Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Exterior of Washburn Observatory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, showing telephone wires. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | A teenager sitting on a bed talking on the telephone. |
Date: | 05 05 1932 |
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Description: | The U.S. airmail radio operator at Royal Airport in Madison. During the 1920s Madison had two airports: the Madison Airport (aka the North Street Airport) ... |
Date: | 02 06 1946 |
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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... |
Date: | 02 06 1946 |
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Description: | Charles T. Davies, Mazomanie representative of the Wisconsin Telephone Company, receives the first dial telephone call to be handled through the Wisconsin ... |
Date: | 10 16 1945 |
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Description: | Slightly elevated view of five women workers in an Oscar Mayer Company test kitchen and laboratory. A low wall is separating two women working at desks on ... |
Date: | 01 29 1945 |
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Description: | With a backdrop of celebrity portrait photographs and stacks of coins on his desk, Hugh Flannery, manager of the Orpheum Theatre, is receiving a $100 War B... |
Date: | 06 21 1944 |
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Description: | WIBU Radio Station, 114 North Carroll Street, advertising office, showing two men sitting at desks. |
Date: | 01 19 1944 |
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Description: | A telephone operator wearing a headset sits in front of a switchboard at the Oscar Mayer Co. |
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.... |
Date: | 12 17 1942 |
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Description: | Men, some of whom are dressed in overalls, make phone calls in a bank of telephone booths at Truax Army Air Field in the recreation hall and switchboard ar... |
Date: | 01 1942 |
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Description: | Man and woman consider buying Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps from a clerk at a basement CUNA Credit Union National Association office. |
Date: | 05 03 1939 |
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Description: | Governor Julius P. Heil sitting at his desk signing a bill, with four men looking on from behind. |
Date: | 02 17 1938 |
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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... |
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: | 12 05 1935 |
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Description: | Roy F. Bergengren, managing director of CUNA (Credit Union National Association), sitting behind his desk in his office at Raiffeisen House, 142 East Gilma... |
Date: | 09 26 1935 |
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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... |
Date: | 11 02 1933 |
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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... |
Date: | 08 02 1933 |
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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. |
Date: | 04 30 1933 |
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Description: | Sinaiko Brothers Oil Co. filling station, at 702 Regent Street, showing wrecked safe damaged by thieves in robbery. |
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