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Switchboard Operator

Date: 01 23 1958
Description: Female telephone switchboard operator at work.
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Office Work

Date: 1950
Description: Women office workers file and take phone calls in a busy shared work space.
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Harry S. Truman

Date: 1947
Description: Harry S. Truman in the oval office standing behind his desk.
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Dr. Joseph Smith

Date: 1913
Description: Dr. Joseph Smith reads at his desk in his office in the Wisconsin Valley Trust Building.
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Old Grocer in his Office

Date: 06 21 1960
Description: William Behnke goes over bills in his office at the rear of his store, which was in business since July 12, 1899.
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Making First Dial Telephone Call in Mazomanie

Date: 02 06 1946
Description: Mazomanie Village President Theodore R. King, seated at a roll top desk, dials the first telephone call to be handled through the Wisconsin Telephone Compa...
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Hugh Flannery Receives $100 War Bond

Date: 01 29 1945
Description: With a backdrop of celebrity portrait photographs and stacks of coins on his desk, Hugh Flannery, manager of the Orpheum Theatre, is receiving a $100 War B...
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Telephone Switchboard

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Description: Mrs. Thompto and employee Ethel Clemens working at the telephone switchboard.
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Mrs. Glenn M. Wise, Wisconsin Secretary of State

Date: 08 1955
Description: Glenn M. Wise (Mrs. John Wise), Wisconsin's first woman Secretary of State, at her desk in the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Harry G. Marsh

Date: 11 04 1944
Description: Harry G. Marsh, passenger agent for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, seated at his desk. Mr. Marsh was responsible for troop movements to and from Trua...
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Telephone Operator for Hazan's Telephone Supermarket

Date: 1958
Description: Gertrude Martin, operator for Hazan's Telephone Supermarket, at her desk with a phone in her hand. Behind her a chalkboard displays a reminder to "suggest ...
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Art Director G.V. Johnson

Date: 12 30 1935
Description: Art Director G.V. Johnson, of International Harvester's Advertising Department in Chicago, sitting at his desk.
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Madison Soap Box Derby, Car Construction

Date: 06 15 1948
Description: Curlee Seals, Jr. discussing plans for his 1949 Soap Box Derby racer with three members of the Madison Junior Chamber of Commerce, Curlee's sponsor for the...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Officials

Date: 06 17 1949
Description: Group portrait of the officials for the 1949 Soap Box Derby. Left to right, seated: Sgt. Ed Roman, of the Marine recruiting station; Ralph Hult, president ...
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Man Sits at Desk in Western Union Office

Date: 1930
Description: Leon Lamoreux sits at his desk in the Western Union office at 21 West Main Street. (This building no longer exists.) He and his wife, Beatrice, later taugh...
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Man and Woman at Desk

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Description: A man is reading at a desk, while a woman writes on a pad of paper seated nearby in an office at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio).
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Men Reading Agricultural Education Material

Date: 1915
Description: Professor Perry Holden (right) and an unidentified man sitting at a desk and looking over promotional materials from International Harvester's Agricultural...
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Carl Stromberg

Date: 10 30 1953
Description: Portrait of Carl Stromberg, a Methodist minister newly appointed to First-University Methodist Church at 203 Wisconsin Avenue. His father, brother, and fou...
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John Lavine

Date: 12 15 1981
Description: John A. Lavine of Chippewa Falls, head of the Lavine Newspaper Group and publisher of several Wisconsin newspapers.
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Hazel Thoreson

Date: 01 12 1954
Description: Portrait of Hazel Thoreson, private secretary for Secretary of State Fred. R. Zimmerman.

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