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Storage Room for Telephones

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Description: Storage room for telephones to be installed.
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Kellogg Box Telephone

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Description: Kellogg box telephone in front of a painted backdrop. Patented November 26, 1901.
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Kellogg Box Telephone

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Description: Kellogg box telephone in front of a painted backdrop. Patented November 26, 1901.
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Workmen Installing Telephone Poles

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Description: Workmen erecting a telephone pole with a horse team.
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Vice-Admiral Marc Mitscher

Date: 06 28 1945
Description: Vice-Admiral Marc A. Mitscher sitting at the dining room table waiting for breakfast to be served to him, his wife Frances Smalley Mitscher (left), and mot...
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Two Cars Pass on Dixie Highway

Date: 08 1924
Description: Trees and electric power lines are along a road. There are two automobiles being driven in opposite directions on Dixie Highway.
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Rocket Oil Company

Date: 10 10 1946
Description: Man (probably R.O. Champeau, owner and operator of the Rocket Oil Company, 204 South Paterson Street), writing up an order for a customer who is seated to ...
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Kermit Bloomgarden on the Telephone

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Description: Kermit Bloomgarden at his desk talking on the telephone.
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Great Britain Office of International Harvester

Date: 1943
Description: Exterior of International Harvester's General Office for Great Britain. The building included a showroom, service station, and parts and machine warehouse....
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International Harvester Hamburg Office

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Description: Men and women working at desks in the Hamburg, Germany, office of the International Harvester Company.
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Men Install Pole with Modified 10-20 Industrial Tractor

Date: 08 09 1927
Description: Men working along a road with a modified McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor with attached trailor and post hole digging rig. The men work for Shipp...
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Telephone Operator for Hazan's Telephone Supermarket

Date: 1958
Description: Gertrude Martin, operator for Hazan's Telephone Supermarket, at her desk with a phone in her hand. Behind her a chalkboard displays a reminder to "suggest ...
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Operator for Hazan's Telephone Supermarket

Date: 1958
Description: Betty Bakalaya, operator for Hazan's Telephone Supermarket, takes an order over the phone. Her coworkers are in the background.
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National Telephone Strike

Date: 1947
Description: National telephone strike, showing one operator in the left half of east switchboard room of Wisconsin Telephone Company, 16 South Carroll Street.
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National Telephone Strike

Date: 04 07 1947
Description: During the national telephone strike, one operator is present in the east switchboard room at Wisconsin Telephone Company, 16 South Carroll Street.
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Offices at Osborne Works

Date: 11 26 1918
Description: Offices at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as "Auburn Works"). The offices are empty except for a lone switchboard operator. A sign ha...
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McCarthy as Primary Winner

Date: 09 10 1952
Description: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin, with supporters in his hometown of Appleton, hearing the news of his landslide victory over his Republican Party c...
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Wisconsin State Journal Editorial Room

Date: 05 08 1947
Description: Editorial staff of the Wisconsin State Journal gathered around a table. L to R: Harold McClelland, State Editor; (sitting) Lawrence Fitzpatrick, Cit...
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Phoning for Ike and Dick

Date: 11 1952
Description: Phone bank of Madison supporters for the Republican Presidential ticket: Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon.
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Construction Worker Talking on Telephone

Date: 1969
Description: Construction worker talking in a telephone booth.

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