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Melvina Capron and her Radio
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Melvina (Mrs. Samuel) Capron, 222 N. Bassett Street, listening to a radio and reenacting the night in 1923 when she heard that President Warren G. Harding had died.
August 2, 1933
McVicar, Angus Boyd, 1903-1964
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Radio Display
October 29, 1930
Display of radios and furniture in the Montgomery Ward store, 102 North Hamilton Street.
Wisconsin Electric Cooperative Store, Radio Department
November 27, 1943
Interior of Wisconsin Electric Cooperative Store, in Wisconsin Union Transfer Building, 155-303 West Wilson Street, showing lamps, mirrors and radios.
Emerson School Children
October 1, 1931
Emerson School children standing by a radio on a table, listening to a broadcast of "The Hare and the Lion," 2421 East Johnson Street.
Emerson School Classroom
October 1, 1931
Emerson School children and teacher listen to a radio broadcast from a radio set up in front of the blackboard in the classroom at 2421 East Johnson Street.
WIBA Radio Transmitter
November 4, 1933
Everett H. Marshall stands next to a radio transmitter at the WIBA transmitter station, 111 King Street.
Samuel E. Capron Using Telephone
August 2, 1933
Samuel E. Capron, using a telephone while re-enacting the call he made to The Capital Times to announce Pres. Warren G. Harding's death in 1923.
