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| Date: | 07 19 1928 |
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| Description: | View down street towards a man driving a McCormick-Deering tractor to install a telephone pole on a city block. Other men are standing at the front of the ... |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | View towards a truck used for installing telephone poles parked on a road. A large auger is attached to the front of the truck. The sign on the side of the... |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | View along side of dirt road towards men installing telephone poles with a large drill. A group of of children are sitting on a pile of wood watching near ... |
| Date: | 11 26 1918 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a large office, with a female switchboard operator sitting on the right. |
| Date: | 08 03 1931 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Telephone Co. switchboard, rear view. |
| Date: | 08 03 1931 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Telephone Co. switchboard, front view. |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | Men installing a telephone pole in a field. A truck is parked along a road behind them, and a large auger is attached to an apparatus at the front of the t... |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | Two men are using a large auger to dig a hole for installing telephone poles. A truck is parked nearby, used for installing the poles. The sign on the side... |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | View across road towards a truck parked on the side of the road. A large auger is hanging in front of the truck. Fields are in the background. |
| Date: | 08 09 1931 |
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| Description: | Electric switchboard at Dependent Children's Home. |
| Date: | 11 13 1952 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of open Norwec Transmitter. A telephone equipment photograph, taken for an REA calendar, published by Wisconsin Electric Cooperative, alterna... |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | View towards front of truck parked along a road, with an auger hanging off the front. A man is standing, (obscured) at the back of the truck. |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | View towards a truck with equipment for installing telephone poles. There is a large auger suspended from the back of the truck. Men are standing along the... |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | Two men are using a large auger to dig a hole for installing telephone poles. A truck is parked nearby, used for installing the poles. The sign on the side... |
| Date: | 06 28 1917 |
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| Description: | A man is driving a truck that has pulleys and a mechanism to mount telephone poles. There is a telephone pole mounted on a trailer behind the truck. |
| Date: | 03 01 1928 |
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| Description: | Telephone Co. linemen making installation on pole. A truck is parked nearby. |
| Date: | 03 16 1954 |
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| Description: | Single-family, one-story home for sale by Mohawk Realty in a newly built housing suburb. A telephone pole is standing behind the house on the left. There a... |
| Date: | 05 22 1954 |
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| Description: | Madison housing development at the corner of McKenna Boulevard and Gilbert Road in the Orchard Ridge neighborhood. Shows homes, sprawling backyards and tel... |
| Date: | 05 05 1954 |
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| Description: | 44th Annual Wisconsin Telephone Association convention held at the Hotel Loraine located at 119 W. Washington Avenue. Presenting at one of the panel discus... |
| Date: | 12 17 1942 |
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| Description: | View of a group of men and a woman. Some of the men are dressed in overalls and are using telephones in a bank of telephone booths at Truax Army Air Field.... |
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