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CUNA Office

Date: 02 04 1947
Description: Man and woman reviewing a document in an office, with three women working in the background at CUNA (Credit Union National Association).
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Woman Examining Tax Rolls

Date: 02 01 1952
Description: A woman sits on a table in an office, possibly examining tax rolls.
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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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Two Women in Office

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Description: Bundled women seated in front of a roll-top office desk, possibly the office of John Forbes over the old Fire Hall. A typewriter on the table and a telepho...
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State Office Building Interior

Date: 03 11 1942
Description: Women office workers in "one of the many extra offices needed to handle the rush for birth certificates" in the Wisconsin State Office Building (Capitol An...
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Woman Tries to Beat the Heat with Electric Fan

Date: 09 02 1960
Description: An unknown woman sits in front of several electric fans on a hot summer day.
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Archivist Jesse Boell

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Description: Wisconsin Historical Society archivist Jesse Boell, later the archivist of the University of Wisconsin, seen in his office on the third floor of the Histor...
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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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Three Women in Office

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Description: Three women seated in front of a roll-top office desk, possibly the office of John Forbes over the old Fire Hall. A covered typewriter on the table and a t...
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Woman Working in Insurance Office

Date: 11 19 1927
Description: Young woman sitting at a typewriter, presumably a staff employee, in the office of the Indiana Liberty Mutual Insurance Company.
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Three Women at Western Union Office

Date: 04 1930
Description: Three women standing at the entrance of the Western Union branch office at 650 State Street. The woman in the middle is Beatrice Lamoreux. She and her husb...
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Annual League of Women Voters Fund Drive

Date: 09 22 1965
Description: William B. Manchester, public relations director for Harry S. Manchester, Inc., is shown "checking the facts" in a brochure before contributing to the annu...
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State School for Girls

Date: 1956
Description: A teenage girl is sitting in a chair in the right foreground in front of a desk. A woman is sitting behind the desk facing her. Caption reads: "Oregon, Wis...
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Governor La Follette Buying a "Buddy Poppy"

Date: 03 25 1932
Description: Governor Philip F. La Follette buying a "buddy poppy" from two women in behalf of the American Legion. The governor is standing in his Wisconsin State Cap...
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Federation Building Library

Date: 03 25 1948
Description: Three women clerks sitting at desks in the library in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Building, 448 West Washington Avenue...
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Sid and Woman Smoking in Office

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Description: Sid and a woman sitting and smoking in an office. Sid is sitting in a chair wearing an overcoat. His face is obscured by the smoke he is exhaling. The woma...
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American Optical Company

Date: 03 15 1954
Description: Slightly elevated view of three women in the order department at the American Optical Company, located on 429 State Street. Two women are standing at a cou...
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Switchboard Operators at the Telephone Exchange Office

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Description: Indoor group portrait of an office space. with two women posing sitting at a telephone switchboard, and another woman posing standing. The woman standing i...
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Community War Chest Office

Date: 1945
Description: Three women work in the Community War Chest office. One of the women is typing and one is about to use the telephone. A sign on the wall behind the women r...
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Group Portrait in the Governor's Office

Date: 12 23 1920
Description: Members of the Department of State in the Governor's office at the Wisconsin State Capitol. Seated, in the middle, is Secretary Fred R. Zimmerman.

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