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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Josie Jepson (or Jepsen) at the telephone switchboard on Washington Island. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Women switchboard operators at the sole Milwaukee telephone exchange. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Women work on nine-place telephone switchboard that served 1,145 single-line flat-rate telephones originating 10 calls per day, on average. |
| Date: | 06 25 1937 |
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| Description: | Women switchboard operators, wearing headsets with microphones at the Wisconsin Telephone Company, located at 17 S. Fairchild Street. There are rotary dire... |
| Date: | 08 14 1946 |
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| Description: | Eleven male workers and one supervisor making telephone switchboard cables in the basement of the Wisconsin Telephone Company building. |
| Date: | 08 14 1946 |
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| 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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| Description: | Mrs. Thompto and employee Ethel Clemens working at the telephone switchboard. |
| Date: | 03 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Five men employees play pool in the Pioneer Lounge, Wisconsin Telephone Company, 122 West Main Street, with four women observing. |
| Date: | 03 09 1954 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 09 30 1958 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of five men representing regional electic and telephone cooperatives attending a meeting at the Edgewater Hotel. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Hager City Telephone Company of Hager City, Wisconsin, with a line of telephone poles and wires connecting a man in a business suit sitti... |
| Date: | 09 1921 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 02 07 1956 |
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| Description: | Mary Redlich is a canvass supervisor for the Wisconsin Telephone Company. Her husband, Glenn Redlich, is a senior in the School of Commerce at the Universi... |
| Date: | 11 15 1957 |
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| Description: | The original caption states: "the Wisconsin Telephone Co.'s one-millionth telephone now in service was presented to Gov. Vernon W. Thomson by Charles E. Wa... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Dane County Telephone Co. horse-drawn service and installation wagon. The Wisconsin State Capitol is in the background. “Dad” Schroeder and Oscar Quale are... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of telephone company workmen erecting telephone pole with a horse-drawn derrick. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 01 1928 |
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| Description: | Telephone Co. linemen making installation on pole. A truck is parked nearby. |
| Date: | 01 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Operator Pat Stephenson (left) receives instruction from Mrs. Vivian Meicher, a supervisor at the Wisconsin Telephone Company, who is wearing a headset. Th... |
| Date: | 01 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Charles N. Goulet, Wisconsin Telephone Company manager, discusses operations with assistant manager, Vera Kloppmann. They sit at a broad desk that has a ro... |
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