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| Date: | 08 15 1929 |
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| Description: | A crew of telephone line repairmen working on a rural line with their International truck parked below them. An IH truck, with storage compartments sitting... |
| 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: | 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: | 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 13 1946 |
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| Description: | Telephone switchboard being rebuilt at the Madison Exchange of the Wisconsin Telephone Company. |
| Date: | 08 14 1946 |
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| Description: | Eleven male workers and one supervisor making telephone switchboard cables in the basement of the Wisconsin Telephone Company building. |
| Date: | 08 14 1946 |
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| Description: | Seven workers (two peeking through from behind the switchboard) and one supervisor rebuilding the telephone toll switchboard at the Wisconsin Telephone Com... |
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| Description: | Mrs. Thompto and employee Ethel Clemens working at the telephone switchboard. |
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| Description: | Storage room for telephones to be installed. |
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| Description: | Workmen erecting a telephone pole with a horse team. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | National telephone strike, showing one operator in the left half of east switchboard room of Wisconsin Telephone Company, 16 South Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 04 07 1947 |
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| Description: | During the national telephone strike, one operator is present in the east switchboard room at Wisconsin Telephone Company, 16 South Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 11 18 1949 |
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| Description: | Marjorie White of 25 East Dayton Street wearing a fur coat and head scarf while using what is alleged to be the first 24-hour, outdoor-accessible pay phone... |
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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... |
| Date: | 02 07 1956 |
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| Description: | Mary Redlich is a canvass supervisor for the Wisconsin Telephone Company. Her husband, Glenn Redlich, is a senior in the School of Commerce at the Universi... |
| Date: | 11 15 1957 |
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| Description: | The original caption states: "the Wisconsin Telephone Co.'s one-millionth telephone now in service was presented to Gov. Vernon W. Thomson by Charles E. Wa... |
| 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: | 03 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Stanley E. Bennett, a First Wisconsin National Bank cashier, listens to the handset while John T. Frymark, a Wisconsin Telephone Company central office for... |
| 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... |
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