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| Date: | October 1942 |
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| Description: | Governor Julius P. Heil (1876-1949) speaks to Shawano High School students and others during his gubernatorial re-election campaign. He arrived during the... |
| Date: | December 1905 |
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| Description: | Edgar and Jennie Krueger are sitting on the front porch of the Krueger home with an Edison Standard phonograph sitting on a chair between them. Two Edison... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Highlander Folk School students and directors standing in a line, possibly singing together, at the San Padeo workshop. Third from left, Myles Horton, Will... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Candid shot of Fred Coe, producer of "Playwrights '56", sitting at his production board. |
| Date: | September 27 1934 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin Professor Miles L. Hanley watching coeds Laura Severson and Theressa Fein, while they are working on transcriptions for a linguisti... |
| Date: | April 22 1967 |
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| Description: | Two junior high students work on a project that requires making a vocal recording. |
| Date: | August 12 1958 |
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| Description: | Urbane gentleman shows off his sophisticated high fidelity wall system with reel-to-reel tape deck, reels of tape, and record albums. |
| Date: | September 26 1967 |
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| Description: | Young children listen to a story through earphones as a teacher's aid looks on. |
| Date: | February 18 1959 |
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| Description: | Language teachers listen to foreign languages on tape decks at an institute for public school language teachers at Mount Mary College. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | School children dancing in a circle to music from a Victrola phonograph as women look on. The children are outdoors, possibly in a rural schoolyard. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Miss Streeter leading school children in the "shoemaker's song". Another woman stands near a Victrola. The children are outdoors under trees. Possibly in a... |
| Date: | February 25 1939 |
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| Description: | Parkway Theatre, 6-10 W. Mifflin Street, side view of speaker. |
| Date: | June 02 1937 |
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| Description: | McCoy's Ice Cream Parlor, 507 State Street, showing booths and jukebox. |
| Date: | March 03 1937 |
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| Description: | John P. Reed's Sound Service car with two loud speaker horns and a sign on top. The automobile is a Plymouth provided by Gillespie Blumer of Madison. |
| Date: | February 11 1935 |
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| Description: | Boys at Emerson School are listening intently to earphones and writing on notebooks during a hearing test. |
| Date: | January 20 1934 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of three women and two men who are in the Badger theater group in Mt. Horeb participating in the Dane County rural drama tournament. Left to... |
| Date: | April 03 1933 |
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| Description: | "Sound car" with loud speakers on the front hood, and a large sign on top that reads: "Norge, Madison Radio & Refrigerator Co., Borgrud Hardware Co., Ander... |
| Date: | April 29 1931 |
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| Description: | Ben Park, sitting in a chair, is talking to all the classrooms in Lapham school through the radio microphone in the office of Shirley D. Almy, principal. T... |
| Date: | May 03 1931 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Ernest Kalar, his wife, and three children. There is a Victrola phonograph on a table in the background on the left. |
| Date: | December 20 1930 |
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| Description: | Informal portrait of Jerome C. and May Holt sitting in rockers in their living room at 1922 Madison Street. |
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