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Milwaukee Exchange

Date: 1883
Description: Women switchboard operators at the sole Milwaukee telephone exchange.
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Telephone Switchboard and Operators

Date: 1920
Description: Women work on nine-place telephone switchboard that served 1,145 single-line flat-rate telephones originating 10 calls per day, on average.
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Telephone Operators Party

Date: 12 20 1941
Description: Group portrait of telephone operators at a party.
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Dane County Court House "Telephone Girls"

Date: 11 02 1933
Description: Dane County Court House "telephone girls" at the new switchboard. Sitting at the switchboard is Madge Albright, and in the rear is Bernadine Plachy and Mar...
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Telephone Exchange Switchboard

Date: 08 14 1946
Description: Five men are rebuilding the "Fairchild" exchange switchboard at the Wisconsin Telephone Company building. Four women telephone operators in the background ...
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Telephone Switchboard

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Description: Mrs. Thompto and employee Ethel Clemens working at the telephone switchboard.
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Pool Players, Wisconsin Telephone Company Lounge

Date: 03 09 1954
Description: Five men employees play pool in the Pioneer Lounge, Wisconsin Telephone Company, 122 West Main Street, with four women observing.
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Wisconsin Telephone Company Employees

Date: 02 14 1949
Description: Group portrait of Wisconsin Telephone Company employees taken at the Blue Room, Park Hotel, 22 South Carroll Street.
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Wisconsin Telephone Company Employees

Date: 03 09 1954
Description: Group portrait of officers of the employee club sitting around game tables in the Pioneer Room at the Wisconsin Telephone Company, 122 West Main Street.
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Wisconsin Telephone Company Employee's Picnic

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Description: Women posing for a group portrait at the Wisconsin Telephone Company Employees' Picnic. Women in the front row are holding open parasols in front of them, ...
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Large Group at Company Picnic

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Description: The Wisconsin Telephone Company Employees' Picnic (written on a large banner held up by the front line of people). People in the back of the crowd are hold...
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Farmers' New Era Telephone Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Farmers' New Era Telephone Company of Hebron, Illinois, with a female switchboard operator wearing headphones sitting near a window with ...
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Kellogg 350 Drop Switchboard

Date: 09 1921
Description: Two woman operators posed seated at the Kellogg 350 drop switchboard of the telephone exchange. Calendar on the wall shows a date of September 1921.
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Telephone Exchange in Laona

Date: 1920
Description: "This picture is of the first telephone exchange that I established in Laona. The girl standing is my youngest daughter. This exchange is still operated in...
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Wisconsin Telephone Company Employees

Date: 01 05 1954
Description: Katherine Quilliam (left), chief operator of unit No. 1 at the Madison office of the Wisconsin Telephone Company, interviews Mrs. Viola Cook for a position...

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