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| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | Man using a telephone mounted to an interior wall. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department. It was used to... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Dr. Joseph Smith reads at his desk in his office in the Wisconsin Valley Trust Building. |
| Date: | 09 21 1928 |
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| Description: | Loraine Hotel lobby with local business directory next to registration desk, male customer at registration counter and two clerks in front of Western Union... |
| Date: | 05 1896 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 26 1935 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 02 24 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Alice Ferguson, director of home service for Madison Gas and Electric Company, will be the judge for the "Wisconsin State Journal's" fourth and final ... |
| Date: | 06 1967 |
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| Description: | Composite panoramic view of the south side of the 300 block of State Street. Businesses include: Montgomery Ward (on North Henry Street), Colonial Shoppe E... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Wm. Ewig Company, an insurance company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with full-color depictions of a scene with three traffic accidents involv... |
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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: | 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... |
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| Description: | Color postcard of a female telephone operator at an 1890s era switchboard. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | 1893 calendar, with the months of August & September. Features an illustration of a woman holding a light. Around her are books, telescope, and other objec... |
| 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: | 09 08 2014 |
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| Description: | The last week of business at the College Barber Shop. Interior details include prices for haircuts, shaves, and trims, and framed photographs and other ite... |
| Date: | 01 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Katherine Quilliam (left), chief operator of unit No. 1 at the Madison office of the Wisconsin Telephone Company, interviews Mrs. Viola Cook for a position... |
| Date: | 06 08 1954 |
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| Description: | A brass plaque shaped like a shield with the following inscription: "For Meritorious Service - E. B. Samp President - Wisconsin State Telephone Association... |
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