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| 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: | 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... |
| Date: | 04 13 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Telephone Company, 122 West Main Street, showing an antenna on top of the building for use with mobile telephone service. |
| Date: | 04 13 1948 |
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| Description: | Ford "Woody" station wagon test car with antenna for mobile telephone, on West Washington Avenue in front of the Grace Episcopal Church. Also included in t... |
| 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... |
| 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: | 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: | 01 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Operator Pat Stephenson (left) receives instruction from Mrs. Vivian Meicher, a supervisor at the Wisconsin Telephone Company, who is wearing a headset. Th... |
| Date: | 01 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Charles N. Goulet, Wisconsin Telephone Company manager, discusses operations with assistant manager, Vera Kloppmann. They sit at a broad desk that has a ro... |
| Date: | 01 05 1954 |
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| Description: | A group of people working at desks. One of these operators responds when someone dials for information. Most of their work is to provide telephone numbers ... |
| Date: | 01 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Wisconsin Telephone Company's main switchboard. Thirty five operators, all women, handle all toll calls. |
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