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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Women office workers file and take phone calls in a busy shared work space. |
| 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 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Twin sisters Patricia (left) and Nancy Coughlin in matching formal dresses. They are posing indoors and are wearing matching chokers around their necks and... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Posed view of a patient room in the recently constructed Methodist Hospital, showing a nurse on the telephone near a bed, and a doctor and elderly patient ... |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Photographic holiday card of an African American family posed over "Merry Christmas" wrapping paper in the background. Holly and bells appear overhead. Eac... |
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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 ... |
| Date: | 05 24 1957 |
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| Description: | Sue Collins jots down scores she hears transmitted by the new recorder machine as radio station WIBA's automatic telephone system is in operation for the f... |
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| Description: | Photograph of Eydie V. Watts, member of the Milwaukee City Civil Service Commssion. Ms. Watts sits at her desk in an office. She is wearing a dress or blou... |
| Date: | 2012 |
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| Description: | Trixie, a young woman texting while standing on the sidewalk on 7th Street. She is wearing eyeglasses, a houndstooth patterned coat with jeans, and sheepsk... |
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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... |
| Date: | 03 31 1934 |
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| Description: | Indoor flash-light portrait of Jennie Krueger Bruetzman and Edgar Krueger playing checkers at the table on their 35th birthday. A telephone is mounted on t... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Florentina and Alexander Krueger sitting at either end of the dining room table. A tablecloth and a large potted plant are on the table. |
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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... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Street scene with a group of people gathered in front of a store with a public telephone. Caption reads: "Fish Creek, Wis." |
| Date: | 04 09 1970 |
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| Description: | Two women on the left are sitting at tables and talking into telephones. On the right are large show windows, and a bus and passers-by are visible through ... |
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