State Fair."
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Obey Replies to Reagan

Date: 08 30 1986
Description: Congressman David R. Obey delivering the Democrat's reply to a Labor Day speech by President Ronald Reagan.
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Jim Hightower

Date: 1988
Description: Texas political activist and broadcaster James Hightower at a political event for Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey.
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WKOW Radio Station

Date: 1952
Description: "Uncle Julius and His Boys" band playing for the Doughboy Dinner concert.
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Minow Talking with a Man

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Description: Newton Minow and another man are talking while seated in front of a map on the wall.
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Charles E. Broughton Delivering Election Returns

Date: 11 08 1932
Description: Charles E. Broughton delivering election returns over WHBL.
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Lions Club Constitution Day Luncheon

Date: 09 16 1953
Description: Speaker at podium giving a talk at the Lions Club Constitution Day luncheon in front of WISC microphones.
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24th Annual Radio Music Festival of the WHA Wisconsin School of the Air

Date: 05 11 1957
Description: The 24th annual Radio Music Festival of the WHA Wisconsin School of the Air held at the U.W. Stock Pavilion attended by 2,019 boys and girls. Margaret Merl...
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Madison Radio Disc Jockeys

Date: 09 08 1957
Description: While most of WHA's music is on the serious side, Robert Homme plays light, contemporary tunes on his morning programs. Here he signals an engineer to "cut...
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Symposium at the Opening of the National Mass Communications History Center

Date: 01 25 1958
Description: Four national news commentators who conducted a symposium at the formal opening of the Wisconsin State Historical Society's new National Mass Communication...

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