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Manchester's Department Store at Christmas

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Description: Santa Claus talks on a telephone at a Christmas display at Manchester's Department Store.
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O.C. Harris

Date: 08 11 1944
Description: O.C. Harris talking on the telephone in the office of his business, which is the O.C. Harris Company, 1217 East Broadway, Dane County's only twenty-four ho...
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American Association of University Women Tea

Date: 01 19 1948
Description: Shown at the American Association of University Women tea and dinner, from the left: Dr. Althea Kratz Hottel, national president and dean of women at the U...
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Wisconsin State Journal Former Employee

Date: 02 25 1948
Description: Mrs. Joseph (Betty Pruett) Farrington, former police reporter, recalls work days with Russell B. Pyre, current reporter. She was a police reporter from 191...
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Madison Altrusa Club

Date: 02 14 1949
Description: Altrusa Club members preparing for a benefit program for the club's scholarship and hospital fund, at which Kathryn Turney Garten will give a book review. ...
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New Police Telephone Switchboard

Date: 09 06 1949
Description: A Madison police officer at the new police telephone switchboard at the police station, 14 South Webster Street.
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First Official Dial Telephone Call in Madison

Date: 09 30 1949
Description: Shorewood Hills fire chief Chris Bertelsen receives the first official dial call on Madison's new 100 percent dial phone service. The sign on the wall abov...
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Telephone Survey About Cancer

Date: 03 14 1958
Description: Members of the Dane County Medical Society, the Methodist Hospital Nurses' Alumnae Association, and the Dane County Unit of the American Cancer Society pre...
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Hunters' Gun Safety Instruction

Date: 11 1953
Description: Jerry Teesdale, a member of the Winnequah Gun Club, keeps in phone contact with men manning the targets during a gun safety session for hunters.

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