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Switchboard Operator

Date: 01 23 1958
Description: Female telephone switchboard operator at work.
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Making First Dial Telephone Call in Mazomanie

Date: 02 06 1946
Description: Mazomanie Village President Theodore R. King, seated at a roll top desk, dials the first telephone call to be handled through the Wisconsin Telephone Compa...
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Receiving First Dial Telephone Call in Mazomanie

Date: 02 06 1946
Description: Charles T. Davies, Mazomanie representative of the Wisconsin Telephone Company, receives the first dial telephone call to be handled through the Wisconsin ...
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Oscar Mayer and Co. Telephone Operator

Date: 01 19 1944
Description: A telephone operator wearing a headset sits in front of a switchboard at the Oscar Mayer Co.
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Secretary Using Telephone

Date: 02 17 1938
Description: Secretary using the telephone at the Groves School for Secretaries, with notepad, telephone and intercom. There is a classroom in the background, seen thro...
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Rev. Edwin O. Kennedy

Date: 09 26 1935
Description: Rev. Edwin O. Kennedy sitting at a desk writing a letter, Christ Presbyterian Church, 124 Wisconsin Avenue. There is a telephone on the desk, and books are...
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Samuel E. Capron Using Telephone

Date: 08 02 1933
Description: 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.
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Wrecked Safe

Date: 04 30 1933
Description: Sinaiko Brothers Oil Co. filling station, at 702 Regent Street, showing wrecked safe damaged by thieves in robbery.
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Grace Putnam

Date: 12 26 1931
Description: Grace Putnam, executive secretary of the Madison Woman's Club, in the Woman's Building, 240 W. Gilman street.
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WIBA Radio Control Room

Date: 12 05 1930
Description: Mr. Hagen sitting at master control in the WIBA control room.
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Patrolman Peterson

Date: 06 08 1930
Description: Patrolman Peterson in uniform, sitting at a telephone table.
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Hinman House Interior

Date: 09 28 1928
Description: Albert Hinman Residence, 1 Vista Road. View from living room into dining room through arch, showing wall telephone on the left.
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Hinman House, Stairway Landing

Date: 09 01 1928
Description: Albert Hinman Residence, 1 Vista Road, showing the stairway landing.
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Wisconsin General Hospital Interview of Patient

Date: 05 26 1947
Description: Patient being interviewed by nurse, at the State of Wisconsin General Hospital, 1300 University Avenue. For the State Medical Board of Health.
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Office Workers

Date: 1934
Description: A woman at an office desk reads a pamphlet entitled, "What is Quality in a Motor Truck?" A male worker speaks on the telephone in the background. The two m...
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Tri-State Ice Cream Co. General Manager

Date: 03 16 1936
Description: Original caption reads: "Ralph W. Page, G.M. [of] Tri-State Ice Cream Co. Taken by Madison Branch House."
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Sound Booth Operator

Date: 1931
Description: The mixer in a sound booth talks to actor Ramon Novarro and director Jacques Feyder as they record dialogue for the film "Son of India."
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Assembly Floor

Date: 1967
Description: Democratic leadership on the Wisconsin Assembly floor: left to right: Robert T. Huber, minority leader; David R. Obey, assistant minority leader, and Norma...
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Irna Phillips and Rose Cooperman

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Description: Irna Phillips, with her friend and secretary Rose Cooperman. Irna is holding papers and smoking a cigarette. Rose is sitting in the background writing.
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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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