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Switchboard Operator

Date: 01 23 1958
Description: Female telephone switchboard operator at work.
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May I Use the Phone?

Date: 1950
Description: Two teenage girls are both interested in talking on the telephone.
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Dr. Joseph Smith

Date: 1913
Description: Dr. Joseph Smith reads at his desk in his office in the Wisconsin Valley Trust Building.
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Men Making Telephone Switchboard Cables

Date: 08 14 1946
Description: Eleven male workers and one supervisor making telephone switchboard cables in the basement of the Wisconsin Telephone Company building.
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Wisconsin State Capitol Interior — Office of SHSW Librarian

Date: 05 1896
Description: The office of Historical Society Librarian Isaac Bradley in the South Wing of the third Wisconsin State Capitol. Bradley, who joined the Society staff in 1...
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Telephone Switchboard

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Description: Mrs. Thompto and employee Ethel Clemens working at the telephone switchboard.
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Offices at Osborne Works

Date: 11 26 1918
Description: Offices at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as "Auburn Works"). The offices are empty except for a lone switchboard operator. A sign ha...
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On Time Transfer Company Offices

Date: 01 26 1935
Description: W.R. Boquet and A.W. Boquet sit together at a desk in the On Time Transfer Company office while Mrs. Erma Boquet looks on from the background.
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Governor's Suite in Edgewater Hotel

Date: 04 26 1948
Description: View of the bedroom of the Governor's Suite in the new Edgewater Hotel, 666 Wisconsin Avenue. The room is decorated in restful browns and beiges, accented ...
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Office at the Basswood, Long Lake

Date: 08 1926
Description: A man works at the front desk at the lobby of the Basswood resort in Long Lake. The room features a table and chairs, stained glass windows, a calendar, an...
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Switchboard Operators at the Telephone Exchange Office

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Description: Indoor group portrait of an office space. with two women posing sitting at a telephone switchboard, and another woman posing standing. The woman standing i...
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Switchboard Operators

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Description: Indoor portrait of an office space with two women posing sitting at a telephone switchboard. Above the switchboard is a clock. There is a window on the lef...
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Telephone Exchange in Laona

Date: 1920
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...
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Fire Dispatchers Room

Date: 03 09 1965
Description: Dispatcher Sgt. L.E. Odegaard sitting at a switchboard surrounded by newly installed dispatching equipment. Odegaard is on the second floor of No. 3 statio...

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