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Work Relief Sewing Project

Date: 01 11 1935
Description: Several women are sitting at sewing machines. Caption reads: "Milwaukee, Wis Jan 11, 1935. Women making new and repairing old clothing for relief families....
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Switchboard Operator

Date: 01 23 1958
Description: Female telephone switchboard operator at work.
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Production Line Worker

Date: 1935
Description: A woman factory worker sorting parts at Globe Union Manufacturing Company, maker of batteries, radio apparatus, and spark plugs.
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Employee Working on a Computer

Date: 08 28 1984
Description: Mary Beaudry, a temporary employee at International Business Machines, works on word-processing and computer equipment.
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Stenographers

Date: 1894
Description: Stenographers at the law firm of Winkler, Flanders, Smith, Bottum, & Vilas.
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Picketing Gimbel's

Date: 03 15 1955
Description: Women from Pittsburgh AFL Retail Clerks' Union Local 1365 picket at the Milwaukee store.
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Office Baby

Date: 05 19 1965
Description: Mother brings baby to secretarial job.
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Hillary Protesters Outside the Democratic Presidential Debates

Date: 02 11 2016
Description: A group of anti-Hillary protesters posing outdoors for journalists and photographers with their handmade signs. In the foreground a woman stands behind a c...
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Evening Wisconsin Newspaper Staff

Date: 1916
Description: Staff of the "Evening Wisconsin" newspaper. Left to right: 1) Alvin Steinkopf, 2) Jessica Knowles, 3) John R. Wolf, and 4) Arthur Dering.
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Associated Press' Scott Bauer

Date: 02 11 2016
Description: A row of journalists are sitting at a long table in the spin room as they work on their computers or watch the debate. Among them is Scott Bauer on the far...
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St. Joseph's Computer

Date: 12 14 1967
Description: A secretary in the pathology department at St. Joseph's Hospital working at a new computer.
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Photography Students in the Studio

Date: 11 14 1961
Description: Students work in a studio on their individual projects for a photography class at the Milwaukee Institute of Technology.
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Interviewing Martha Laning

Date: 02 11 2016
Description: A Fox 6 News reporter is interviewing Wisconsin Democratic Chair Martha Laning in the spin room at the Democratic presidential debate.
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Milwaukee Women's Suffrage Office

Date: 06 1912
Description: Two women seated at desks with typewriters in an office. A calendar on the wall indicates it is June 1912. Another poster advertises speakers in support of...
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Jessica Arp

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: View looking down at journalist Jessica Arp of WISC-TV, who is leaning over a table working on her computer during the Republican presidential debates. Two...
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CBS News Correspondent Nancy Cordes

Date: 02 11 2016
Description: CBS News Correspondent Nancy Cordes is sitting behind a table with her computer while watching the debate in the media filing center. Other journalists are...
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Bobby Jindal

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: Louisiana Governor Piyush "Bobby" Jindal talking to the media at the Republican presidential debate. Microphones and cameras surround him.
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Interviewing Carly Fiorina

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: Carly Fiorina sitting on a stage as she is being interviewed by a reporter.
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Interviewing Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch

Date: 02 11 2016
Description: Three journalists interviewing Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch in the spin room of the Democratic presidential debates.
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Interviewing Lena C. Taylor

Date: 11 10 2015
Description: Ali Velshi interviewing Wisconsin State Senator (4th District) Lena Taylor as a camera operator is filming them. They are standing in the press staging are...

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