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| Date: | 08 15 1929 |
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| Description: | Telephone line repairmen preparing to work on a residential line. One is climbing a ladder and the other is setting up a soldering unit. Their Internationa... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View from road of the Buena Vista House. There is a utility pole in front with many wires attached. This Greek revival inn was erected in 1843 by Samuel R.... |
| Date: | 08 1924 |
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| 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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| Description: | A view of south Sixth Avenue, looking down hill. Houses line both sides of the street, with one tree visible in the foreground and multiple trees lining bo... |
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| Description: | A view of Main Street. Houses line both sides of the street, as do trees, which partially obscure the houses. Telephone and/or electric lines run parallel ... |
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| Description: | A view of Washington Street. Trees line the street, as do telephone and/or electric lines. A carriage is parked on the right side of the street, in the mid... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Cattle grazing amidst the trees. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Marie McCaddin, New York branch telephone operator." Overhead view of woman sitting at a switchboard. |
| Date: | 06 1967 |
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| Description: | Composite panoramic view of the north side of the 500 block of State Street. Business include: The Towers (student apartments), Pantorium Dry Cleaners, The... |
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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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| Description: | View across unpaved street towards two men and two women posing standing on the porch of a wooden storefront building. Three wagons and a horse are on the ... |
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| Description: | View towards two men and two women posing standing on the porch of a wooden store building on a city street, with three wagons and a horse on the right. Lo... |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of two men displaying two teams of two horses which are hitched to buggies in front of a post office building. A group of people are... |
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| Description: | Ektochrome postcard of a roadside motel, with white fencing along the entrance. There is a phone booth at the edge of the parking lot. Caption reads: "Pack... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A man with a hammer is working at the top of a telephone pole as a second man is watching from the ground. There is a third man near a man on another pole ... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Two men outdoors with an emergency telephone. The men appear to be on top of a truck or other type of vehicle. Behind them are power lines and trees. |
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