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| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A man, possibly John Forbes, working at a roll-top desk in his office over the old Fire Hall. A dog is sitting on a chair in the lower left. Books on the s... |
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| Description: | Three women seated in front of a roll-top office desk, possibly the office of John Forbes over the old Fire Hall. A covered typewriter on the table and a t... |
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| Description: | Storage room for telephones to be installed. |
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| Description: | Kellogg box telephone in front of a painted backdrop. Patented November 26, 1901. |
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| Description: | Kellogg box telephone in front of a painted backdrop. Patented November 26, 1901. |
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| Description: | Workmen erecting a telephone pole with a horse team. |
| Date: | 06 28 1945 |
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| Description: | Vice-Admiral Marc A. Mitscher sitting at the dining room table waiting for breakfast to be served to him, his wife Frances Smalley Mitscher (left), and mot... |
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| Description: | Three men testing the Bell System's Telstar experimental communications satellite at the Bell Telephone Laboratories before being sent to Cape Canaveral, F... |
| 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. |
| Date: | 10 10 1946 |
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| Description: | Man (probably R.O. Champeau, owner and operator of the Rocket Oil Company, 204 South Paterson Street), writing up an order for a customer who is seated to ... |
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| Description: | Kermit Bloomgarden at his desk talking on the telephone. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Exterior of International Harvester's General Office for Great Britain. The building included a showroom, service station, and parts and machine warehouse.... |
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| Description: | Men and women working at desks in the Hamburg, Germany, office of the International Harvester Company. |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | Men working along a road with a modified McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor with attached trailor and post hole digging rig. The men work for Shipp... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Gertrude Martin, operator for Hazan's Telephone Supermarket, at her desk with a phone in her hand. Behind her a chalkboard displays a reminder to "suggest ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Betty Bakalaya, operator for Hazan's Telephone Supermarket, takes an order over the phone. Her coworkers are in the background. |
| 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 26 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 09 10 1952 |
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| Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin, with supporters in his hometown of Appleton, hearing the news of his landslide victory over his Republican Party c... |
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