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| Date: | 11 04 1940 |
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| Description: | A busy scene at the Professional Pharmacy. James Robinson, proprietor, stands in front of the prescriptions counter. |
| Date: | 10 12 1931 |
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| Description: | Jesse Smith is on the job as desk sergeant at the Madison Police Department. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A female telephone operator posing sitting at the switchboard. |
| Date: | 10 31 1946 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Ray-O-Vac's large, open fourth floor office with desks and chairs. Behind the desk in the foreground is a large Rolodex in a box on wheels... |
| Date: | 07 27 1949 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Winfield Martin house, 2906 Lakeland Avenue (earlier address: 611 Elmside Boulevard), showing the stairway, with a telephone on a cabinet n... |
| Date: | 06 18 1935 |
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| Description: | Springfield Works storekeeper H.H. Stephenson sits at a desk in his factory office. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Two men, one talking on the telephone with his feet on the desk and another reading paperwork, work at a disorganized desk. Possibly a photograph from an i... |
| Date: | 11 10 1924 |
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| Description: | Customer service counter at Gibson City Implement Company, an International Harvester agricultural equipment dealership. A display board of parts is leanin... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a suit and hat is checking in and signing a piece of paper at a hotel registry desk. A suitcase is sitting at his feet and a hotel employee i... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | Congressman David R. Obey, chair of the Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, discussing foreign policy issues with his st... |
| Date: | 1991 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin was well represented on a congressional leadership trip to the Persian Gulf in 1991. Here Congressman David Obey (in plaid shirt) leans over the ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | "This picture is of the first telephone exchange that I established in Laona. The girl standing is my youngest daughter. This exchange is still operated in... |
| Date: | 11 1907 |
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| Description: | Three men are sitting in an office around a large desk with stacks of books, papers and a telephone. They men are wearing suits, ties and watch fobs, and ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Governor Emmanuel Philipp sits at his desk in a group portrait with his senators. Three other men sit in chairs behind the desk, and eleven men stand in a ... |
| Date: | 06 28 1967 |
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| Description: | View across desk towards a man talking on a telephone and writing in a notebook. Caption reads: "Adam Davis, who is an insurance salesman, represents the g... |
| Date: | 03 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Stanley E. Bennett, a First Wisconsin National Bank cashier, listens to the handset while John T. Frymark, a Wisconsin Telephone Company central office for... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | View of the brightly lit, tiled floor operating room. Cast-iron furniture includes an operating table, with a slanted central opening for drainage of fluid... |
| Date: | 02 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Nurse Loretta Heitkamp talking on the telephone at the Cuba City Hospital and Clinic. |
| Date: | 05 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Veterinarian Dr. R.H. Romaker taking a call from one of his clients. |
| Date: | 09 30 1960 |
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| Description: | While Reynolds Transfer and Storage Co. moved furniture, Russ Gessler, 1250 Elmwood Avenue, Middleton, manager of the mail file, was upstairs waiting in an... |
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